Quality Assurance Technician

Summary Of Position

Play a critical role in the quality, safety, and production at IDEAL Industries. Support day-to-day operations by performing tests, inspections, measurements, and documentation.

Essential Job Functions

• Actively engage in responsibilities and initiatives to ensure a safe work environment.
• Comply with and contribute to the continuous improvement of company policies, processes and procedures.
• Perform varied quality assurance tasks with minimal supervision such as testing, inspection, measurement, and documentation.
• Perform and follow up on investigations into quality problems and customer complaints.
• Perform precision layout inspections, including first piece and on and off-site.
• Maintain the gage calibration system to assure compliance to ISO 9001.
• Program and operate the Vision System and CMM to verify that the product is compliant with engineering specifications.
• Cooky, Canadian Standards Association, and General Service Administration inspectors.
• Train machine operators and quality assurance team members of inspection techniques and systems.
• Complete documentation and tracking on spreadsheets, Microsoft Word, and gage calibration software system.
• Use various tools, machines, and equipment including, but not limited to, personal computers, basic office equipment, and various metrology equipment.
• Monitor work visually and dimensionally referring to blueprints, engineering specifications, and job instruction sheets.
• Regularly practice 6S principles.
• Contribute to a collaborative, team-oriented workplace, which may include other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED.
• 3 years of relevant experience is required.
• Ages degree in a technical field is preferred.
• 5 years of internal experience is preferred.
• A satisfactory equivalent combination of experience and training which ensures the ability to perform the work may be considered.

Working Conditions

• The physical demands below are required to perform the essential functions of the position.
• Effectively perform work in a manufacturing environment.
• Frequently move about work area.
• Occasionally work around production machinery.
• Position positions self to move items at various heights, such as floor, countertop, shelves.
• Effectively communicate and exchange accurate information so that others will understand.
• Observe details at close range, such as documents, computer screens, tools, products, and machines.
• Move boxes through the facility weighing up to 50 pounds occasionally and boxes weighing up to 30 pounds frequently.
• Wear the required personal protective equipment to ensure safety from exposure to hazardous materials/loud noise/heat/cold/other.
• May require overtime or on-call shifts.
• 2nd Shift: 4pm-12am 40 hours a week.