Quality Control Clerk

AP&G Co., Inc.; Bayonne (NJ); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

AP&G Co., Inc. is seeking a Quality Control Clerk to join the Quality team. The role focuses on ensuring produced items meet specifications, performing multi-stage inspections, maintaining waste and inspection reports, and identifying improvements in QC methods.

The position requires attention to detail and collaboration with manufacturing personnel. The incumbent will monitor quality data, assist in inventory counts, and communicate quality or compliance concerns with urgency.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of QA/QC and manufacturing processes.
• Fluency in Spanish preferred.
• Strong mathematical concepts: fractions, ratios, and proportions.
• Ability to analyze and interpret information.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring items produced meet specifications for AP&G and customers.
• Perform inspections across production stages for raw materials and finished goods.
• Perform random inspections on inventory, returns, and imported items.
• Develop and maintain inspection and waste control reports.
• Identify QC improvement areas and implement new methods.
• Analyze data to identify potential quality issues and communicate concerns urgently.
• Compile data and compute scrap, rework, returns rates.
• Identify and resolve system or paperwork discrepancies.
• Assist in physical and cycle count inventories.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Technical capacity

Organizational skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

QA/QC knowledge

Process improvement

Spanish preferred

Data interpretation

Job description

Quality Control Clerk

Reports to: QC/Safety Manager

Summary/Objective

This person will join AP&G’s Quality team to ensure adherence of our Quality standards. AP&G’s main objective is to achieve customer satisfaction through innovative, dependable, high value products. To achieve this goal, we are committed to reviewing our customer’s satisfaction through continuously monitoring our manufacturing process, our raw materials, customer feedback, and non-conformances.

Essential Functions

• Ensuring that items produced meet AP&G and its customer specifications.
• Perform inspections across all stages of production for raw materials and finished goods.
• Perform random inspections on inventory, returns, and imported items.
• Develop and maintain inspection and waste control reports.
• Identify areas for quality control improvement and implement new methods accordingly.
• Analyzing data to identify potential quality issues and communicate quality or compliance concerns with urgency.
• Compiling data and computing percent of scrap, rework, returns, etc.
• Identifying and resolving system or paperwork discrepancies
• Assisting in physical and cycle count inventories
• Performing other duties as assigned

Competencies

• Technical capacity
• Organizational skills
• Collaboration/ Team Oriented Mindset
• Problem solving/analysis
• Communication proficiency
• Knowledge of QA/QC and manufacturing processes
• Process improvement awareness
• Fluency in Spanish preferred
• Strong working knowledge of various mathematical concepts including fractions, ratios, and proportions
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret information

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Work Environment

This position works in a manufacturing/warehouse setting and while performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration. They may also be exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment and job site can be loud. This role also uses standard equipment such as manual pallet jacks, box cutters, tape dispensers, as well as data entry in computer

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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and/or move objects up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move objects that weigh up to 50 pounds.

EEO

AP&G Co., Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. AP&G Co., Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.