Quality Specialist 2nd & 3rd Shift

Key Deliverables

• Motivate and ensure that all employees work safely and in accordance with stow QSHE standards.
• Ensure that all work is carried out in a safe, efficient, and quality-focused manner.
• Promote a Lean mindset and continuous improvement.
• Ensure that all activities and processes comply with QSHE standards, policies, work instructions, and local legislation.

Daily

• Quality control at each workstation (hanging/unhanging) per team and record it
• Check the baths (degreasing/rinsing/KOH/titration) and make corrections if needed
• Check S&M packages – “Quality Control.”
• Water half-test: smooth lines (adhesion)
• Mill parts for tensile testing (mother coil or slit coil)
• Check waste carts (properly sorted)
• Production control of NSTs (validation)
• Report (send to colleague and the Quality Department Manager)

Weekly

• Check wastewater discharge
• Clean the wastewater venturi
• Inventory of the Q-zone compared with SAP
• Calibrate smooth line measuring benches
• Check weekend production
• Verify the quality of finished products: warehouse and outside storage
• “Scrap & rework” meeting
• From each smooth line, place 1 sample in the salt spray test

Monthly

• Calibrate coating inspection devices (“Elco”)
• Check powder expiration dates
• Record an oven temperature curve: each line
• Over one week, check 2 trailers per team for correct loading
• Check intermediate materials such as powders, coils, etc.
• Perform powder analyses (gloss / crosscut / MEK)
• Check supplier reference plates

Production Control

• Carry out in-depth internal audits according to a fixed audit plan
• Perform internal audits of workstations
• Negotiate and coordinate with the relevant departments and managers
• Follow up on corrective actions
• Monitoring controls in case of non-conformities
• Perform load tests
• Draft an internal complaint in case of non-conformities / NCRs
• In case of non-conformities, pass on the necessary information to the Quality Administrator
• Prepare an inventory of measuring tools → calibration
• Aid with calibrations carried out by external companies:
• Collect measuring devices.
• Evaluate and communicate results.
• Follow up on actions.

Safety

• Follow general safety instructions
• Wearing and using PPE is mandatory (work clothing, high-visibility vest and/or jacket, safety shoes, safety knife)
• Report hazardous situations
• Maintain work area order and cleanliness
• Keep the quality office and the Q-Zone tidy and clean
• Dispose of waste in the appropriate waste containers