Quality Inspector, 2nd Shift

Apex Consumer Products; Chaska (MN); On-site; USD 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Consumer Products in Minnesota seeks a Quality Inspector to ensure first-pass quality of vendor components via AQL inspections and odor evaluation of bulk and finished products. The role emphasizes adherence to GMP, GDP, and company SOPs while maintaining accurate inspection records.

Responsibilities include coordinating with customers, initiating non-conformances, and applying lean principles to reduce waste while managing multiple tasks in a high-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years GMP manufacturing environment experience preferred.
• Ability to multi-task and organize.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Inspections of incoming components per SOP or customer requirements (AQL).
• Inspect finished goods and packaging for conformance to customer/regulatory requirements (AQL).
• Record inspection data in the inspection database and inventory system.
• Initiate non-conformance processes to contain defective products.
• Coordinate with customers for data submission and sample submissions.

Job description

Job Purpose: To contribute to the success of our customer by ensuring first pass quality of vendor supplied components via AQL inspections and bulk and finished products via consistent and thorough odor evaluation.

Job Duties and Responsibilities: (Percentages = priority and approximate time focus)

• Ensures material inspections (incoming component) required by SOP or customer(s) are aligned to customer and regulatory requirements. 90%
• Ensures finished goods and packaging materials are in accordance with customer and Regulatory requirements per acceptable quality level (AQL).
• Ensure compliance with all applicable SOPs, Work Instructions, Test Methods, and Standard Work.
• Ensures compliance with good documentation practices (GDP).
• Accurately records all inspection data and pertinent information in inspection database and inventory system.
• Initiates non-conformance process to ensure containment and control of product not meeting requirements.
• Coordinates and communicates with customer as required (sample submission, data submission, etc.)

Understand and maintain a culture of "lean action" within the department so that we live

Lean better than any organization. 5%

• Implement and maintain standards and processes that eliminate waste throughout the department.
• Apply and utilize "lean tools" to permanently implement improvements.
• Institutionalize 5-S in all aspects of the department. (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain)

Perform other work as assigned. 5%

Direction and oversight: None.

Prior Experience

Qualification and Skill Requirements

Knowledge Requirements

0-2 years GMP manufacturing environment. Prior inspection experience preferred.

This position requires a high school diploma or equivalent. To be effective, this position requires the ability to multi-task, demonstrate a sense of urgency, and the ability to organize.

Technical Competencies

Can maintain and grow technical knowledge and expertise. Must be accurate, precise and pay attention to detail

Can be well organized and thorough in work habits.

Has working knowledge and experience with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook).

Can read and follow written work instructions and specifications.

Ability to perform inspections, review AQL data and report on results.

Must demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Able to work independently and prioritize tasks.

Able to operate measurement devices (calipers, scales, ruler, etc.)

Can read and follow specifications written in English. Can perform mathematic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using all units of measurement. Can compute rate, ratio and percent.

Licenses and Certifications

None

Certifications or required class attendance:

None required. ASQ certifications preferred.

Work Requirement

This position may require additional work hours beyond the normal workday based on the demands of the business cycle, customer volume of business, and specific sales efforts underway. It has a moderate to high demand for tight deadlines. It has a moderate to high demand for physical activity.

Physical Requirements

• Continuous (6 - 8 hours per day) standing and walking.
• Infrequent/Moderate (2-4 hours per day) bending, pushing, pulling, climbing stairs, reaching, lifting and grasping.
• Infrequent/Moderate (2-4 hours per day) repetitive motion, hand/wrist movement.
• Infrequent/Moderate (2-4 hours per day) working at a computer terminal.
• Sensory requirements: Good eyesight, normal hearing, excellent sense of smell and fluent in the English language.

Working Conditions

• Indoors, seasonally cold, hot and humid.
• Will be exposed to various fragrances which at times may be at elevated levels.
• Moving and lifting objects, sometimes 50 lbs. frequently.
• Able to work in a high paced work environment.

Work Schedule

This position usually works for 8 hours during a shift. However, hours of work are flexible and will fluctuate based on the needs of the business and the customers. The job may require a maximum of 5-20 hours of work beyond the normal 40 work-week schedule depending on work demands. The work hours can vary depending on customer requirements and staffing.

Core Purpose: To contribute to the success of our customers by helping them grow and save money.

Vision: Become the most respected, most admired, most sought after CPG contract manufacturer in the World.

Vivid Description: With our intimate knowledge of our customers we will provide products and services so valuable that we are considered an integral member of their team that they cannot live without. We will collaborate in a way that creates a tremendous competitive advantage to our customers. This competitive advantage comes from providing innovative products to the market faster than anyone, at the greatest value to the customer, and with quality that exceeds the consumer's expectations. Great customers seek us out. Our halls are filled with awards and testimonials bestowed upon us by our customers and suppliers. Our culture and environment attract the most passionate, committed, and highest achieving people in our industry. Our employees live our core values. We are proud of our accomplishments but are never satisfied with the status quo. We continuously improve in everyway, everyday.

Core Values

Customer Focused – Our success is based on customer intimacy-understanding the unique needs of each customer and providing products and services that always exceed their expectations. .

• We are passionate, intense and relentless in the pursuit of customer satisfaction.
• We have an intimate understanding of the uniqueness of each customer and what will make them successful.
• We provide products and services that each customer wants at the right price, the right quality with responsiveness and dependability.
• We make every customer experience a positive no matter the situation.
• We always put the customer first. Everything is looked at from the customer's perspective.
• We provide creative solutions that are win-win.
• We always strive to WOW the customer.

Continuous Improvement

• We use data to focus our improvement efforts and measure results.
• We use lean tools to identify waste and drive it out of the process.
• We are proactive. We anticipate problems and take corrective actions before they affect us or our customers.
• We accept nothing less than a quality product. We must always meet or exceed specifications.
• We are creative and innovative in the way we approach problem solving.

Results Culture

• We select the best.
• We accept nothing less.
• We create an environment for people to succeed.
• We are committed and accountable to our values, our objectives and our company.
• We have an urgency and passion to accomplish our goals.
• We are always ethical.
• We treat others with respect.
• We have integrity. We strive to do what we say we are going to do.
• We never give up.
• We are focused on results.

Stewardship

• We never want to "walk by" an opportunity, but instead to be alert to opportunities and evaluate them based on how they are driven by our Core Purpose and fulfill our Vision. It is by seizing the right opportunities that we "capitalize" on chances to advance our vision. Opportunities are all around us everyday both within our facilities and in the marketplace. By taking full advantage of the right ones, we are good stewards.
• We spend Apex's and our customer's money like it is our own.
• We use our resources in a way that builds trust between the company and its customers.
• We use our resources in a way that builds trust between the company and its employees.
• We look at every dollar spent and resource used as an investment that needs a return.
• We only spend or use resources when we believe that there is a return for the company and its customers.

We consider the short term impact of how we use resources and spend money but we are primarily interested in the long term affect

Salary: $20.50 per hour