Quality Technician II
About The Position
The Quality Technician II (QT2) is a senior technical quality professional responsible for executing complex inspections, leading quality investigations, and improving inspection methods and quality processes. The role exercises independent judgment when evaluating nonconforming conditions and actively identifies trends, performs root cause investigations, and implements preventative actions. QT2 professionals collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and continuous improvement teams to improve product quality and manufacturing processes. The QT2 also serves as a technical mentor for other quality technicians and contributes to improved inspection strategies and quality standards.
Requirements
- Associate or Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, or a related discipline.
- 3–6 years of manufacturing quality or inspection experience.
- Strong understanding of GD&T and drawing interpretation.
- Experience performing complex dimensional inspections.
- Knowledge of root cause investigation methods.
- Experience working with nonconformance systems and MRB processes.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Perform dimensional and functional inspections on moderate-complexity products and assemblies.
- Independently interpret complex engineering drawings and GD&T requirements.
- Use standard inspection tools, FARO scanning systems (including basic programming and troubleshooting), and functional test equipment.
- Evaluate measurement results and determine appropriate escalation or containment actions.
- Provide hands-on inspection support during elevated workloads to keep incoming, in-process, and final inspection queues current.
- Assist QT1 technicians with inspection challenges and measurement interpretation issues.
- Collaboratively prioritize work with the inspection team to prevent backlogs and production delays.
- Serve as a technical resource to help ensure inspection activities are efficient and correct.
- Improve inspection plans based on risk, historical defects, and process capability.
- Identify opportunities to simplify inspection while maintaining risk control.
- Optimize inspection parameters and measurement methods.
- Independently disposition moderate-complexity nonconformances within defined authority limits.
- Evaluate containment strategies and potential production risk.
- Support MRB decision-making.
- Lead quality investigations using structured problem-solving tools, including 5 Whys, Fishbone analysis, and basic statistical analysis.
- Correlate inspection data with process behavior and manufacturing variation.
- Recommend corrective and preventative actions.
- Analyze quality data to identify emerging trends and drive preventative actions to reduce defect recurrence.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering and CI teams to improve process capability and inspection methods, and strengthen process controls.
- Provide DFMA feedback related to inspectability and tolerance risk.
- Train and coach QT1 technicians and share best practices for inspection techniques and quality methods.
- Demonstrate technical leadership, anticipate quality risks, drive cross-functional accountability for quality, and model strong problem-solving behavior.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
