Quality Technician
About the role
Join us as we empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together. As a Quality Technician I, you'll help ensure our fitness equipment meets quality, safety, and performance standards before it reaches our customers. You'll work throughout our manufacturing operation, inspecting and testing products, documenting results, and partnering with production teams to identify and resolve quality issues. Your work helps us deliver reliable, high-quality products that support healthier lives.
Responsibilities
- Inspect products during production and at final assembly to make sure they meet requirements.
- Compare finished products against work orders, drawings, specifications, and work instructions.
- Check paint and weld quality for defects or other issues.
- Perform functional tests to verify products operate correctly.
- Inspect finished products for appearance, proper assembly, missing components, and overall quality.
- Verify safety and regulatory labels are present, correct, and properly positioned.
- Assign product serial numbers once all inspection requirements are met.
- Complete inspection records and communicate daily quality findings.
- Work with production team members to identify and resolve quality or functional issues.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities as needed.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- Basic computer skills; experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook is a plus.
- Ability to read and understand drawings, specifications, and written work instructions.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to identify problems or inconsistencies.
- Team-oriented approach and the ability to communicate findings clearly.
- Willingness to learn our products, inspection processes, and quality standards.
- Previous quality inspection experience is desired.
- Physical requirements: ability to walk frequently between assembly lines, paint lines, and weld areas; stand, walk, bend, squat, sit, kneel, twist, reach overhead, and use hand tools as needed; lift and carry items weighing up to 50 pounds, with some lighter tasks performed continuously.
Benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with 4% employer match.
- Medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Parental, medical and military leaves of absence.
- Paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
- Paid vacation days beginning at 13 days annually.
- Paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws.
- Company paid short-term disability and optional long-term disability.
- Health savings account.
- Health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts.
- Employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance.
- Hospital indemnity.
- Identity protection.
- Legal services.
- Adoption assistance.
- Tuition assistance.
- Commuter benefits.
- Employee discounts.
- Employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions.
- Access to on-site fitness center featuring Life Fitness and Hammer Strength equipment.
Pay
Starting pay range: $21.50–$26.00 per hour depending on experience (approximately $43,200–$61,200 annually). Eligible for overtime (non‑exempt). Potential additional compensation through the Production Bonus Plan based on performance metrics.
Schedule
1st shift, Monday–Thursday, 5:00 am–3:30 pm.