What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Control Inspector 12 position at Ardagh Group?
The QC Inspector is responsible for performing types of inspection as assigned within the plant including gauge and instrument inspection of materials goods in process and finished product.
Key Accountabilities
Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) is a leading supplier of sustainable, infinitely recyclable metal beverage cans to brand owners globally. An operating business of sustainable packaging business Ardagh Group, AMP is a leading industry player across Europe and the Americas, with innovative production capabilities, 23 production facilities, more than 6,000 employees and recorded revenues of $4.8 billion in 2023.
AMP is 76%-owned by Ardagh Group and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMBP.
About Ardagh Group
Ardagh Group is a global supplier of infinitely recyclable metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for brand owners around the world. We have grown to a team of approximately 20,000 people with revenues of more than $9 billion. Today we have a presence across the Americas, Europe and Africa.
Key Accountabilities
- Understands and complies with position related safety, SOPs, and work instructions especially for Lockout-Tagout, Chemical Handling, Machine Guarding, Housekeeping, SQF, ISO, and Personal Protective Equipment.
- Monitors the production process at prescribed intervals to inspect the process product characteristics according to established quality control procedures.
- Inspect in-process and finished product with the use of prescribed laboratory equipment, gauges, and instruments and compares the results to the established specifications.
- Expected to read and record various process data into prescribed forms or charts.
- Verify through inspection and tests, the adherence to established specification of incoming materials, in-process product, and finished product including packaging.
- Generate action which will prevent the use of materials in the process that do not meet and conform to established specifications or have not been approved for usage.
- Verify that only approved materials, labels etc. are used in the process.
- Expected to inform maintainers and supervisors of specific quality problems and suggest possible causes or facts which will aid in their corrections and assist production personnel whenever possible.
- Perform routine checks and maintain test equipment through preventive maintenance programs prescribed by the Quality Control dept.
- Maintain work area clean and orderly.
- Direct and assist in sorting segregated and questionable material that is out of specifications and perform detailed visual inspection where considerable judgment is required to determine quality of product and limits are not clearly defined.
- Examine product, remove defectives, and place acceptable product back into line.
- Record related data as required.
- Maintain color standards and prepare run standards.
- Perform gauge maintenance, gauge verifications, gauge R and R.
- Validate printer changeovers and label changes.
- Ensure standards are in place and can meets requirements.
- Validate date codes and UPC.
- Perform camera and light tester verification, including making test cans and finding HFI cutoffs.
- Perform resampling and product segregation. Perform additional quality checks as required or directed and internal audits of quality checks.
- Operate equipment and assist production as directed.
- Familiar with Personal Protective Equipment, hand tools, and proper handling of chemicals and solvent.
- Ability to use and understand gauges and measurement tools.
- Experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment preferred minimum 1 years’ experience in a quality role.
- Basic computer skills, detailed oriented.
- Able to work 12 hour/4 day week rotating shift.
- Successfully complete pre-employment drug test and background check.
- Able to stand for a long duration of time.
- Able to bend over and rotate body repeatedly.
- Able to lift 40 pounds; push/pull up to 75 pounds.
- Exposure to heat, cold, vibrations, odors/fumes and loud noise.
- High School diploma or GED.
- A passing score on a combined basic skills assessment, given at the facility.
Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) is a leading supplier of sustainable, infinitely recyclable metal beverage cans to brand owners globally. An operating business of sustainable packaging business Ardagh Group, AMP is a leading industry player across Europe and the Americas, with innovative production capabilities, 23 production facilities, more than 6,000 employees and recorded revenues of $4.8 billion in 2023.
AMP is 76%-owned by Ardagh Group and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMBP.
About Ardagh Group
Ardagh Group is a global supplier of infinitely recyclable metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for brand owners around the world. We have grown to a team of approximately 20,000 people with revenues of more than $9 billion. Today we have a presence across the Americas, Europe and Africa.
- Ardagh produces many of the beverage cans and bottles that contain your favourite beverages.
- Our packaging is manufactured from metal and glass - permanent materials that can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality.
- Ardagh produces more than 60 billion containers per year (more than 160 million containers per day).