QC Lead (2nd and 3rd shift)

Quality Control Inspector Lead
Location: Fontana, CA, 92337
Job Description

In the Quality Control Inspector Lead role, you will be responsible for supporting the Quality Control Manager and management team with the day-to-day operations of the Quality Control department employees, maintaining positive employee relations. In addition, this position will function as a back-up Quality Control Inspector as operationally necessary. In the Quality Control Inspector Lead role, you will be responsible for inspection and quality services to ensure company products and processes meet customer, company, and other specification. This role supports company initiatives, provides training and assists the Quality Control Manager and other factories in resolving quality related issues.
Responsibilities

• Comply with all quality, safety, and work rules and regulations.
• Quality Management: Assure that employees operate consistently within the policies and procedures of VPET USA INC.
• Must be able to forecast, plan and make necessary workforce adjustments/recommendations to Quality Control Manager to align with Quality Control department schedules.
• Coordinate all employee related breaks to assure appropriate QC department coverage.
• Quality Management: Assure that the team operates consistently within the policies and procedures of VPET USA INC.
• Carry out assigned task to the team to solve day-to-day operational issues and reach performance goals.
• Serve as a link between the shifts, communicating the quality assurance issues on daily quality matters such as processing hold items, item disposition, quality alerts, and NARs
• Validate the inspector's inspections; the lead will sign off the inspection reports QC006,and QC026 as second inspection validation process to ensure machines are running within the specifications.
• Create First Article Inspection Sheet and Wall Distribution Sheet.
• Provide orientation and training of new employees as assigned.
• Cross functional train with Quality Control Inspectors and Quality Control Lead Inspector responsibilities and act as the delegate in their absence.
• Prepare and present hold tags for the Quality manager review and material disposition.
• Work with other company personnel to resolve inspection questions such as status of parts in hold, certificate of conformance.
• Work with Document Control Clerk in maintaining a database of blue prints, inspection sheet and wall distribution sheet.
• Assist in orientation and training of employees as assigned.
• Evaluate problems and make initial recommendations for possible corrective action to supervisor.
• Participate in the construction and/or revision of SOPs for the inspection function.
• Provide support to production team when required.
• Visually and physically inspects materials, components, subassemblies, assemblies, tools, and final product configuration using blueprints, sketches, engineering drawings, and orders, and other applicable sources to observe, measure, record conformity to customer, regulatory, and company specifications.
• Records compliance with quality standards to verify that company products and processes meet customer, company, and other specifications.
• Solves inspection problems; methods-procedures, plans, and details.
• Audits products and processes to verify system.
• Maintains necessary inspection logs and writes inspection reports.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent required
• 2-5 years' previous mechanical inspection background with ability to use basic hand measurement tools (calipers, high gauge, micrometers, etc.) preferred. A combination of experience and education will be considered.
• Familiar with SQF 2000, HACCP, and GMP preferred
• Experience in the plastic bottle industry or in a manufacturing environment is preferred.