Senior Quality Technician

Agility Fuel Systems LLC • Lincoln, NE

26d • $25 - $32

About The Position

The Senior Quality Technician inspects products and monitors manufacturing processes according to established standards. Working with the Quality and Operations groups under the guidance of the Quality Manager, the role helps ensure quality products are shipped to customers on time. The technician supports quality coverage across assigned manufacturing areas and value streams, coordinates team activities, contributes to production meetings, and helps resolve quality issues through inspection, containment, audits, measurement-system maintenance, and corrective action.

Requirements

• Experience working in a manufacturing or industrial work setting is required.
• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings and specifications is required.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) experience is required.
• Experience with various physical and mechanical inspections is required.
• Ability to perform Quality Technician activities at a sustained high level.
• Ability to achieve planned results using organization, prioritization, and communication skills within a team environment, including recognizing internal customer expectations and setting priorities accordingly.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to understand complex situations, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Effective written and oral communication skills regarding quality and technical issues.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Ability to reliably report status, performance, and results.
• Basic knowledge of MS Word and Excel.
• Flexibility to adjust work hours and schedule to support internal and external customer needs.

Nice To Haves

• Associate’s degree in a technical discipline.
• ASQ Quality Technician (CQT) certification.
• Other ASQ certifications, such as Quality Inspector, Quality Auditor, Quality Process Analyst, Six Sigma Green Belt, or Quality Improvement Associate.
• Mechanical Inspector and ASNT Level II or III certifications.
• More than 3 years of experience in a Quality Control or Quality Assurance role.
• Experience with ISO 9001 requirements.
• Experience with destructive and nondestructive testing (NDT) methods.
• Experience with lean manufacturing tools such as 5S, Kaizen, and Value Stream Mapping.
• Training as an ISO 9001 auditor.
• Working knowledge of SPC, gage R&R, and basic quality tools such as check sheets, flow charts, control charts, histograms, and scatter diagrams.
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Word and Excel.
• Basic knowledge of MS Outlook.
• Ability to manage a budget.
• Involvement in a professional organization such as ASQ or a related organization.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Quality Technician and Quality Inspector activities provide timely and effective production coverage and support in the assigned manufacturing area.
• Coordinate and communicate with Quality Technicians, Quality Inspectors, Value Stream Managers, Area Leads, and Operators.
• Assign tasks to team members and follow up on results as needed.
• Assess production-support levels and identify improvement needs.
• Represent the Quality Team as the point of contact for assigned value streams at daily production meetings.
• Communicate fact-based improvement needs to Operations, Engineering, and Quality, and convey internal customers’ needs within the Quality Team.
• Coordinate the daily MRB meeting at 9:30 in Bay B and present major findings to the Quality Manager.
• Review and sign FRRs as backup to Quality Engineers.
• Review and sign pertinent PD, LMS, and ST documents for the manufacturing engineering team.
• Lead training for Quality Technicians and Quality Inspectors.
• Conduct inspections and evaluations to identify nonconforming material and equipment.
• Support the nonconforming-material system by implementing containment and dispositions.
• Check whether established control plans are adequate and effective throughout production.
• Help manufacturing operations identify, contain, and permanently resolve quality issues.
• Perform internal Quality Management System and process audits.
• Maintain gage-checking and calibration systems.
• Conduct targeted studies of process capability and gage repeatability and reproducibility.
• Support product and service quality improvement through root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action planning, and verification of results.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed