Quality Engineer

Pretium Packaging • Salt Lake City, UT

53d • Onsite

About The Position

Grow boldly with Pretium and Build Quality into Every Process! At Pretium Packaging, quality is more than an inspection at the end of the line—it’s built into every process, product, and partnership. We’re looking for a Plant Quality Engineer to join our Salt Lake City, Utah team and help us solve manufacturing challenges at their source, strengthen process capability, and deliver packaging our customers can rely on. This is an opportunity for a hands-on, analytical engineer who enjoys turning data into action. You’ll serve as a technical resource for structured problem solving, statistical process control, measurement systems, risk analysis, and validation. Working closely with Operations, Process Engineering, Maintenance, Tooling, Corporate Quality, and suppliers, you’ll help qualify changes, reduce variation, prevent recurring issues, and improve manufacturing performance. This is an on-site plant role with regular plant-floor presence and consistent on-site working hours. You’ll work in a manufacturing environment where safety, quality, and teamwork are essential. If you’re energized by finding root causes, validating solutions, and seeing your improvements make a measurable difference on the plant floor, this role is for you. Who We Are: Pretium Packaging, founded in 1992, is a leading supplier of injection-blow molded plastic containers, renowned for our commitment to superior quality, value, and customer service. With 21 manufacturing facilities across North America, we provide innovative packaging solutions that meet the diverse needs of brand owners in the United States and Canada.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, Plastics, or a related engineering discipline preferred.
• Three to five years of experience in quality engineering, process engineering, manufacturing engineering, or technical quality preferred.
• Experience solving manufacturing problems and improving process capability in a production environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Root Cause Analysis, CAPA, SPC, process capability, MSA, and FMEA.
• Working knowledge of IQ/OQ/PQ, risk-based sampling, test-method selection, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to analyze data using Excel, statistical software, SPC systems, or comparable tools.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, tolerances, control plans, standards, and inspection results.
• Strong analytical thinking and evidence-based decision making.
• Ability to lead technical work through cross-functional influence without direct supervisory authority.
• Clear technical writing, protocol development, and report-writing skills.
• Strong project management, prioritization, and follow-through.
• Customer focus, plant-floor presence, curiosity, accountability, and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in rigid packaging, plastics processing, food-contact packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, or another regulated manufacturing environment is preferred.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt, or equivalent training in statistical methods, quality engineering, and structured problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Lead structured investigations into customer complaints, nonconformances, recurring defects, process failures, and adverse trends using tools such as 5 Why, fishbone analysis, data stratification, hypothesis testing, and cause verification.
• Develop SPC strategies for critical product and process characteristics, including selecting appropriate control charts, rational subgrouping methods, and reaction plans.
• Plan and execute measurement system studies for gauges, test equipment, inspection methods, and attribute evaluations, including Gauge R&R, bias, linearity, stability, resolution, and attribute agreement studies.
• Lead or support Process FMEA and related risk assessments for new and existing processes, identifying failure modes, effects, causes, controls, and risk-reduction priorities.
• Help qualify new or changed resins, colorants, additives, packaging components, molds, tooling, machines, and auxiliary equipment by developing and executing IQ/OQ/PQ protocols.
• Use Pareto analysis, trend analysis, capability data, and defect mapping to prioritize improvement opportunities.
• Develop and improve control plans, sampling plans, inspection methods, reaction plans, and mistake-proofing controls.
• Sustain improvements through standard work, training, monitoring, verification, and clear ownership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level