Quality Supervisor

LPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

• Ensure production compliance with all internal and customer bottle and packaging specifications.
• Measurements and Testing
  • Measures, records and reports dimensional, functional and visual attributes per internally specified requirements
  • Maintains optimum performance and internal calibration checks on quality related equipment and schedules calibration of equipment requiring outside calibration
  • Maintains measurement database integrity
• Customer Relationship Management regarding Quality issues
  • Works with production and customer to determine optimized process settings to assure specified requirements are met (specifically during sampling and product qualification process)
• Quality System
  • Ensures compliance with all ISO and customer/external audit requirements
• Documentation
  • Maintenance of customer product specifications
  • Development and maintenance of all internal bottle and packaging specifications

• Leading the Team
  • Regularly scheduled quality staff meeting
  • Ensures team works together as efficiently as possible 
  • Correctly records time and attendance of team
  • Recruits (with support of Management) and HR new employees
  • Performs disciplinary actions
  • Performs annual Performance Evaluation for quality lab technicians under guidance of Operations Manager / Plant Manager
  • Assesses training needs of staff and ensures execution of training

Performance Measurements:

• ISO Certification
• Customer and external audits
• Performance level of all quality employees

Education/Experience:

• Min 2 year Degree(Associates) in related field or equivalent
• Experience with physical lab testing equipment, calipers, scales, digital height gauge and compression force testing equipment and with Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
• Minimum of 1 year supervisory experience required, preferably in manufacturing environment

Qualifications/Skills:

• Computer literate (Excel, SPC data base, Word)
• Ability to work well with other departments
• Able to handle multi-task environment with good organizational skills

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.