Position Description
Quality Technician
Position Summary: The Quality Technician will be responsible for conducting testing procedures during our manufacturing processes to ensure that products comply with quality standards.
Essential Functions:
- Create and audit work instructions
- Problem solve quality issues reported through our customer concern process
- Inspect incoming purchased goods to ensure conformity
- Resolve supplier issues when received or reported and contain and sort when necessary
- Assist with monitoring and disposing of non-conforming material
- Assist with team training
- Drive best practices into all channels
- Gather, analyze and report data
- Other duties as assigned by Quality Manager
Other Responsibilities:
- Provide administrative support to management as needed
- Maintain advanced knowledge of the product line while conveying irregularities or issues to upper management when necessary
- Work effectively with team members at all levels in a positive and professional manner that represents our mission statement, values and goals.
- Communicate and interact with customers in a pleasant, positive and professional manner as needed
Physical Qualifications:
- Be able to lift up to 50 lbs., bend, and walk at a brisk pace.
- Be able to access different areas of the plant production floor as required to perform essential functions
- Able to work with a computer for extended periods of time.
Position Qualifications:
- Skilled in MS Office- Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point
- Ability to address quality concerns using a positive, mentoring, and win-win approach
- Able to meet deadlines and demonstrate excellent follow-through, organized and stays on task
- Able to follow direction,prioritize responsibilities, and multi-task.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be a team player working across functional groups at all levels of the organization.
- Some understanding and experience in use of quality tools like problems solving, root cause analysis, failure mode effects analysis (FMEA). Use and application of statistical tools a plus
- Approach issue resolution from a deep and wide systems approach
The Stow Company may temporarily assign any team member with duties outside of their normal responsibilities. Such assignments may be warranted due to a variety of specific requirements, conditions and/or the capabilities of available personnel. Management will determine the nature and duration of those assignments.
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