Quality Assurance Specialist
About The Position
Responsible for administering the company’s total quality management programs. The role establishes quality controls, identifies improvement opportunities, supports product inspection and approval, investigates quality problems, and develops approaches for assuring high-quality products and services. It may focus on auditing or documentation control and may involve complex measurement work, CMM programming, calibration support, and statistical process control. The position interfaces with customers, suppliers, engineering, sales, employees at all organizational levels, and leadership. The role 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 a diverse variety of people from different cultures and backgrounds.
Responsibilities
- Establish control limits and control charts to ensure quality control standards are met.
- Identify improvement opportunities and determine an appropriate course of action.
- Support auditing or documentation control when assigned.
- Interface with customers, suppliers, and employees throughout the organization.
- Conduct visual and measurement tests and communicate required adjustments to appropriate personnel.
- Approve finished products by verifying specifications, conducting tests, arranging rework when needed, confirming rework, and certifying products for shipment.
- Work with engineering and sales departments, and occasionally customers, to solve problems.
- Develop approaches for assuring 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 diagrammatical form.
- Investigate causes of faulty work, excessive scrap, rework, or inspection delays and take corrective action.
- Perform complex measurement functions using equipment such as a CMM, Zeiss, Smartscope, or RAM; write CMM programs when required.
- 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 production data, create graphs and charts, and prepare technical reports for leadership.
- Conduct internal and external audits and supplier surveys to verify capability or compliance.
- Adjust basic hand instruments to calibration standards and assemble equipment when required.
- Use the calibration recall system to record equipment calibration history and status when required.
- Meet or exceed quality standards and seek to minimize errors.
- Assist or perform in any assigned area.
- Work any and all shifts or days as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
