Metallurgical Technician Lead - 2nd Shift

LISI Aerospace•Torrance, CA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Lab Lead plays a critical role in ensuring that our products, services, and operations meet established customer standards. This position involves conducting thorough examinations, detailed inspections, and various tests to assess compliance with internal and external regulations and standards. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail, strong analytical skills, and a commitment to upholding the highest standards of quality and safety. This role also involves training less skilled employees on specific techniques and procedures.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent education.
Minimum 5-8 years of metallurgical or physical laboratory experience.
Understanding of test equipment and lab procedures.
Or a combination of inspection and lab procedures.
Proficient in the use of Calipers, Micrometers, Height gages, ring gages, pin gages, go and no-go pin gages, optical comparator and microscopes.
Reads and understands blueprints.
Basic mathematical functions (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
Ability to perform these operations using units and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Basic mainframe computer systems and familiar with Spreadsheet and Word Processing software, Database systems.
Employee is frequently required to stand, walk, or sit for extended periods of time.
Employee is required to speak or listen and requires eye-hand coordination, repetitive hand and arm movement and manual dexterity use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
Employee must regularly bend, reach to shoulder level and lift, carrying, pushing and/or pulling up to 30 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Hearing level within normal/average range.
Employee will be required to wear personal safety equipment such as safety glasses, hearing protection, or proper footwear PPE in specified areas.
Be familiar with the main health and safety risks and the main environmental impacts relating to the scope of his/her work.
Be familiar with the site's HSE policy and objectives.

Nice To Haves

Completion of college-level mathematics, metallographic, or mechanical engineering a plus.

Responsibilities

Inspects semi-finished components including, but not limited to, bolt blank stock, washers, internally and externally threaded fasteners, and raw material for conformance to customer specifications and production/manufacturing drawings.
Inspects precision machined components and sub-assemblies for conformance to predetermined mechanical standards, specifications and tolerances according to the company’s quality procedures, production drawings, and industry standards.
Performs final inspection of close tolerance fasteners by the company’s internal procedures and customer requirements.
Maintains inspection reports and records inspection data on department-approved forms.
Uses precision measuring equipment and performs detailed dimensional inspections as required.
Coordinates inspection activities with the leads and employees in the area where work is being performed.
Reads and comprehends blueprints.
Determines methods of inspection to be used.
Inspects, adjusts, and verifies accuracy of gauges and measuring instruments for conformance to specifications and issues gages to support factory production.
Reviews calibration certifications according to quality procedures and purchase order requirements.
Develops First Article inspection documents and creates inspection reports per quality procedures.
Reviews final inspection documentation and assists the compliance team as needed.
Responsible for scanning of paperwork, filing, data entry, and product certification as needed.
Processes customer returns in accordance with quality procedures and policies.
Attends PMRT meetings as needed to assist in dispositions of rejection tags.
Performs preliminary review of product rejections issued by inspectors.
Trains less skilled employees or Trainees.
Checks all machine equipment at the beginning and end of shift to promote safe start.
Attends PSM 1 and PSM 2 meetings.
Schedules production daily for the shift.
Delegates jobs and troubleshoots issues as they arise to prevent bottlenecks.
Leads projects within their work areas.
Maintains a supply inventory and orders supplies if needed.
Delegates job tasks to different areas of the Inspection side.
Leads PSM 1 meetings.
Conducts 'Gamba walks' around the department.
Sends out daily reports at the beginning and end of shift.
Submits tickets for maintenance requests.
Responsible for refresher training for Inspectors.
Ensures proper PPE usage across the department, identifies safety concerns, and provides ideas and leadership to improve safety.
Properly tracks and stores material assigned to the department.
Maintains a product supplies list to avoid running out.
Complies with the rules and regulations set forth by federal, local, and state government, LISI Aerospace, and HSE procedures.
Brings any known or suspected nonconformance for all company procedures or legal requirements to management’s attention immediately.
Performs and assists in the physical and metallurgical tests on in-process and final production parts.
Performs tasks associated with the movement of materials, supplies, and finished goods to designated areas throughout the facility.
Performs preparation techniques of Metallurgical mounts such as grinding, cutting, polishing and etching.
Assists in the preparation of in-process tests on setup parts from various manufacturing operations.
Reads and understands drawings and specifications for correct test requirements, procedures and sampling plans.
Performs tests associated with Mechanical Testing, such as tensile, shear, fatigue, stress durability, head docility, installation force, torque and other tests to ensure conformance to quality requirements and/or specifications.
Reports any safety violation, test equipment misusage and/or improperly performed work to Supervisor.
Analyzes drawings and specifications for correct test requirements, procedures and sampling plans.
Verifies calibration on all test equipment before use.
Verifies and ensures all jobs and materials have accurate information on the identification tags and the correct documentation has been completed.
Assists in raw material verification when needed.
Moves parts and materials to and from factories and departments as indicated on material documentation.
Delivers part samples to quality lab for inspection and evaluation when required.
Enters work order information in the Shop Floor System in preparation for shipping.
Reviews lab test results to ensure all operations have been performed and completed.
Assists in the Shipping and Receiving department with stocking and re-stocking, ensuring all product and materials has accurate weight and or piece count.
Assists the Preliminary Material Review Team (PMRT).
Sorts parts in the Quality Assurance Lab when needed.
Conducts lab sampling when needed.
Verification and inspection of raw material as required.
Assists manufacturing and quality control in determining conformance of in-process and finished products to customer specifications and drawings.
Ensures maintenance and calibration on all equipment and that raw materials meet specification and calibration requirements.
Performs data reduction calculations.
Takes photo macro and micrographs.
Assists engineering in the research of test programs by writing laboratory test reports when necessary.
Develops new laboratory test procedures.
Performs developmental and failure analysis programs.
Assists in developing and writing new laboratory test procedures and work instructions.
Trains less skilled employees or Trainees.
Leads projects within their work areas, example mechanical, med prep area, polish area, metallurgical area.
Delegates job task to different area of the Lab.
Leads PSM meeting.
Performs the Internal round robins for technicians.
Responsible for the refresher training for lab technicians.
Creates, maintains, and issues all gages used by production through the GageTrak System.
Monitors daily temperature and humidity requirements in the gage room.
Uses spreadsheet to find correct offset and insert.
Calibrates various gages performed in house, updates the tracking system, and updates calibration sticker.
Controls test bolt inventory in the gage room used by operators and technicians.
Issues test bolts and requests additional test bolts as needed from stock.
Requests quotes for new gages and inputs orders into ordering system Kissflow.
Requests quotes for outside calibration, schedules, and coordinates all activities related to outside or internal calibrations.
Sends weekly and biweekly reports to all production and quality areas for gage calibration due dates.
Reviews lab and gage certs upon receipt for correct requirements and condition notes.
Acts as a gage expert and resource for various engineering projects.
Controls and maintains the measurement of uncertainty calculations for all required gages.
Adheres and implements all company HSE policies, procedures, and practices.
Implements and suggests waste elimination initiatives specifically related to the function and department such as recycling opportunities and elimination of paper waste.