Quality Assurance Technician

Quality Assurance Technician - Starting at $25.05/hour

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Graham Packaging is a people, planet and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life. For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here. At Graham, we are united by a clear vision.

We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce.

We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth.

Graham Packaging Company has a new job opening for a Quality Assurance Technician based in Port Allen, LA.

• Weekly pay starting at $25.05 per hour.
• Benefits effective on day one:
  Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k) with match.

Quality Technicians are responsible for attaining and maintaining standards of quality for bottles as defined by drawings, product specifications, and quality assurance procedures. Assist in the training of new personnel on the importance of quality and leadership. Responsible for monitoring the quality of finished product and packaging at start-up and qualifications, both before and after packing. The primary duties of a Quality Technician include:

• Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Communicate about quality with supervisors, managers, other shifts and departments verbally and through written documents according to plant practice.
• Setup and maintain product files in the Infinity QS data collection system for input of variable/attribute data by QA, production and maintenance personnel.
• Develop and analyze statistical data, control charts and product specifications to determine present standards and establish proposed quality and reliability expectancy of finished product.
• Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and other related activities as assigned.
• Create and implement inspection criteria and procedures.
• Maintain quality inspection procedures.
• Complete written documentation and forms as required.
• Coordinate and manage the held ware and rework processes.
• Coordinate quality activity with other departments to achieve plant objectives in compliance with plant procedures.
• Coordinate quality control training for employees engaged in inspection and testing activities to ensure continuous control over materials and products.
• Play an active role on teams within organization.
• Assist in customer complaints investigation and corrective action process.
• Assure operators and PMT leads are following procedures to conduct tests and inspections.
• Change over challenge test samples during product change overs.
• Assist all plant personnel support of Infinity and quality reporting systems.
• Conduct and participate on gage R&R studies.
• Conduct process audits and finished goods for every machine and report any visual defect for correction and trace back audits.
• Complete product qualifications first articles test as required after mold/color change, and assist with new product approvals (PQP’s).
• Ability to analyze statically process charts (SPC) and…