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Quality Assurance Technician
LowellOn-siteFull-time
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Inspects products and conducts testing during and after manufacturing to ensure compliance with quality standards, interpreting engineering drawings and coordinating with management and engineering staff.
About this role
Westaff is hiring Quality Assurance Technician in Danvers, MA
Benefits to our Westaff Associates:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Retirement Savings Plan
- FREE Online training
- WEEKLY PAY
Schedule of the QA Technician:
Monday - Friday
7am - 3:30pm
$20 - $25
This self-motivated individual is responsible for inspection of all products and conducting testing processes during and after manufacturing build to ensure that products comply with quality standards. They perform the following duties personally or through non-supervisory direct reports.
Duties of the QA Technician:
- Interprets engineering drawings and diagrams, confers with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards.
- Dimensionally inspect raw material, finished parts and tooling to drawings, purchase order and applicable documentation using calipers, gauges and other required tooling.
- Coordinate compliance with all applicable standards such as ISO 9000, and other applicable customer requirements.
- Review product and process non-conformance and recommend actions including but not limited to modifications of processes, products or QA standards where warranted. Report to management on quality issues, trends and losses.
- Selects products for testing and inspection at specified stages in production process for variety of qualities such as dimensions, performance, and mechanical characteristics.
- Record results of inspections by part number and department in an inspection log and maintain an inspection data sheet for each lot of material and tooling inspected.
- Requests changes to QA plans, tolerances and other required process control procedures to insure processes, work in progress and finished goods meet the specified quality standards.
- Conducts receiving inspection and testing as required.
- Utilize standard mechanical instruments, functional gauges and test rigs and testing equipment.
- Process associated documentation including process tags, rework tags and nonconforming material documents.
- Provide technical expertise and transfer knowledge to other members of the operations.
- Communicate daily with all departments.
- Performs related duties assigned by supervisor.
Qualifications:
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, drawings, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak and write effectively.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Manufacturing software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
- Will have a thorough knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, process improvement, and warehouse methods.
- Must have strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be a highly organized, self-motivated individual who can work independently and accountably and inspire high performance from a team.
- Must be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations.
Skills
CalipersFunctional GaugesGaugesInspection LoggingISO 9000Lean ManufacturingManufacturing SoftwareNonconforming Material DocumentationProcess ImprovementProcess TagsQuality StandardsRework TagsSpreadsheet SoftwareTest RigsWord Processing Software
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