Technician - Quality - B-Nights (7p-7a) at ProAmpac

Now hiring! Come work at a place to build your future and be an integral part of a fast-paced, safety-oriented, and growing industry! We are an ESSENTIAL employer that is ACTIVELY HIRING at our Westfield, MA facility!

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with comprehensive product offerings. Providing creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We are guided in our work by five core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement, and Impact.

The safety and health of our team is our top priority. ProAmpac has taken great steps to provide all personal protective equipment and sanitizing supplies to create a safe and healthy work environment for you. 

We are actively seeking a Quality Technician to join our growing team. If you are looking for a new opportunity with a leading packaging company, ProAmpac is looking for you to join our team!

What ProAmpac has to offer:

• A unique, "4 on / 4 off" schedule (work 12-hour shifts for 4 days, then get 4 days off) -- only work for half the year!
• Quarterly bonuses: perfect attendance bonus
• Premium pay built into your shift schedule.
• 11 paid company holidays
• 401k with company match
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and other supplemental offerings
• Company-provided life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Wellness program -- living a healthy lifestyle can get you a discount on your health insurance premiums AND other incentives.

Essential Duties and Tasks

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made, upon request, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Follow all safety policies and procedures.
• Responsible for in-process inspection and test verification for Quality, and Food Packaging Safety requirements.
• Responsible for documentation, sampling and quarantining of non-conforming material. Maintains other sample requirements as defined.
• Candidate must have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, effectively communicate, get along with others, positive attitude and well organized.

Equipment Used

Instron, Heat Sealers, Opacity Meter, Scales, Internal Bond Tester, Friction Peel Tester, Smoothness Tester, Mullen Tester, Stiffness Tester, Tear Tester, Color Meters, Densitometer, Caliper, Micrometers, Knives, Caustic Soda, Dyne Solutions, Pin Hole Solutions, Cutting Boards, Computer, Calculator, Ruler, Telephone. 

Work Environment

Work is primarily in a climate controlled indoor environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.  Hearing protection, safety shoes and vision protection required.  Employee is rarely exposed to non-toxic/nuisance smells from chemicals, airborne dust, moving mechanical parts, high noise levels and hot/humid environmental conditions in the manufacturing area during extremely hot summer months.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Climbing Stairs, Bending, Twisting, Reaching, Pushing, Pulling and Squatting.
• Regularly required to stand/walk on concrete floors
• Walking or standing on concrete floors.
• Lifting is minimal, occasionally up to 10 lbs.

Behaviors

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)