Quality Lead

About the role

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Schedule

2nd Shift 0230p-1115p Mon-Fri | Round Rock, TX Site

Responsibilities

• Inspect and test products at various stages in the production process.
• Establish testing procedures to determine a product's dimensions and its mechanical, electrical, or chemical characteristics.
• Set up and perform testing on materials, parts, or finished products to measure product performance under a variety of conditions.
• Responsible for test results documentation.
• After products have been fully tested, the quality control lead evaluates the data.
• Prepare summaries to show how the product might differ from existing standards of quality and reliability.
• Suggest changes in how products are made to achieve the best quality possible.
• Recommend methods to minimize the amount of scrap, or leftover material, which is thrown away after a product has been manufactured.
• Areas in which quality control lead can specialize include: product design, purchasing, inventory control, or research and development.
• Select and assign quality control duties, and evaluate the performance of the team in their assigned role.
• Arrange trainings as related to improving quality control measures and ensures that labor relations requirements are met.
• Maintain records and reports and issue correspondence, reviewing errors and their causes and giving advice to correct such errors.

Qualifications

• Quality Control background.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite, warehouse tracking systems, and root cause analysis methodologies.
• Ability to operate a pallet jack.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Demonstrates advanced technical skills.
• Demonstrates detailed functional knowledge and may lead process.
• Has awareness of new technologies/techniques.
• Has awareness of and may apply new technologies.

Preferred qualifications

• ASQ certification as CQT, CQA, CQPA or CSSGB is desired.

Scope

• May assist in developing goals/targets of line or department.

Decision making

• May make decisions or recommendations within a team or line. Decisions may affect department/function.

Supervision & leadership

• May edit work or advise other employees.

Work environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and work that requires repetitive motion.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
• The employee frequently is required to sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and color vision.
• Ability to handle small components.