Quality Assurance -Temporary Assistant

Victaulic•Easton, PA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Position: TEMPORARY Quality Assurance Engineering Lab Technician Location: Victaulic World Headquarters – Easton, PA Reports to: Corporate Quality Assurance Supervisor About Victaulic Since 1919, Victaulic has been the world's leading producer of grooved mechanical couplings and pipe-joining systems. Used in the most demanding markets, Victaulic’s innovative piping technologies and services put people to work faster and maximize efficiency while increasing safety and ensuring reliability. The company has 13 major manufacturing facilities, 29 branches, and over 4,000 employees speaking 43 languages across the globe. With more than 1800 active global patents, Victaulic solutions operate in 125 countries across diverse business lines, including oil and gas, chemical, mining, power generation, water and wastewater treatment, military and marine, as well as commercial building and fire protection. Position Overview: The QA Engineering Lab Technician will work in an Engineering Research and Development Laboratory with the responsibility of testing and evaluating components and prototypes to maintain initiative and project timelines for new product or process introductions. This includes ensuring that all standards and requirements are met during the prototype development stage. Creative input is required frequently, as prototype specifications are often incomplete during early project development.

Requirements

Strong mechanical aptitude
Follow oral and written instructions
Maintaining accurate records and logs
Perform all required laboratory functions
Associates or technical degree (preferred) or previous relevant experience
2 years of industrial or lab experience
Microsoft Word and Excel
Hydraulics, pneumatics, and electrical basics
Blueprint reading, shop math, and use of precision instruments

Responsibilities

Assemble and test products to comply with engineering specifications, such as hydrostatic, flex, bending moment, air, cycle, low temperature, heat aging, fire suppression, flow loop and any additional required tests
Inspect and/or test any products or components from Victaulic producing facilities and vendors both foreign & domestic for defects and compliance with engineering specification and drawings for the following: mold & tooling approvals, and sample product approvals during the product development cycle
Install & setup necessary supporting equipment, components and data loggers for testing; Operate the test assembly and instrumentation, measuring performance of products and record data as directed.
Accurately report and record test data as outlined by department processes and engineering requirements
Inspect and recalibrate pressure, vacuum gage, precision measuring instruments, as necessary, to standards which are traceable to NIST; Maintain calibration records and logs per department process and ISO standards
Operate lab fabrication equipment ( i.e. cut-off saw, drill press, belt sander, grinder, and other machine shop equipment) as necessary, to prepare product and materials for product testing; clean and maintain, as needed
Prepare, assemble and test Victaulic products for agency testing per respective specifications
Prepare product assemblies and perform demonstrations for customers touring the Victaulic facilities
Follow all company safety requirements and participate in testing safety reviews
Maintain an organized clean work area and lab environment.
Specific policies and procedures have been established by the Engineering Department to provide for the security and accessibility of electronic data and confidential information. It is the responsibility of the employee, in the daily course of doing business, to follow said policies as they relate to document management.
The extent to which departmental research and development information is stored electronically has vastly increased and will continue to do so. The new Federal rules pertaining to electronic discovery stipulate that substantive email communications constituted "records" under the Federal Records Act. It is therefore the responsibility of each departmental employee to understand their role in communicating via e-mails and that all e-mails must be written/responded to in a professional manner.