Quality Assurance Specialist

CoorsTek•Golden, CO

About The Position

The Quality Assurance Specialist administers the company’s total quality management programs and supports the production of high-quality products and services. The role establishes control limits and control charts, identifies improvement opportunities, recommends corrective actions, and may focus on auditing or documentation control. It interfaces with customers, suppliers, employees across the organization, and engineering and sales departments to resolve quality problems. The specialist may inspect and approve finished products, certify products for shipment, conduct visual and measurement tests, confirm rework, and use judgment to determine part workability. The role investigates faulty work, scrap, rework, and inspection delays; prepares statistical analyses and technical reports; and recommends changes to methods, tooling, tolerances, inspection, or testing procedures. It also conducts internal and external audits and supplier surveys, supports calibration activities, and serves as a resource for procedures, equipment, and technical information. The position may involve complex measuring equipment and CMM programming, and may require working any shift or day as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or five years of related education and work experience.
Extensive expertise and knowledge in the specified area.
Ability to read and analyze complex information.
Ability to work with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

Responsibilities

Administer the company’s total quality management programs.
Establish control limits and control charts to ensure quality control standards are met.
Identify improvement opportunities and determine appropriate courses of action.
Focus on assigned quality functions such as auditing or documentation control, as needed.
Interface with customers, suppliers, and employees at all organizational levels.
Conduct visual and measurement tests and communicate required adjustments to appropriate personnel.
Approve finished products by confirming specifications, conducting tests, returning products for rework, and confirming rework; certify products for shipment.
Use judgment and discretion to determine the workability of parts.
Work with engineering and sales departments, and occasionally customers, to solve problems.
Develop approaches to ensure high-quality products and services.
Prepare or present statistical analyses to support recommendations for changes to methods, tooling, tolerances, inspection, or testing procedures.
Identify, define, and recommend quality control issues.
Interpret technical data in mathematical or diagrammatic form.
Investigate faulty work, excessive scrap, rework, and inspection delays, and take appropriate corrective action.
Perform complex measurements, potentially using equipment such as CMM, Ziess, Smartscope, or RAM, and write CMM machine programs as needed.
Assemble cost-control and statistical data.
Assist others with procedures, equipment, or technical information as needed.
Use and interpret Statistical Process Control or other computer software to gather and maintain technical records.
Compute and plot data for production-floor graphs and charts, and summarize data in technical reports for leadership as needed.
Conduct internal and external audits and supplier surveys to verify capability or compliance.
Adjust basic hand instruments to calibration standards and assemble equipment as needed.
Use the calibration recall system to record assigned equipment calibration history and status as needed.
Meet or exceed quality standards and seek to minimize errors.
Assist or perform in any area as assigned.
Work any shift or day as required.