Quality Technician 1 - 1st shift

Milwaukee Tool•Grenada, MT

About The Position

The Quality Technician 1 follows procedures and safety standards to ensure that parts and materials conform to specifications. The role works with minimal supervision across metrology, receiving inspection, heat treat, auditing, and battery warranty analysis. The technician uses laboratory equipment, gauges, and other tools to inspect and measure parts, maintains records and documentation, and takes appropriate corrective action to support continuous quality improvement and customer satisfaction. In metrology, the technician calibrates gauges, audits parts, performs heat-treat testing, maintains calibration records, and operates a vision system to measure angles, lengths, radii, and center distances. Receiving inspection duties include inspecting incoming materials and parts, maintaining files, processing nonconformance and corrective-action records, conducting workplace audits, and controlling rejected or scrapped parts pending disposition. Heat-treat duties include preparing test samples, creating samples with specialized cutting equipment, and inspecting hardness and micro-hardness. Auditing duties include daily product and process audits, teardown analysis, Process Control Plan audits, and use of SPC tools to investigate failures and rejects. Battery warranty analysis includes evaluating returned batteries under current return policies, documenting results, and preparing evaluated batteries for recycling. The technician is expected to practice 5S industrial housekeeping, operate equipment safely, respond effectively to change, and perform other assigned tasks. The position is listed as a first-shift role.

Requirements

Education equivalent to a high school diploma or GED.
Experience reading prints and using gauges.

Nice To Haves

Technical certification preferred.
Quality assurance or quality control experience preferred.
Vendor or supplier relations experience helpful.

Responsibilities

Use laboratory equipment for gauge calibration and part audits.
Conduct heat-treat testing according to specifications.
Maintain calibration records and update records in the system.
Set up and operate a vision system to measure angles, lengths, radii, and center distances.
Take appropriate corrective action to support continuous quality improvement and customer satisfaction.
Practice 5S industrial housekeeping and operate laboratory equipment and gauges safely.
Inspect incoming materials and parts against quality specifications.
Maintain receiving files and records, and place kanban cards on inspected materials.
Create and complete NCRs, SCARs, and CARs and enter information into the computer.
Perform workplace audits and document results.
Set up and operate gauges to inspect materials and parts accurately.
Control scrapped or rejected parts until disposition is determined.
Perform preventative maintenance as required.
Prepare heat-treat test samples by polishing and chemically activating sample surfaces.
Set up and operate gauges to inspect material hardness and micro-hardness.
Create test samples using specialized cutting equipment.
Conduct daily audits of recon tools, accessories packaging, and accessories manufacturing using print and process-control-plan specifications.
Disassemble and analyze products during teardown audits.
Perform Process Control Plan audits when required.
Investigate failures and rejects using SPC tools.
Maintain and complete required audit records and documentation.
Use gauges and other equipment to measure part tolerances and dimensions against specifications.
Conduct warranty analysis on batteries returned from Authorized Service Centers and Authorized Distributors under current Battery Return Policies.
Prepare batteries for recycling after evaluation.
Adhere to safety requirements, respond effectively to change, and handle other tasks as assigned.