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Quality Engineer is responsible for the continual improvement of quality performance through analysis, reports, and team-based improvement activities with production and quality groups.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY:
Responsible for reporting food safety issues to personnel with authority to initiate action. Initiate action for food safety issues.
Collaborate with Quality Leads and Production group to improve quality performance and customer satisfaction, including reducing complaints, internal hold activity, scrap and process variation.
Actively participate in daily Production meeting to review Quality and Process performance.
Generate necessary data and reports for customers, vendors, and internal departments. Lead quality initiatives to remove process-related reactive costs.
In coordination with Quality Leads and Production group investigate customer complaints associated with product quality and lead the development of root cause analyses, DOE, or 8D programs to produce effective corrective actions and implement process controls.
Analyze data and process specifications to determine improvement opportunities.
Participate in and/or lead Root Cause Analysis focus teams. Actively participate in supplier quality initiatives.
Has the authority to place product on hold, release hold product, make process changes, shut down machines and start machines.
Performs other duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's degree in a related science/technology discipline, or relevant work experience and background.
Excellent project management with analytical, problem-solving, decision-making skills.
Ability to drive results across multi-departmental areas.
Strong interpersonal skills, highly organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented.
Understanding of process improvement concepts in team-oriented environment, such as DOE, FMEA, 8D, Root Cause Analysis, SPC, and other analytical problem-solving/continuous improvement tools.
Competence in the use of computers and operating systems with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
Experience in quality systems and mechanical systems preferred.
| Position | Quality Engineer |
| Job Category | Engineering |
| Industry Type | Plastic Manufacturing |
| Location of Job | Ottumwa, IA |
| Salary | NS |
| Last Date to Apply | 08 December 2016 |
Plastipak Packaging is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of plastic rigid containers of the highest quality. Plastipak supports manufacturing operations throughout the United States, South America and Europe.
A Business Based on Ethical Standards
Plastipak operates by meeting expectations for ethical conduct as well as financial goals — all without compromising its integrity. Indeed, we have built a global business culture based on honor, openness and inclusion.As Plastipak expanded to include locations on three continents, respect for human dignity has remained fundamental to how the company conducts its business. We actively participate in the communities in which Plastipak associates work and live.With suppliers and customers in agreement, Plastipak works to meet high conservation standards while enhancing the health and safety of its employees and communities.Plastipak has aligned both its business and sustainability practices to create a culture of inclusion for associates throughout the company's international operations.
Supportive Environment
The Workplace
Plastipak's most important resource is our associates.
Plastipak operates with an appreciation for individual contributions and innovation. Plastipak associates contribute to:
Plastipak does the following for associates:
Open Communication
Mutually respectful and trusting relationships require open communication. Each associate must feel free to communicate opinions, share ideas and resolve problems in an environment that encourages and promotes opportunities for success and professional growth.Plastipak actively promotes open and honest communication as demonstrated by the company's “Open Line Communication System.” This system allows an associate to ask a question or voice a concern confidentially via the Corporate Talent Management Department.
Our Global Initiatives Thrive on Effective Management
As global producers of plastic containers, we have a responsibility from design to disposal to meet sustainability demands. Our sustainability initiatives are guided by a Bottle to Bottle approach to recycling.Plastipak holds itself accountable to stakeholders to run operations in an environmentally friendly manner for current and future generations. We have made that goal an inseparable part of our business plan.
Protecting the Environment
The impact of climate change and the threat to the environment from pollutants are too big to ignore, and Plastipak is doing everything possible to protect the future of the planet.The company is committed to social responsibility for environmental guardianship and its leadership in sustainability. Plastipak is meeting the goals set by the company's formal conservation plan.
Under this plan Plastipak has initiated a program to reduce compressed air leakage throughout all of our U.S. operations, achieve greater fuel economy, reduce volatile emissions and expand lightweighting programs to reduce the amount of plastic in each container. Plastipak engineers its source materials, technologies, transportation, distribution and recycling scenarios to fit customer sustainability requirements as well.
Sustainability Means Engagement
Engagement is important to Plastipak. By engaging the hearts and minds of associates, Plastipak creates unique and sustainable packaging solutions for its customers. Consumers and corporations alike must be engaged in order to sustain the planet's resources.Such unified engagement has powerful, long-reaching effects. Participation in conservation initiatives has a positive impact on the economic, human and natural environments.
Clean Tech's recycling processes focus on the effective management of the life cycle of plastic containers. Clean Tech’s highly qualified engineers design unique technologies to maximize plastic’s beneficial features throughout a product's life cycle and its subsequent lives as recycled material.
Clean Tech engineers follow company directives to reduce material use and weight, where feasible, which in turn yields lower energy and transportation costs. High material production standards are always met to ensure that recycled materials can stand up to quality package demands for maintaining product freshness.
Making Good Use of Recycled Materials
Plastipak uses the inherent resilience of plastics as a key resource for developing sensible, environmentally-friendly packaging lines.Plastics are flexible, durable and endlessly recyclable, permitting limitless use and reuse. The recyclable nature of plastics opens the way for Plastipak to construct its manufacturing to help reclaim bottles rather than only creating new plastics.Clean Tech provides the critical component of this system with its capability of recycling HDPE and PET bottles to produce highly useful post consumer materials.
We Reuse Our Own Recycled Materials
Plastipak's commitment to using renewable and recyclable materials along with reduced content is at the heart of its sustainability initiative. The company manufactures an array of containers for both food and non-food products using recycled plastic produced by Clean Tech. For instance, Clean Tech recycled material replaces at least 10% of the plastic content for a line of beverage bottles.
| Experience | Experience in quality systems and mechanical systems preferred. |
| Qualification | Bachelor's degree in a related science/technology discipline, or relevant work experience and background. |
| Contact Name | HR |
| Contact Email | erecruiting[at]plastipak.com |
| Website | http://www.plastipak.com/ |
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