Job Description

The Quality Assurance Technician inspects completed products for conformance to specifications by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Examine material or product for surface defects such as scratches, cracks, pits, misaligned muttons and incomplete welds
• Compares product with shipping labels to ensure completion of order
• Verifies specified dimensions of product or material
• Rejects defective parts, and marks type of defect on part, container of parts, or inspection tag
• Interprets and confers with management to determine quality and reliability standards
• Operates any diagnostic equipment needed to perform job
• Performs related duties as needed by supervision
• Other duties may be assigned

TECHNICAL SKILLS OR CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to read and interpret metal rule
• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations

EDUCATION

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Three to Six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Specialist areas of experience preferred:

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Inventory or warehouse information technology management systems
• Experience with standard practices of barcoded inventory processes and production inventory management of consumption and movement

COMPETENCIES

• Technical Capacity
• Organizational Skills
• Problem Solving/Analytical
• Time Management
• Initiative

WORK RELATIONSHIPS

INTERNAL

• Receiving
• Quality
• Purchasing
• Production

EXTERNAL

• Vendors
• Suppliers

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving equipment.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.