Packaging Quality Laboratory Technologist (Corporate)

Job Description

Job Description

Make Quality Measurable at Pretium — A Day in the Lab

At Pretium Packaging, quality is a promise we keep to our customers, consumers, and manufacturing partners. As our Packaging Quality Laboratory Technologist on the Corporate Quality team, you’ll spend your day transforming questions into verified results. You’ll calibrate instruments, prepare samples, generate objective data, and turn those findings into clear, defensible conclusions that support product qualifications, investigations, validations, and continuous improvement across our manufacturing network.

What your day looks like

• Test with purpose: Execute physical, dimensional, and functional evaluations on plastic packaging, closures, components, and raw materials—think leak, torque, drop, top‑load/compression, weight checks, precision measurements, and visual defect analysis.
• Validate performance: Confirm conformance against customer specifications, drawings, internal standards, and approved methods; document results with complete traceability.
• Plan the work: Prepare samples and manage test schedules for product qualifications, validations, customer requests, troubleshooting, and comparative/material characterization work.
• Support investigations: Partner with corporate and plant quality teams to perform root‑cause analysis on complaints, nonconformances, and process deviations; contribute data that drives corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) and verifies containment effectiveness.
• Capture the record: Maintain laboratory notebooks and electronic records; create detailed reports summarizing methods, observations, results, and conclusions; uphold document control requirements for audits and regulatory inquiries.
• Keep methods aligned: Ensure lab practices and test methods match approved procedures and industry standards; assist with internal audits and quality system assessments.
• Care for the lab: Perform routine calibration, maintenance, verification, and troubleshooting of equipment; coordinate external calibration; maintain safety, organization, and inventory; recommend process and data collection improvements.
• Collaborate broadly: Work with Operations, Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Sales, Product Development, and site quality teams; provide customer‑requested performance data and technical documentation; support supplier evaluations.
• Be there when it matters: Travel periodically to manufacturing facilities to participate in investigations, audits, validations, and training.

Standards you uphold

• ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems
• BRCGS Packaging Materials
• GMP and HACCP principles
• Customer‑specific packaging and quality requirements
• Internal procedures, work instructions, and test standards
• Environmental, Health & Safety expectations
• Applicable FDA and food‑contact packaging regulations

Your qualifications Education

• Associate degree in Quality Assurance, Chemistry, Engineering/Plastics/Manufacturing/Industrial Technology, or a related scientific field; an equivalent mix of education and relevant lab experience will be considered.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, engineering, quality, or technical discipline.

Certifications (preferred)

• ASQ CQT, CQIA, CQA
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or Green Belt

Technical capabilities

• Hands‑on experience with laboratory and inspection equipment
• Proficiency with calipers, micrometers, gauges, and optical measurement devices
• Working knowledge of statistical methods and basic data analysis
• QMS documentation practices; calibration systems; test method validation
• Fluent with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and data‑management software
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, inspection criteria, and procedures
• Preferred: familiarity with plastic packaging manufacturing processes

Soft skills

• Precision, accuracy, and strong documentation habits
• Clear written and verbal communication; ability to present to technical and non‑technical audiences
• Analytical problem‑solving and prioritization in a fast‑paced setting
• Collaborative, curious, and eager to learn new methods and technologies

Work environment

• Corporate office and laboratory setting with frequent interaction with plant quality, engineering, and operations
• Occasional travel for audits, investigations, validations, and technical support
• Hands‑on lab work: standing, lifting samples, operating test equipment, and conducting evaluations
• Periodic exposure to production, warehouse, and inspection areas within manufacturing sites

Tools & technologies you’ll use

• CAD Software
• Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
• CAM Software
• Calipers and Micrometers
• Quality Control Software