Off-Shift Quality Control Technician

About Vibrantz Technologies

Vibrantz Technologies ("Vibrantz" or "Company") is a leading global provider of specialty chemicals and materials solutions whose purpose is to bring color, performance and vibrancy to life. Every day, our employees, the products we make, and our valued customer partnerships are inspired by this purpose. Serving customers globally, our innovations are trusted in a variety of advanced materials, color solutions and performance coatings applications to enhance the hue, functionality, safety and environmental footprint of everyday consumer products. Our key competencies in particle engineering, glass and ceramic science and color technology enable benefits like more durable vehicles and batteries, easier-to-clean appliances, energy efficient roof tiles and bricks, stronger and more decorative glass, and eco-friendly paints. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Vibrantz has over 60 manufacturing facilities and sales offices on six continents and employs roughly 4,000 individuals. We are building a strong, shared culture that is rooted strongly in our six core values that focus on safety, our people, customers, excellence in all we do, environmental stewardship, and integrity, ethics, and trust. And we are intent upon fostering a workplace that engages employees' heads, hands and - uniquely - their hearts.

Vibrantz is owned by American Securities, a leading U.S. private equity firm that invests in market-leading North American companies with annual revenue generally ranging from $200 million to $2 billion and / or $50 million to $200 million of EBITDA. American Securities and its affiliates have approximately $23 billion under management and are based in New York with an office in Shanghai.

For more information, please visit www.vibrantz.com and www.american-securities.com.

Job Function

Reporting into the Quality Control Manager, the Off-Shift Quality Control Technician will be based out of our Ashtabula, OH site and will be responsible for safe behavior; a neat, clean and orderly workplace; the testing of production batches against designated product specifications; recommending in-process adjustments to production batches; the evaluation of incoming raw materials; any duties that support these activities and inform and promote a perspective and attitude of continuous improvement.

Schedule :

This position will begin at 6 : 00 pm and finish at 6 : 30 am (12 hours paid per day). The schedule will be a repeating 14-day schedule : Week one the candidate will work three 12-hour shifts (36 hours), and the following week will work four 12-hour shifts (48 hours). The potential for voluntary overtime exists as well.

Responsibilities

• Complies with safety rules and regulations, attends safety meetings and training, inspects work area for hazards / deficiencies and initiates action to correct them. Also reports injury / illness and / or environmental incidents, including completion of incident reports.
• Testing product properties and recommending in-process adjustments, when needed, to meet specifications.
• Confirming certain proposed in-process adjustments by bench work prior to writing the adjustment order.
• Conformance to the site Business Management System (BMS) training documents and work instructions.
• Entering of Quality Control (QC) test data into the QC database
• Complying with site safety rules and regulations, actively participating in safety meetings, training, work area inspections for hazards / deficiencies and initiating actions to correct them.
• Housekeeping of the QC area, common and otherwise.
• Routine maintenance and calibration of equipment in the QC area, and any relevant equipment outside the QC area.
• A variety of rotating duties, including replenishment of needed QC supplies.
• Other duties as assigned by Manager.

Required Experience

Location

Ashtabula, OH

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