Quality Technician II

Brief Description

Company Overview: ARA is a leading C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests, and installs innovative technologies to provide the national security community with unparalleled situational awareness, threat detection, and communications capabilities. Leveraging its capabilities, ARA meets and exceeds the requirements of discerning, mission-critical customers.

Job Summary

This position ensures that the product manufactured, packaged, and shipped to customers conforms to all established Quality Requirements. The Quality Technician performs in-process, final, and receiving inspections.

Essential Functions

• Understands and follows inspection procedures based on drawings, specifications, and provided materials.
• Reviews manufacturing documentation (test reports, calibration reports, etc.) for completeness and accuracy.
• Makes recommendations to Quality Engineers based on reviews of manufacturing documentation and observations from the production floor.
• Cleans and maintains test equipment and instruments, certifying that precision instruments meet standards.
• Performs inspections for incoming, final, and in-process using appropriate inspection tools (hand tools, CMM, etc).
• Collects samples for testing and records results.
• Rejects products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications and documents rejects/defects appropriately as non-conformance.
• Tests and measures finished products, components, or assemblies to verify adherence to functional specifications.
• Aids in ensuring all personnel comply with monitoring and controlling measurement processes.
• Provides input to Quality Engineers and management team for continual improvement efforts.
• Assists with other duties as directed by management.

Position Qualifications

• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Adaptability - Adapts to change, open to new ideas and responsibilities.
• Communication - Ability to communicate thoughts clearly, both orally and in writing, in an honest, open, and timely manner.
• Job Knowledge - Understands facets of job, aware of duties and responsibilities, keeps job knowledge current.
• Technical Skill - Possesses the knowledge and skills needed to perform a job or role effectively.
• Dependability - Meets deadlines, works independently or in a team environment, is accountable, maintains focus, good attendance record.
• Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products.
• Ethics - Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality.
• Initiative / Take Ownership - Takes action, seeks new opportunities, strives to see projects to completion, meaning own your job and see it through.
• Customer Focus - Understands and can meet the needs in a customer-centric (internal and external) environment and builds strong relationships. Promotes a positive image of the company and strives to solve issues raised by customers.

Experience and Skills

• 3-6 years of experience.
• CMM operation and programming (PCDMIS or similar preferred).
• Familiarity with ISO-9001:2015 and/or AS9001.
• Experience using QMS software and ERP systems (Costpoint, Gage Trak, TIPQA or similar preferred).
• High level of computer skills utilizing Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint preferred).
• Familiarity with GD&T.
• Machine shop experience is a plus.
• IPC-610 experience or certification preferred.
• Internal audit experience preferred.
• Knowledge of practical application of engineering science and technology.

Education

• Must have High School Diploma (GED) or trade school graduate, and 5-8 years of relevant inspection or quality technician experience.
• Higher level education a plus.