Quality Engineer

• Pay or shift range: $85,000 USD to $102,000 USD
  The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

Grow boldly with Pretium and Build Quality into Every Process!

At Pretium Packaging, quality is more than an inspection at the end of the line—it’s built into every process, product, and partnership. We’re looking for a Plant Quality Engineer to join our Salt Lake City, Utah team and help us solve manufacturing challenges at their source, strengthen process capability, and deliver packaging our customers can rely on.

This is an a hands-on, analytical engineer who enjoys turning data into action. You’ll serve as a technical resource for structured problem solving, statistical process control, measurement systems, risk analysis, and validation. Working closely with Operations, Process Engineering, Maintenance, Tooling, Corporate Quality, and suppliers, you’ll help qualify changes, reduce variation, prevent recurring issues, and improve manufacturing performance.

This is an on-site plant role with regular plant-floor presence and consistent on-site working hours. You’ll work in a manufacturing environment where safety, quality, and teamwork are essential.

If you’re energized by finding root causes, validating solutions, and seeing your improvements make a measurable difference on the plant floor, this role is for you.

Pretium Packaging, founded in 1992, is a leading supplier of injection-blow molded plastic containers, renowned for our commitment to superior quality, value, and customer service. With 21 manufacturing facilities across North America, we provide innovative packaging solutions that meet the diverse needs of brand owners in the United States and Canada.

• Lead structured investigations into customer complaints, nonconformances, recurring defects, process failures, and adverse trends.
• Apply tools such as 5 Why, fishbone analysis, data stratification, hypothesis testing, and cause verification.
• Distinguish occurrence, escape, and systemic causes, then implement corrective actions that address verified root causes.
• Verify effectiveness through objective evidence and sustained performance data.

• Develop SPC strategies for critical product and process characteristics.
• Select appropriate control charts, rational subgrouping methods, and reaction plans.
• Analyze process capability and performance using Cp, Cpk, Pp, and Ppk where appropriate.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to translate statistical signals into timely process action.

• Plan and execute measurement system studies for gauges, test equipment, inspection methods, and attribute evaluations.
• Conduct Gauge R&R, bias, linearity, stability, resolution, and attribute agreement studies as applicable.
• Confirm measurement systems are suitable for validation, capability analysis, process control, and product acceptance.
• Improve measurement methods, fixtures, calibration practices, training, and consistency.

• Lead or support Process FMEA and related risk assessments for new and existing processes.
• Identify failure modes, effects, causes, controls, and risk-reduction priorities.
• Translate FMEA outputs into control plans, inspection standards, work instructions, maintenance requirements, and validation activities.
• Update risk assessments based on validation results, complaints, process changes, and lessons learned.

• Help qualify new or changed resins, colorants, additives,…