2nd Shift Quality Technician

Job Summary

Alene Candles LLC & Midwest is a private label, contract manufacturer that produces high-quality candles for some of the world’s most recognized retail, boutique, and cosmetic brands. With our headquarters in New Hampshire and locations in Ohio, we’ve been in business for over 25 years. We are passionate about making the best products in the world, making safety our number one priority, and being an insanely great place to work.

The Quality Assurance Technician is an experienced QA Inspector whose primary role is to review, investigate and validate incoming raw materials, components and standards as it relates to your primary locations. The secondary role of the Quality Assurance Technician will be processing various samples for burn testing (BME, EU, 3rd party) and to fulfill customer (1st production) requirements. This person must be able to perform all the typical QA Inspector tasks as they may be called upon to assist in daily QA activities on occasion. Any production, warehouse assistance for samples/warehouse retains and sorts coordination. Covers all the jobs scope of QA Inspector & QA Incoming Inspection Tech.

3-5 Essential Job Functions

• Supports the supervisor with quality related items in a manufacturing process environment with respect to candles and home fragrance products.
• Monitors and helps verify corrective and preventive actions are effective and sustainable while maintaining product quality.
• Evaluate efficiency standards and measure performance to targets.
• Tracks, reports, conducts root cause analysis, and supports corrective actions as defined by the supervisor to maintain and improve efficiencies.
• Responsible for the BME & EU testing process, logging samples into database, and printing testing forms and ID barcodes.
• Preps samples according to customer requirements, sets up distribution to various testing facilities (internal, customer, 3rd party), and communicates the sample distribution list with various customer reps daily.
• Ensures a safe work environment by communicating safety requirements, auditing, tracking, and providing feedback and corrective actions to employees and management.
• Will collect data, maintain metrics, monitor trends, and report to supervision on the health and well-being of manufacturing.
• Perform process, line and procedural audits while challenged with improving efficiencies of line production.
• Provides additional support where needed and serve as backup coverage for senior technicians and supervisors.
• Own the WIP and Quarantine stored at site location: o maintain areas, logs, and coordinator sorts, melt, rework, and work with scheduling to purge any usable goods as fast as possible
• Will be expected to be a team member of the supervisory and management staff, chairing meetings, offering opinions, supporting initiatives, and treating co-workers with mutual respect.
• Ability to use various machines and practical skills.
• Good communication skills to deliver valuable teamwork. (Must understand English language)
• Able to follow and execute instructions.

3-5 Vital Soft Skills

Requirements

Range of Experience Required

1-2 years as a quality inspector or similar position in a manufacturing environment in which the individual was required to monitor and report on quality attributes of some product and/or process.

Education Level Required (minimum degree)

High school or equivalent; Associates Degree preferred

Physical Demands & Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or touch; reach, talk, hear and smell. The employee may be required to, kneel, crouch, sit, climb or balance. The employee may lift and/or move up to more than 50 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee may be regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, and aromas. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the physical demands and work environment.

Benefits

Alene Candles provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Should you require assistance completing this application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact recruitment@alene.com or call 614-933-4005 and ask to speak to Human Resources. We will make every effort to accommodate your needs in a reasonable amount of time.