ProAmpac

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Description

Sr. Quality Technician

Salary Range: $22.00 - $24.00/hour

Hours: Monday - Friday 6 am - 2 pm

Position Overview: ProAmpac in Cary, IL is looking for a Sr. Quality Technician - on the 1st shift, to join the team and make an impact. Enjoy a Monday through Friday work week and start an exciting career with a global company!

Essential Duties and Tasks

About the company:

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with a comprehensive product offering. We provide creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We continue to grow and would love for you to join our team!

At ProAmpac, our culture is key to our long-term success. We strive to be authentic as we live out the heritage of our small business culture. We value the connections we’ve created, and our employees feel empowered in their shared efforts to innovate successfully. ProAmpac was founded on the idea that a focus on material science will drive innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers, supported by our five core values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement, and Impact – that foster a culture of speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

Our company is made stronger by challenging ourselves and each other, while we move what matters forward. With a focus on performance and a passion for our work, we are not bound by organizational hierarchy. We are committed to serving our customers and the communities in which we work and live.

By joining us, you become an integral part of an entrepreneurial company in a fast-paced, exciting environment that provides varied opportunities for professional and personal growth.

ProAmpac Perks:

ProAmpac is building a wellness culture through its PRO360 initiative: An interactive, fully integrated wellbeing program designed to engage, encourage, and reward all team members on their personal pathway to better health, wealth, growth, and community involvement. Our goal is to ensure 100% of team members achieve a basic level of wellness. Additionally, subject to applicable eligibility requirements, we offer full-time employees a variety of benefits including:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(K) with exceptional company match
• Generous paid time off (PTO), plus 11 holidays per calendar year
• Free life and short-term disability insurance
• Wellness, employee discount and rewards programs
• Tuition reimbursement

Essential Duties and Tasks:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made, upon request, to ensure individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist Quality Leader in maintaining the Quality Management System (QMS) and Food Safety System (FSS) by being the liaison between quality and the operations team regarding processes ensuring the appropriate procedures are being followed
• Receive in RA’s and create rework plans for the facility
• Work with Operations and Technical on customer feedback/complaints
• Disposition non-conforming materials on the production lines to ensure adherence to the quality system
• Act as the back-up SQF practitioner and food safety champion for the facility
• Responsible for reviewing job jackets for completeness and follows established good documentation practices (GDP)
• Work with the operations team on resolving customer complaints, determining root cause and corrective actions, ensuring these plans are being followed, and validating the action as correcting the issues
• Spearhead corrective action implementation and validation
• Responsible for managing the flow of non-conforming materials, both WIP and Raw materials providing disposition within a reasonable amount of time and conveying that information to the appropriate personnel
• Manage lab instrument calibration system
• Coordinate environmental testing
• Perform on-floor internal audits
• Conduct testing in materials
• Responsible for audits of production around cGMP, food safety and quality documentation.
• Assist in maintaining quality documentation including procedures and forms
• Identify and report trends regarding quality issues to the Quality Leader
• Back-up to Quality Leader in their absence
• Performs other duties as needed by ProAmpac Management

Requirements:

• Comply with all ProAmpac Safety, Quality, Operational and Employment policies and practices
• Day to day compliance with food safety and prerequisite programs
• Report and help resolve food safety concerns
• Remove from operation any machine deemed unsafe and immediately notify management
• Adhere to all Quality principles as outlined in our Quality System to ensure efficient production of a quality product on a day-to-day basis
• Operate in a manner that will reduce waste and optimize usable production
• Halt manufacturing processes and immediately notifying management of any safety, material, equipment or technical non-conformance
• Participate with co-workers and supervisors in addressing problem areas, planning methods and operating procedures
• Identify and record quality related problems, initiate action to prevent nonconformance, and recommend solutions
• Control the further processing of materials until any deficiency is corrected

BACK-UP Quality Technician or Quality Leader

Key Competencies:

• Ethical Conduct
• Quality Technology, Packaging Technology or related experience
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Creative and critical thinking
• Ability to work with laboratory and testing equipment, collect data and facts to present in a meaningful manner
• Understanding of industry equipment is preferred

Physical Demands/Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment 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.

Employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to identify and distinguish colors. Close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Employee is occasionally exposed to non-toxic/nuisance smells from chemicals, airborne dust, moving mechanical parts, high noise levels and hot/humid environmental conditions in the manufacturing area during extremely hot summer months.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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