Quality Assurance Supervisor

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

The Plant Quality Supervisor will coordinate and supervise all Quality Assurance activities in Production and in Laboratory to assure exceptional quality product is delivered to the customer. Ensure Production Process output is in compliance with customer expectations. Responsible for quality related communication with customers. Responsible for Food Safety Management when food contact product is produced in the plant.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits 
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
• Medical, dental, vision plan
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

WHAT YOU WILL ENJOY DOING

• Ensure production compliance with all internal and customer bottle and packaging specifications.
• Measurements and Testing
  • Measures, records and reports dimensional, functional and visual attributes per internally specified requirements
  • Maintains optimum performance and internal calibration checks on quality related equipment and schedules calibration of equipment requiring outside calibration
  • Maintains measurement database integrity
• Customer Relationship Management regarding Quality issues
  • Works with production and customer to determine optimized process settings to assure specified requirements are met (specifically during sampling and product qualification process)
  • Hosts periodic customer visits
  • Manages customer complaint process under the supervision of the Plant /Operations Manager
• Quality System
  • Ensures compliance with all ISO and customer/external audit requirements
  • Prepares and successfully completes audits
• Documentation
  • Maintenance of customer product specifications
  • Development and maintenance of all internal bottle and packaging specifications
  • Monthly reporting of quality data per documented corporate procedures in EMIS
  • Owner of Root Cause Analyses Process by involving relevant departments in developing appropriate corrective action response
  • Documents and reports all supplier quality related issues per documented procedures
  • Controls and reports all nonconformance product per documented procedures
  • Ensures completion of all customer required testing
  • Reports production quality through Certificate of Compliance as specified by customer
• Monitors on-line testing through daily checks of SPC data entry of  Machine Operators
• Responsible for promoting quality mind set in all plant employees
• Responsible for the control & coordination of rework with production of all nonconforming product
• Color of bottles
  • Responsible for color matching at each start up of bottle mold
  • Responsible for obtaining & maintaining customer approved color samples for each bottle
• Responsible for Production Mold Book Process
• Ensures that a signed acceptable color sample which has been compared to approved customer sample is provided for production line at each start up by Quality Technician
• Trains and supervises all personnel performing quality testing within the quality lab and on the production floor
• Leading the Team
  • Regularly scheduled quality staff meeting
  • Ensures team works together as efficiently as possible 
  • Correctly records time and attendance of team
  • Recruits (with support of Management) and HR new employees
  • Performs disciplinary actions
  • Performs annual Performance Evaluation for quality lab technicians under guidance of Operations Manager / Plant Manager
  • Assesses training needs of staff and ensures execution of training

What Makes You Great

Performance Measurements:

• ISO Certification
• Customer and external audits
• Performance level of all quality employees

Education/Experience:

• Min 2 year Degree(Associates) in related field or equivalent
• Experience with physical lab testing equipment, calipers, scales, digital height gauge and compression force testing equipment and with Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
• Minimum of 1 year supervisory experience required, preferably in manufacturing environment

Qualifications/Skills:

• Computer literate (Excel, SPC data base, Word)
• Ability to work well with other departments
• Able to handle multi-task environment with good organizational skills

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable 
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #DAY   #SALARIED

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.