Distribution Quality Technician - 1st Shift

Responsibilities

• Conducts process and product audits to ensure team members are following standardized operating procedures and adhering to all quality standards.
• Implements resolutions from basic to moderately complex problems.
• Exercises judgement within procedures and practices in selecting methods and techniques for arriving at solutions.
• Implements process improvements to continuously improve quality.
• Cross trains in multiple departments or stations and flexes to other similar departments based on business necessity.
• Aid/support implementing corrective actions to resolve design, supplier, or production quality issues.
• Supports facility in gage/tool calibration and Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R).
• Trains others in quality tool usage to implement process improvements to continuously improve quality.

Requirements

• Associates degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated quality experience.
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to maintain a professional rapport with support groups and peers while achieving results.
• Leads communication to team members reviewing achievement to quality metrics and progress of countermeasures/projects.
• Supports communication to Supervisor of issues impacting quality with appropriate countermeasures.
• Intermediate SAP knowledge.
• Intermediate proficiency with 5S.
• Intermediate knowledge of Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Quality Control Plans, mistake proofing, Nonconforming Material Reports (NMR), Engineering Change Requests (ECR), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and ISO Quality System processes.
• Ability to train others.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear;
• Use hands to manipulate objects or controls;
• Stand and walk;
• Occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds;
• Sometimes stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders;
• Occasional travel.