Quality Systems Technician

By joining the Morris Packaging team, you will become part of one of the most exciting teams in the packaging industry. If you are looking for a great career that provides job satisfaction and professional advancement with a company that values YOU, join our team today!

The Quality Systems Technician position is an 8-hour shift Monday through Friday working in our state-of-the-art, climate-controlled facility, with the opportunity for voluntary overtime and, at times, may require overtime beyond the normal workday. As a Quality Systems Technician, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with implementing Morris Packaging’s and customers quality standards, following quality control best practices, providing guidance, adhering to quality control policies, actively participating in resolving production and customer issues and offering support to all areas of production, safely, efficiently, and accurately.

• Support the Quality Engineer in CAPA activities by participating in CAPA audits and leading the implementation of preventive actions to ensure nonconformances do not recur.
• Support the development and revision of SOPs and lead document control initiatives to ensure compliance with applicable standards.
• Monitor product quality of each department. Ensure deficiencies are caught and corrected.
• Report quality deficiencies and communicate those deficiencies to operators, department & shift leads, shift supervisors and other quality control technicians.
• Flag, document and quarantine defective material. This includes moving defective products to the designated area and ensuring all nonconforming material is tracked to the origination point of defect and recorded.
• Follow up on holds. Gather required information, such as gathering samples, cutting down rolls, etc. and communicate disposition to necessary parties.
• Request corrected tags from accounting.
• Enter Vendor claims. Gather necessary samples for vendor along with credit requests and follow up, as necessary.
• Assign internal customer and external (supplier) Corrective Actions.
• Obtain first run sample, make proper folders and files.
• Create labels, run copies of master’s, and keep QA file organized.
• Ability to perform internal audits for SQF of other departments in the facility.
• Responsible for banding materials to pallet to ensure safety when moved.
• Ability to run the laboratory equipment as needed for testing. This includes computers, COF tester, micrometer, gloss meter, tear tester and all other in-house quality control equipment.
• Monitor calibration log to see when calibration of equipment is needed and arrange for internal or external calibration.
• Maintain positive working relationships with team members, production staff and visiting customers and suppliers.
• Direct, coach and train new and current quality control technicians.
• Schedule quality control technicians’ workload and machine assignments.
• Create training tools, procedures and policies and provide training to necessary parties.
• Assist and verify color standards at press and with supplier samples using X-rite equipment.
• Verify print copy to the customers’ approved artwork via GMG or the AX system.
• Gather/retain samples and verify that they are the current revision and have passed quality standards. File samples in the designated location.
• Ensure color standards are consistent throughout the entire run from including shift to shift, roll to roll and production run to production run.
• Ability to read and understand a die line (blueprint) of a bag.
• Ability to take direction and follow the Quality Engineer’s requests.
• Attend scheduled meetings when Quality Engineer is unable to attend.
• Provide supplemental quality support and assume additional responsibilities, as needed, to support the Quality Engineer.

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• A minimum of five years of relevant quality assurance or quality systems experience is required, preferably in a food manufacturing setting. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Excellent computer skills with expertise in Microsoft Excel.
• Must be able to read standard measuring tape (imperial or…