Quality Technician

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Collaborate across functions and sites, leveraging quality and manufacturing expertise to troubleshoot problems, interpret data and determine next steps with a risk-based approach.
• Willingness to take direction from area supervision and follow that direction.
• Be capable of reading drawings, understanding dimensional callouts, and other technical documentation.
• Comprehend current production quality standards and determine if ongoing production meets those standards.
• Evaluate parts/components/weldments at the start, middle and end of production runs.
• Guide production teams to properly disposition parts as good for use, needs repair, or scrap.
• Document and communicate any identified defects.
• Escalate concerns that are not being properly resolved in your area.
• Communicate emerging and trending quality issues to prevent negative impact to the factory floor.
• Visually detect defects in a fast-paced environment.
• Physically feel defects in materials.
• Identify and differentiate between several defect types.
• Determine severity of a defect and the required response.
• Perform detailed daily record keeping and reporting of quality issues that will be referenced by specialists, engineers, and management.
• Determine potential countermeasure solutions against failed inspections.
• Construct and maintain strong relationships with members of all nearby teams.
• Be personable and effective in verbal and written communication.
• Apply critical thinking skillset to engage and troubleshoot new quality issues.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Works well as team member
• Able to follow orders of supervisor
• Able to work alone, self-directed

Specific Job Skills

• Computer skills
• Read drawings and other documents
• Have mechanical skills