Quality Technician (Hands On Position)

Job Details

Top Tier Family Run Manufacturing Company Seeks Experienced Quality Tech

Why Join Us?

• Impact & Ownership: Hands-on role in assuring quality across the production process.
• Growth & Learning: Exposure to advanced measurement tools, quality systems, root-cause analysis, and industry best practices.
• Collaborative Team Culture: Work alongside cross-functional teams in a culture that values open communication, feedback, and mutual respect.
• Stability & Reputation: Long track record in the industry and opportunities for advancement as projects and customer demands evolve.
• Continuous Improvement Focus: Kaizen-style improvement: identifying inefficiencies, reducing waste, improving processes, and tracking metrics.
• Competitive Compensation & Benefits: Competitive pay, benefits (health, PTO, etc.), and performance-based incentives in line with industry norms for a quality role in manufacturing.

Responsibilities / Duties

• Perform in-process inspections, first article inspections (FAI), and final inspections of components or assemblies, using measurement instruments (calipers, micrometers, CMM, gauges, etc.).
• Analyze inspection data, maintain quality records, and prepare reports on quality audits, trends, and nonconformances.
• Identify, document, and help drive root cause investigations for defects, nonconformances, and process deviations.
• Work with manufacturing, engineering, and production teams to implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Assist in developing and maintaining control plans, inspection procedures, work instructions, and quality checklists.
• Support internal and external audits (ISO, customer, supplier audits), ensuring compliance with standards and requirements.
• Use statistical process control (SPC) tools, capability studies, measurement system analysis (MSA), and other quality tools to monitor and improve process stability.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects (lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen) to reduce scrap, rework, and cost, and improve throughput and yield.
• Support supplier quality assurance, including incoming inspection, supplier audits, and corrective actions for supplier nonconformances.
• Provide training and coaching to technicians/operators on inspection methods, quality awareness, and defect prevention.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be mobile to walk hourly to verify operator quality checks.
• Experience with Roving Inspection Arm, Keyonce 3D and CMM a plus.
• Experience with Mics, Heith Gages a must.
• Ability to read and interpret prints a must.
• GD&T experience a plus.