Quality Inspector - 3Rd Shift

Title: Quality Inspector

Available Shifts: 3rd Shift (Mon-Fri, 12am-8am)

Commercial Plastics seeks a full-time Quality Inspector for our manufacturing facility in Waverly, NE. We are experiencing a tremendous amount of growth in our Waverly, NE Facility. We are an injection molding company that services the Food, Consumer Goods, Dispensers, and Appliance industries. A career with Commercial Plastics (CP) is full of opportunity to teach and learn from your colleagues, you will have plenty of chances to grow professionally. You will also enjoy a friendly, clean, and encouraging workplace, you will not just be another employee – you will be an integral member of the Team.

Essential duties and responsibilities can include, but are not limited to:

• Inspecting product to determine compliance with order specifications and company’s quality control system
• Using automated measurement equipment, comparators, micrometers, calipers, dedicated gauges, color chips and other inspection fixtures and instruments to determine product compliance to applicable standards
• Performing first piece inspections per documented procedures
• Performing in-process inspections per established schedule and documented procedures
• Assisting technicians and operators in interpretation of procedures, drawings, and accept/reject samples to determine acceptability
• Performing product containment activities which include backtracking, segregating, and tagging suspect product
• Maintaining accurate records, for example:
• Documenting accurate information electronically and/or on log sheets
• Documenting rejects in ERP system and assistance in evaluation of cause
• Notifying appropriate personnel of reject and quality issue status

Administrative Responsibilities of Quality Inspector:

• Updating documented procedures/inspection methods
• Cycle counting hold areas
• Performing test on incoming raw materials
• Flexibility of hours to meet production demands

Other General Responsibilities of Quality Assurance Inspector:

• Actively participate in company’s Quality Management System
• Maintaining a safe and clean working environment following safety procedures and policies
• Actively communicate with all team members as needed
• Complying with work requirements related to attendance and notice of absence, general conduct and following work instructions
• Monitoring and communicating material needs to support normal production activity

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one-year related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily

Required Language Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, technical drawings, and manuals
• Ability to legibly write inspection results on inspection logs, reports and correspondence
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization

Required Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry

Required Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment for Operators:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee is required to wear steel-toed shoes, eye and hearing protection when on the production floor.

Commercial Plastics is an Equal Opportunity Employer who complies with all Federal, State and Local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment.