Regional Operational Excellence & Quality Assurance Coordinator

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability. 

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
• Medical, dental, vision plan
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

 

What Will You Enjoy Doing

Continuous Improvement & Lean Initiatives

• Apply continuous improvement principles to ensure plant performance and adherence to ALPLA standards
• Execute and coordinate improvement projects and Kaizen workshops with support from the Regional OPEX team
• Design, execute, and evaluate Continuous Improvement (CI) initiative (NEXT) programs for local implementation
• Adjust and execute the NEXT communication campaign with regional support
• Leverage Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies to identify corrective actions and implement preventive actions for OPEX, Quality, and Safety topics

Systems & Tools Management

• Ensure correct usage of official tools, reports, and systems (e.g., 5S, APM2, CTO, CAQ, AlplaPROD, QDMS, CCH)
• Verify new tools and methods; support local process owners in implementation and sustainability

Training & Coaching

• Train local leaders on OPEX assessments
• Diagnose current operational conditions and moderate execution of improvements
• Create, review, and disseminate best practices across the region

Quality Assurance & Compliance

• Support Quality Assurance programs, including execution of regional internal audits
• Ensure alignment with ALPLA standards and compliance frameworks

Travel & Site Support

• Must be located near an ALPLA facility
• Travel up to 60% to support plant-level initiatives and cross-site coordination

 

What Makes You Great  

• BS - Engineering or STEM based discipline or equivalent work experience in a technical or operations based role
• Minimum 3 years experience in a manufacturing environment. Process analysis, supply chain, production, lean management, quality assurance and/or project management

Qualifications/Skills:

• Analytical; systemic thinking
• Systems experience (BPM, CTO, CAQ, QDMS, CCH, Office)
• Moderation and training
• Strong social and communication abilities
• Project management
• Lean management
• Leadership and personnel management (behavioural economics)
• Strong sense of personal accountability and ownership (entrepreneurial spirit)
• Certifications/Licenses: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent preferred.

Other Requirements:

• Must be able to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization—approachable with frontline teams and confident in engaging and challenging plant leadership.

 

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. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

 

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #HOU #STP #Salaried

 

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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Client-provided location(s): Houston, TX

Job ID: 20240_REGIO001138

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-14T00:00:00