What you will enjoy doing

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oral, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.
Support Alpla North America Integrated Management and Quality Assurance systems through projects and initiatives in the regional Quality Department. Responsible for providing quality related support to all plants in Alpla North America.
Quality System

• Support plant to ensure compliance with all ISO 9001 quality management system, FSSC 22000 food safety management system, and other standards & regulations
• Assists in hazard analysis and HACCP program for food product
• Prepares and successfully completes internal, customer and external audit requirements

Measurement and Test Systems

• Work with plant to optimize lab & inline measurement and test systems
• Train plant personnel on test and measurement systems
• Maintains calibration standards on all quality related equipment
• Monitors on-line testing through daily checks of SPC data entry of Machine Operators

Mold Approvals

• Assist plant in mold qualifications and verification assessments during production runs

Customer & Internal Quality Issues

• Assist plants in analyzing quality issue trends
• Review customer scorecards and assist plants to implement improvements
• Works with production and customer to determine optimized process settings to assure specified requirements are met (specifically during sampling and product qualification process)

Quality and Continuous Improvement Projects

• Lead and assist in Quality Department projects regarding quality and continuous improvement
• Lead NEXT (Alpla global CIP program) implementation for plant

What makes you great

Education/Experience:

• B.S. (Industrial Engineering preferred, other science or technical degrees will be considered) with 1-2 years of relevant experience or recent graduate.
• Some experience in a high volume manufacturing or lab environment preferred
• Some work experience in Quality Assurance
• Experience with physical lab testing equipment, calipers, scales, digital height gauge and compression force testing equipment
• Strong statistical knowledge. Six Sigma Green Belt (desirable)
• Knowledge of Project Management and experience leading projects (ideal)

Qualifications/Skills:

• Computer proficiency (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, SPC and/or MiniTab)
• Ability to work well with other departments and plants, and lead small teams.
• Able to handle multi-task environment with excellent organizational skills.

What you can expect working with us

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.
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.