QA Engineer TC

ALPLA McDonough SVC/TC 289 Highway 155 S South Access McDonough, GA 30253, USA

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.

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
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

What You Will Enjoy Doing

Main Responsibilities:

• Provides Quality Engineering support for product development in Technical Center
• Provides fresh sample testing data in a timely and accurate manner
• Performs statistical analysis and reports for dimensional, functional and visual attributes using Quality tools and programs such as Minitab to deliver to project teams
• Writes CMM programs and trains QA techs on writing, debugging, troubleshooting CMM programs and measurement systems
• Responsible for reviewing all data measured by QA Techs for accuracy; determines root cause of abnormalities & out of specification results, conduct FMEA using quality engineering methods
• Works with Packaging Management and Process Technician Teams on QA related qualification procedures for new product implementation in the TC internal as well as external ALPLA production sites
• Understands EBM/ISBM technologies along with DFM (Design of Manufacture & Design of Experimentation)
• Understands tolerance stack analysis and applies Quality engineering principles and provides feedback to Design, PDM and Process teams
• Performs quality related tasks of a product qualification procedure at ALPLA production sites
• Performs color analysis using color analysis software
• Supports advanced troubleshooting for testing equipment and related programming issues at production sites
• Writes/verifies testing procedures for new methods to be used at the TC (internal) and at production sites (external)
• Performs Department and Process Audits (Experience with ISO and FSSC 22000 Regulatory Compliance or Equivalent)
• Assist with Managing and Monitoring QATC KPIs and SPC Systems
• Manage & Support CAPA and RCA Process
• ISO
  9001 & ISO 22000 Implementation and Support with Audit Program
• DOE (Design of Experimentation) development for New Samplings, New Test Methods (Internally and Externally requested), and CAPAs (Corrective and Preventative Actions)

What Makes You Great

Education:

• Minimum 4-year Degree (Bachelors) in related field or equivalent, required

Experience:

• 5–8 years of experience in quality field, required

Skills:

• Ability to work well in team environment
• Experience with physical lab testing equipment, including calipers, scales, digital height gauge and compression force testing equipment
• Able to handle multi-task environment with good organization skills
• May be required to work overtime
• Computer and math skills
• Statistical knowledge

Certifications/Licenses:

• Internal or External ISO Auditing Certification/Certificate, ASQ QE Certificate or Equivalent

Other Requirements:

• Understanding of Minitab or Equivalent Data Analytics Software (Intermediate to Advance Level of Excel (Pivot tables, VBA, Macros, Formulas) experience acceptable), understanding of SPC Software
• Travel up to 10%

Physical Demands:

• 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 regularly 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).

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity…