QA Specialist SPR 1 at None

The Quality Specialist plans and conducts activities concerned with the quality assurance of engineering designs, suppliers, manufacturing processes, materials, and products.

Responsibilities:

• Under the guidance of more experienced Quality professionals, gathers, analyzes and interprets process, product and financial data to improve product quality and increase effectiveness and efficiency of processes using statistical process control, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma analysis tools.
• Supports supplier evaluations and certifications. Performs quality capability assessments to assure that procurement requirements can be realized.
• Participates in projects to improve quality processes using Lean principles.
• Under the guidance of more experienced Quality professionals, conducts in-house and supplier audits, issues audit reports, and follows up to assure that corrective actions are completed and are effective.
• Under the guidance of more experienced Quality professionals, conducts root cause analyses and implements corrective/preventive actions
• Under the guidance of more experienced Quality professionals, develops inspection and test plans to assure the quality of products and components.
• Communicates significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and provides recommended process improvements to management.
• Prepares and delivers reports and presentations communicating results of quality assurance activities to team members and management.
• Under the guidance of more experienced Quality professionals, logs and facilitates completion of Corrective actions, customer specification reviews, drawing releases and document approvals.
• Other technical duties as required or as assigned by higher roles.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of API Q1 and ISO 9001 recommended
• Audit Training/Experience recommended
• Enterprise Level ERP experience strongly recommended; Epicor or Dynamics 365 experience a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Must be able to recognize and be discreet with sensitive business-related materials.
• Must be able to work with people to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Must be able to read, understand, learn and follow written and verbal safety, quality and work instructions.
• Must possess technical aptitude, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position requires an onsite presence to perform the essential duties.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, use hands to touch, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.  

Work Environment/Conditions 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• This position will require working primarily indoors in a smoke-free office and manufacturing facility but may also require the employee to be outdoors on occasion.
• Limited travel will be required to support offsite personnel and business projects.
• Occasional assignments will require remote accessing and may include evening or weekend schedules.
• The noise level is usually moderate.  Employee will occasionally work near moving mechanical parts

Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the United States. All employees must be able to comply with the company Drug and Alcohol Policy, which includes participation in Company random drug testing. Employment is subject to background checks appropriate to the position.