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Job Purpose

The QA Technician position will work in collaboration with the Manufacturing Team to perform inspections, internal audits, and statistical process control activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Adhere to company policies and present a professional, positive attitude, at all times.
• Inspect parts, subassemblies, tools, machines, packaging components, and finished products.
• Perform first article inspection on both new and changed products.
• Record, maintain, and analyze testing, defects, and audit data.
• Use hand tools and measurement tools such as calipers, micrometers, radius gages, thread gages, etc.
• Perform process and internal audits.
• Write and update inspection and testing procedures.
• Identify and maintain measuring and monitoring equipment.
• Identify and control nonconforming product.
• Implement and maintain statistical process control activities.
• Be a team member or leader of continual improvement projects and activities as assigned. Continual learning and implementation of quality and industry best practices
• Will work overtime if needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge

• Knowledge:Production and Processing Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• English Language Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Customer and Personal Service Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Mechanical Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Mathematics Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes for performing work with high level quality and quantity standards.

Skills

• Blueprint Reading Ability to read and interpret blueprints used in precision machining.
• Tools/Equipment Ability to use precision measurement tools, such as, optical comparator, height gage, profilometer, handheld/portable CMM, calipers, micrometers, thread gages, and instant measurement devices.
• Quality Control Analysis Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Critical Thinking Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Writing Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Judgment and Decision Making Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Reading Comprehension Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
• Monitoring Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Operations Monitoring Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
• Time Management Managing one\'s own time and the time of others.

Abilities

Perceptual Speed The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

Flexibility of Closure The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.

Problem Sensitivity The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.

Category Flexibility The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.\<