Quality Tech 1st Shift
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The Quality Tech supports manufacturing by inspecting products throughout production runs and conducting final inspections. The role verifies product specifications, identifies and holds suspect products, reviews operator processes against standard procedures, and completes daily job and weight-count reports. It also includes inspecting customer samples and releasing jobs to shipping as needed.
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Full job description
Assist manufacturing in maintaining required quality standards by performing quality inspections throughout a job run as well as by performing final inspections on specified product, including verifying weight counts and completing daily reports and machine inspections. Ensure compliance with federal, state, company policies & safety rules.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
\u2022 Assists manufacturing in maintaining the required quality standards through ongoing inspection.
\u2022 Audits all operator processes against Standard Operating Procedures.
\u2022 Verifies product integrity to job specifications - structure, color, size, layout, etc. using variety of tools, measurements, and methods.
\u2022 Identifies suspect product by completing and placing a hold tag on the load.
\u2022 Reads and understands the combo and job tickets for quantities, selection numbers, size specifications, or other specifications before beginning the job.
\u2022 Reports any questions or problems to the Quality Assurance Manager.
\u2022 Collects and visually inspects customer samples for color variance, size, and cosmetic defects before forwarding to sample area for processing.
\u2022 Releases jobs to the shipping department as needed.
\u2022 Completes required job and weight count reports daily.
\u2022 Performs final inspections for specified customers.
\u2022 Weighs jobs for count verification.
\u2022 Performs other job duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
\u2022 Stand on feet up to 12 hours a day.
\u2022 Must have the ability to read and write instructions and correspondence.
\u2022 Use hands for simple and power grasping as well as push and pull.
\u2022 Use a hand operated pallet jack to move pallets of material.
\u2022 Attention to fine detail with printing, cutting and gluer issues.
\u2022 Must have the ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
\u2022 Must pass color vision test.
\u2022 Must be able to maintain good attendance.
\u2022 Must be able to perform all essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. Employee is required to: stand, talk, see, hear, and be mobile.
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,063 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- North Carolina median$80–132K/yr67 salary ranges
- North Carolina median$30–37/hr27 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 225 open Quality Assurance jobs in North Carolina and 5,063 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- Actalent10 open
- STG International9 open
- Fujifilm8 open
- Experience
- Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (3,880 postings).
- Education
- 1,733 of the 5,063 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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