Lead Quality Control Technician

Flex•Austin, TX

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Flex is a diversified manufacturing partner that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. The Lead Quality Control Technician inspects and tests products at various stages in the production process, establishes testing procedures, and performs testing on materials, parts, or finished products to measure performance under various conditions. This role is responsible for documenting test results, evaluating data, and preparing summaries to highlight deviations from quality and reliability standards. The technician suggests changes to manufacturing processes to achieve optimal quality and minimize scrap material. Specialization areas may include product design, purchasing, inventory control, or research and development. Additionally, the Lead Quality Control Technician selects and assigns quality control duties, evaluates team performance, arranges training to improve quality control measures, ensures labor relations requirements are met, and maintains records and reports, providing advice to correct errors.

Requirements

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals
Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
Demonstrates advanced technical and process skills
Demonstrates advanced/ thorough knowledge of the function and Flex business
Highly skilled with ability to move between shifts/ product lines

Nice To Haves

ASQ certification as CQT, CQA, CQPA or CSSGB

Responsibilities

Inspect and test products at various stages in the production process
Establish testing procedures to determine a product's dimensions and its mechanical, electrical, or chemical characteristics
Set up and perform testing on materials, parts, or finished products to measure product performance under a variety of conditions
Responsible for test results documentation
Evaluate the data after products have been fully tested
Prepare summaries to show how the product might differ from existing standards of quality and reliability
Suggest changes in how products are made to achieve the best quality possible
Recommend methods to minimize the amount of scrap, or leftover material, which is thrown away after a product has been manufactured
Select and assign quality control duties
Evaluate the performance of the team in their assigned role
Arrange trainings as related to improving quality control measures and ensures that labor relations requirements are met
Maintain records and reports and issue correspondence, reviewing errors and their causes and giving advice to correct such errors
Proactively assists supervisor in reaching department goal/targets
Determines quality/testing methods/ procedures on new assignments
May instruct other employees