Quality Tech (Venting)
Tekni-Plex · Winston Salem, NC
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Quality
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Packaging
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level quality role at Tekni-Plex (packaging) in Winston Salem, NC.
- They ask for
- 5+ years
- Tools it names
- MSA / Gage R&R, ISO 9001, FDA / GMP, Welding
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $52k–$75k.
Median of the low and high ends of 31 live postings that list pay, out of 554 quality technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 20 other live quality postings in North Carolina.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 2+)
Similar roles usually ask 2+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 38%
- ✓ FDA / GMP 24%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for MSA / Gage R&R, Welding, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Tekni-Plex in Winston Salem
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Full description from Tekni-PlexAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
include the following.
- ◆Must have a good understanding of, or ability to quickly learn, manufacturing technologies currently being utilized in the manufacturing process including but not limited to:
- ◆VAT Membrane Heat Staking
- ◆Direct Weld Membrane Heat Staking
- ◆MMC Cap Liner Assembly
- ◆Follows standard test methods and techniques, inspects and tests product to ensure it meets customer and product specifications, and alerts production when standards are not met
- ◆Monitors product tracking methods (i.e. UPC, date stamps, etc.). Maintains customer samples.
- ◆Puts questionable product on hold, organizes re-work if necessary, and inspects returned product while helping determine the disposition of suspect material.
- ◆Performs 1 st piece verification of all manufacturing operations and documents the results in electronic database.
- ◆Prepares routine reports – including gathering and summarizing data
- ◆Creates Range Boards of Acceptable & Defective product to aid the operators in making effective quality decisions to protect the customer.
- ◆Ability to develop procedures, work instruction and forms to support the ISO9001:2015 Quality system requirements.
- ◆Tests and verifies incoming raw materials while documenting the test results.
- ◆Assists in training quality and production employees in quality assurance based on internal procedures, work instructions and customer specification standards.
- ◆Follows and participates in plant safe housekeeping guidelines designed to ensure a safe work environment. Participates in the GMP
- ◆Performs Capability and Gage R&R Studies monitoring process improvement efforts.
- ◆Advises production personnel of quality problems & works together with the Operations team to develop and implement corrective and preventive action plans to eliminate recurrence.
- ◆Must be self-motivated, able to work independently from direct supervision, but with ability to work together with the Operations Team members.
- ◆Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The
requirements
listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
3 - 5 years of quality assurance experience. Ability to input and retrieve information on a computer. Good communication and interpersonal skills using tact and diplomacy. Strong attention to detail.
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Imagine: A Career With Purpose and Possibility
Picture this: You are part of a global team of problem-solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You’re part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.
At TekniPlex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, TekniPlex Healthcare and TekniPlex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.
Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.
Because at TekniPlex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.
Summary
The Quality Tech is responsible for supporting manufacturing through the inspection and assessment of product quality in the Venting department.
Shift Hours: 6:45 AM - 3:00 PM
Language skills
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
Mathematical skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uncomplicated written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Physical demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, talk, and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Work environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud, and wearing hearing protection is required.
Benefits
TekniPlex provides
