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In the Quality Control Inspector Lead role, you will be responsible for supporting the Quality Control Manager and management team with the day-to-day operations of the Quality Control department employees, maintaining positive employee relations. In addition, this position will function as a backup Quality Control Inspector as operationally necessary. In the Quality Control Inspector Lead role, you will be responsible for inspection and quality services to ensure company products and processes meet customer, company, and other specifications. This role supports company initiatives, provides training, and assists the Quality Control Manager and other factories in resolving quality-related issues.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Comply with all quality, safety, and work rules and regulations.
- Quality Management: Assure that employees operate consistently within the policies and procedures of VPET USA LLC.
- Must be able to forecast, plan, and make necessary workforce adjustments/recommendations to the Quality Control Manager to align with Quality Control department schedules.
- Coordinate all employee-related breaks to ensure appropriate QC department coverage.
- Quality Management: Assure that the team operates consistently within the policies and procedures of VPET USA LLC.
- Carry out assigned tasks to the team to solve day-to-day operational issues and reach performance goals.
- Serve as a link between the shifts, communicating the quality assurance issues on daily quality matters such as processing hold items, item disposition, quality alerts, and NARs
- Validate the inspector’s inspections; the lead will sign off the inspection reports QC006, and QC026 as the second inspection validation process to ensure machines are running within the specifications.
- Create the First Article Inspection Sheet and Wall Distribution Sheet.
- Provide orientation and training of new employees as assigned.
- Cross-functional train with Quality Control Inspectors and Quality Control Lead Inspector responsibilities and act as the delegate in their absence.
- Prepare and present hold tags for the Quality manager review and material disposition.
- Work with other company personnel to resolve inspection questions such as the status of parts on hold, and certificate of conformance.
- Work with the Document Control Clerk in maintaining a database of blueprints, inspection sheets, and wall distribution sheets.
- Assist in orientation and training of employees as assigned.
- Evaluate problems and make initial recommendations for possible corrective action to the supervisor.
- Participate in the construction and/or revision of SOPs for the inspection function.
- Provide support to the production team when required.
- Visually and physically inspects materials, components, subassemblies, assemblies, tools, and final product configuration using blueprints, sketches, engineering drawings, and orders, and other applicable sources to observe, measure, record conformity to customer, regulatory, and company specifications.
- Records compliance with quality standards to verify that company products and processes meet customer, company, and other specifications.
- Solves inspection problems; methods-procedures, plans, and details.
- Audits products and processes to verify the system.
- Maintains necessary inspection logs and writes inspection reports.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and/or Experience:
- High School diploma or equivalent required
- 2-5 years’ previous mechanical inspection background with the ability to use basic hand measurement tools (calipers, high gauge, micrometers, etc.) preferred. A combination of experience and education will be considered.
- Familiar with SQF 2000, HACCP, and GMP preferred
- Experience in the plastic bottle industry or in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
Other skills and abilities:
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, set priorities, identify, and address problems, and meet deadlines.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Effective teamwork, interpersonal, and leadership skills to coach and mentor others in daily quality matters.
- Good verbal communication skills to inform about findings
- Excellent written and communication skills with the ability to write simple correspondence with proper grammar, syntax, spelling and punctuation.
- Computer skills to include Microsoft Office Suite programs. Must be able to use computer programs at an intermediate level to keep track of administrative tasks such as report writing, analysis of work orders, evaluations of First Articles, etc.
- Ability to work overtime and weekends as required.
- Must be available for after-hour calls for critical issues (minimal occurrence).
- Must be committed to the success of the entire organization.
Physical Requirements:
Requirements include, but are not limited to:
- Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged periods of time.
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.
- Must be able to push, pull, twist, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, and crawl.
- Must be able to perform repetitive motions such as reaching and grasping.
- Must be able to use a ladder or step ladder during the course of work.
- Works in both an office environment and warehouse. Warehouse temperatures inside are affected by the outside conditions.
- This is a fast-paced environment with constantly changing priorities.
