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3rd Shift Senior Quality Technician

Alene Candles

New Albany, ohio


Job Details

Full-time


Full Job Description

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.

Job Summary

The Quality Assurance Lead assists the QA Manager and QA Supervisor(s) in the day-to-day operations of the Quality Assurance Department on a particular shift.

3-5 Essential Job Functions

  • Assigns departmental workload and tasks in order to meet departmental goals in support of production. Assures departmental objectives and priorities are communicated to and understood by QA staff. Monitors, directs, and supports staff in support of manufacturing.
  • Tracks and reports on quality metrics within the department as assigned.
    • Tracking WIP vs Current Runs: Ensuring WIP is consumed
  • Educate QA department employees work with and understand operating procedures and established quality procedures on the shift.
  • Maintain, lead, and own 5S in cage
  • Helps maintain inspection standards to assure incoming materials, work in process, and finished products meet company and customer requirements for the shift.
  • Owner of the first pulls samples, tracking, shipping, and sign off
  • Handles document retention process & retains
  • Owns the shift change meetings
  • Model Quality behaviors and attitudes through effective problem-solving, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and recognition of the role of everyone in achieving quality first-time and every-time.
    • Process Audits on the shifts: immediate addressing of issues.
    • RCA simple problems and reports
    • Owner of the Quarantine process for their shift

Requirements

-5 Vital Soft Skills

  • Able to perform and/or instruct QA inspectors and technicians on all departmental tasks related to inspection (incoming, in-process, finished goods) as required.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work accurately, with interruptions, to meet deadlines.
  • Must be able to direct department and handle low level issues and altercations
  • Able to learn and use quality tools (SPC, root cause analysis, data capture & analysis)
  • Able to learn and use LEAN Manufacturing.
  • Excellent problem solving skills.

Range of Experience Required

1 to 3 years

Education Level Required (minimum degree)

Minimum of high school diploma; technical school or college training a plus

Additional Abilities Valuable for Success

Strong basic skills including the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as rate, ratio, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to interpret graphs and charts

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 offers a host of competitive benefits for full-time employees, some of which include: Medical, Dental, and Vision with a Healthcare Reimbursement Account, 401(k) with company match, Basic Life Insurance (100% company paid), Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Account, Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off, Tuition Reimbursement and “Alene Gives Back” – our paid volunteer program.

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.

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