Supervisor Quality Control

Quality Control Supervisor

Putnam Plastics Corporation (PPC) is the industry leading manufacture of life-saving medical devices components for over 40 years. We are looking for people who want to invest in their future, the future of PPC and our PPC community.

This position provides leadership support to the Quality Control Inspection Team, coordinates resources to provide quality control inspection support to all PPC departments requiring Quality Control support. The Quality Control Supervisor performs assessments, documentation, and organization tasks to support the efficiency and effectiveness of PPC's Quality Management System and Supply Chain.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Coordinates QC Inspection resources to include assigning appropriate personnel and inspection tools in order to support the needs of all PPC departments requiring Quality Control support.
• Provides timely and effective communication and responds to queries concerning job status, schedule changes and quality concern to all PPC departments requiring Quality Control support.
• Develops solutions to workflow issues by promoting department or interdepartmental process continuous improvement.
• Supports operations by managing other or special projects assigned.
• Safety: Works, trains and maintains department in a safety conscious manner. Ensure equipment is in working order.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Works with QC Manager daily, department Supervisors and HR in order to assist with an efficient workflow and environment setting, provide clear written and verbal instructions to group and promptly addresses any team members questions or concerns.
• Actively supports a culture of continuous improvement. Offers and supports ideas for improvement.
• Efficiently delegates task, encouraging teamwork while assigning responsibilities to team members.
• Follows policies, practices and procedures, actively work with HR regarding employee relations.
• Deals with conflict in a constructive manner.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of quality control and/or laboratory experience preferably in a manufacturing and/or medical.
• Strong leadership, organizational and people skills.
• Must possess a working knowledge of ISO and/or FDA/cGMP quality system requirements as well as good documentation practices (GDP)
• Ability to read/write understand English. Interpret documents including safety rules, operational instructions, procedure manuals engineering drawings, specifications, and geometric dimensioning and tolerances and SDS sheets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate or bachelor's degree in related technical field.
• 1-2 years of experience leading or supervising others.
• Previous experience with ISO 13485, FDA and/or CGMP
• 5+ years of quality control and/or laboratory experience, preferable in a manufacturing and/or medical organization.
• American Society of Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Inspector Certification or similar.
• Six Sigma green belt certification and/or experience with continuous improvement tools and techniques.

Physical Qualifications:

• Position requires data entry and regular use of computer/keyboard/mouse.
• Works in both manufacturing and office environments.
• Periodically overtime will be required, including weekends.
• Some travel, including between PPC owned properties, is required.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

PPC provides reasonable accommodation to employees with disabilities who meet the essential duties and responsibilities of the job.