The Quality Analyst supports manufacturing quality and food safety by implementing quality procedures, conducting product and process inspections, and driving preventative actions to reduce nonconforming product. This position partners with Site Quality, Process Leaders, Corporate Quality, Research and Development, and Manufacturing to maintain product quality, validate process changes, and ensure compliance with regulatory and customer requirements. Provides analytical support through production testing, quality audits, trend analysis, and corrective action monitoring. Contributes to continuous improvement by identifying quality risks, supporting manufacturing teams, and helping ensure products consistently meet established quality and food safety standards.
You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!
Quality Assurance & Manufacturing Support
- Apply knowledge of product testing purposes, methods, and equipment established in Product Quality Plans to evaluate product quality and support manufacturing processes.
- Develop and maintain production test data collection sheets to support consistent quality monitoring and analysis.
- Maintain complete and accurate inspection and test records in accordance with Product Quality Plans and established quality policies and procedures.
- Conduct regular audits of quality checks, documentation, production conditions, and lock detectors; communicate findings and monitor trends.
- Perform online and inventory product audits based on process performance and customer complaints to identify quality concerns and prevent nonconforming product.
- Conduct acceptance quality limit (AQL) inspections of incoming components, raw materials, production processes, finished products, and imported products as required.
- Participate in import container inspections, sample imported products, and document inspection results in accordance with established requirements.
- Prepare certificates of conformance, certificates of analysis, and other customer-required inspection documentation accurately and timely.
Process Validation & Continuous Improvement
- Plan, organize, analyze, and review production part approval processes (PPAPs) to validate process changes and new products before production release.
- Conduct product layout inspections, develop sampling plans, perform product testing, analyze results, and complete supporting documentation to validate product and process requirements.
- Analyze quality performance, product holds, corrective action requests, and supplier defects to identify trends and communicate findings.
- Perform or participate in determining the disposition of nonconforming product and support established product hold processes.
- Analyze production test data and support problem-solving initiatives to improve manufacturing processes and product quality.
Food Safety & Regulatory Compliance
- Maintain compliance with applicable Safe Quality Food (SQF) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) requirements to support safe food packaging products.
- Establish, maintain, and audit plant GMP compliance in accordance with regulatory and customer requirements.
- Prepare and distribute monthly GMP audit reports, monitor corrective actions, and participate in third-party GMP and SQF audits as requested.
- Report food safety concerns to personnel with the authority to take appropriate action.
- When assigned, lead the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) team and manage the HACCP program, including the development, implementation, and maintenance of the facility food safety plan.
- When assigned as an HACCP team member, participate in the development, implementation, and review of the facility food safety plan.
- When assigned as the SQF Practitioner, oversee the development, implementation, review, and maintenance of the SQF System, including food safety fundamentals and the HACCP plan.
- Validate and verify food safety programs, communicate requirements to personnel, and validate changes that may affect the facility's ability to deliver safe food products.
- When assigned as the SQF Practitioner backup, fulfill the site SQF Practitioner responsibilities as needed.
- Support product withdrawal and recall activities, including mock recalls and actual product withdrawals or recalls.
- When assigned, collect water samples from profile and/or cast-integral lines to evaluate microbial growth and free chlorine.
Training & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Assist with quality training for new and existing employees, including established quality procedures and inspection methodologies.
- Maintain quality training records to support employee qualification and documentation requirements.
- Partner with Quality, Process Leaders, Corporate Quality, Research and Development, and Manufacturing to support quality system implementation and preventative actions.
- Serve as a resource to manufacturing teams by providing quality guidance and support for manufacturing processes.
You Will Love It Here If…
- You put safety first, always
- You listen, learn, and evolve
- You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
- You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity
- You are committed to improving our impact on local communities