Quality Control Technician - 3rd shift

Quality Control Technician – 3rd Shift

Duties

The Quality Control Technician is a key member of CP Flexible Packaging’s manufacturing, quality management team. The role is responsible for ensuring that manufacturing processes and products meet our stringent quality specifications. This role assists the Quality Manager by helping to lead and support a staff of Quality Control Technicians, working on all shifts. The Plant runs on a 24/7 basis.

The ultimate goal of this role is to help the Plant to minimize waste, improve productivity on the production line and ensure that customers receive products that are fit for use.

Role

To prepare inspection plans and instructions, select sampling plan applications, analyze and solve problems, prepare procedures, train inspectors and perform audits.

Processes

Quality control technicians help develop processes and procedures for quality control. They decide the standards to be achieved, which may involve complying with recognized systems such as the ISO 9000 -- Quality Management system published by the International Organization for Standardization. The QCT trains inspectors to carry out checks in line with procedures and audit their work to ensure they comply with the standards. If they identify problems, they recommend improvements.

Data

Collecting the right data is essential to quality control. This role helps to define statistical techniques, determine what data needs to be collected through inspection or process monitoring, and analyze results. Interprets the data to identify problems or trends as a basis for planning remedial action.

Inspection

The Quality Control Technician may at times, personally carry out some of the inspections and/or oversee the work of quality control inspectors. This role insures that incoming raw materials, components or supplies meet agreed standards by carrying out routine inspections and rejecting unsuitable items. It also performs a wide range of controlled tests on products at various stages of the manufacturing process. Tests include visual inspection or non-destructive testing to determine conformance with the product’s specification.

Prevention

The Quality Control Technicians plan corrective and preventive actions to maintain quality standards and carry out different types of analyses, including root cause analysis and failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to identify the source of problems. QCTs prepare reports and recommendations to deal with any issues that arise.

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Benefits