Quality Assurance Specialist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree preferably in a Technical Field or minimum of 4 years or equivalent experience.
• Experience in ISO Quality systems

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to Lean Manufacturing

Responsibilities

• Participate in the development of product and process specifications
• Create and implement inspection and testing criteria or procedures for quality control
• Coordinate the selection and implementation of quality control equipment such as inspection gauges
• Review and update standard operating procedures or quality assurance manuals
• Document the key risks and controls and the assessment of adequacy
• Create, implement and maintaining comprehensive processes to improve clarity and consistency
• Assists in scale up study, review and verification of new technology and equipment to predict and prevent quality issues prior to first production batch.
• Identify critical points in the operations process and specify sampling procedures to be used at these points
• Conduct experiments to identify the abnormal quality of products including raw materials and identify root cause of the problems.
• Research identified discrepancies to determine the root cause and provide recommendation on how to mitigate the risk.
• Works with technical and operations to resolve and prevent new product scale up issues.
• Investigates customer issues related to quality concerns for all aspects of NPAA including paint, process, containers or delivery.
• Determine short term immediate countermeasures and containment activity to: Get customer back to running their production line, Prevent the outflow of off quality to other customers., Contain off quality materials within NPAA facility and external warehouses.
• Create RCA/investigation reports for internal and external customers
• Analyze customer’s complaints for patterns and trends and summarizing trends to make corrective action recommendations
• Monitor performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency
• Report and track any significant deviations from quality standards, identify and implement corrective actions for continuous improvement / PDCA projects.
• Produce reports regarding nonconformance of products or processes, root cause analysis, or quality trends.
• Participate in root cause analysis of off quality batches at NPAA.
• Participate in meetings with customers or suppliers as representative of NPAA Quality Department.
• Travel to customers or suppliers as Quality representation, as necessary.

Benefits

• annual merit increases
• an annual incentive bonus plan
• 11 paid holidays each year
• paid time off to support work-life balance
• comprehensive health and welfare plans
• a 401(k)program featuring an exceptional company match
• tuition reimbursement
• employee recognition programs
• opportunities to grow within the organization
• company events throughout the year celebrating and appreciating our employees’ hard work and dedication