Quality Technician

Gooch & Housego Rochester GSO • City of Rochester, NY

3h • Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Technician is responsible for providing support and qualifying in-process production parts for manufacture following existing test protocols and procedures. This role works closely with production process technicians to start up and maintain a process for producing parts with consistent and acceptable yields. Required to perform process compliance audits to ensure conformance to company procedures.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent experience
• Optical manufacturing and/or inspection
• Injection molding
• Medical device manufacture or inspection in an FDA registered and/or ISO 13485 certified facility
• Six Sigma and/or lean manufacturing
• Optical inspection equipment (interferometer, OGP Smart Scope)
• Mechanical measurement equipment (calibers, CMM, profilometer, etc)

Nice To Haves

• Associates degree in a technical discipline preferred

Responsibilities

• Perform dimensional measurements with manual/hand gauges (calipers, micrometers, etc) and computer-controlled gauges (Mitutoyo touch CMM, Zeiss scanning CMM, OGP multisensory CMM, Zeiss profilometer)
• Perform optical non-contact inspection using interferometer and optical bench metrology methods
• Perform visual inspection of optical parts per MIL PRF-13830B to identify nonconformance according to documented parameters
• Notify production personnel of inspection results
• Identify and report systematic and preventable nonconformance occurrences to maximize yields
• Perform final inspection requirements both in-process (where applicable) and as a standalone operation
• Reject defective product and document through Discrepant Material Report (DMR) process
• Document inspection results electronically into Excel based inspection files
• Summarize daily activities and inspection statis via email or daily journal
• Apply flash coating to sample parts using a vacuum coating chamber
• Work with production to actively and urgently find continuous improvement opportunities and work as a team to suggest machine and process changes
• Perform process compliance audits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED