Quality Lead

Imagine: A Career with Purpose and Possibility

Picture this:
You are part of a global team of problem-solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You are part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.

At Tekni Plex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, Tekni Plex Healthcare and Tekni Plex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.

Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.

Because at Tekni Plex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.

Tekni Plex is hiring a Quality Lead for our South Madison, WI facility. A team leader, planner, trainer, and administrator. Must continually support and demonstrate a bias for action on individual and/or employee team-based initiatives. Encourages employee participation in our improvement processes by demonstrating proactive support for team-based initiatives.

The pay range for this role is $30 - $32 per hour.

1 st Shift

Hours:

7:00am – 3:30pm Monday – Friday

Constantly accessing job requirements and addresses possible job hazards by either eliminating the hazard or through implementing a requirement for PPE or possible engineering solution.

Audits employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and guidelines.

Drive floor level safety compliance and implement safety initiatives.

Participates actively on the plant-wide safety teams.

Ensures Quality of products and processes are maintained by:

Understands and supports the quality policies, quality systems. Reports any non-conformances or high-risk quality problems to immediate supervisor.

Reject any non-conforming material

Block material uses in PRMS

Disposition

What to do with RJM

Rework or scrap material

Leads daily activities of quality area to ensure that volume, safety, and quality standards are achieved.

Responsible for the training and development of personnel.

Ensures that data collection/reporting activities within the Quality department are completed accurately and on a timely basis.

Must file all certificates in a timely manner

Ensure verifications are completed in a timely manner

Maintain and schedule calibrations on equipment with outside calibration companies.

Preparing COA (certificate of analysis) and documenting

Preparing Samples for customers if needed

Handle Urgent Requests for customers via proper communication channels

Facilitates team improvement projects such as, but not limited to:

Quality improvement- implementation of Statistical Process Control.

Compliance with Good Documentation Practice

Procedural compliance

Work with QC Manager and Technical Manager on new products, samples and issue resolution.

Additional tasks assigned by department management.

• 2-4 years' experience in Quality Technician role
• In good standing with attendance
• Demonstrated team facilitation skills and success in implementing process improvements in conjunction with employee work teams.
• Demonstrated success in continuous improvement within manufacturing as per standards.
• Must be…