Quality Technician in Kanawha, Iowa at Stellar Industries Inc

Summary: The Quality Technician will work closely with members of the quality, operations, and engineering teams to ensure that the quality standards are met throughout the production process. In this role you will assist in issue identification and investigation with members of quality, operations, and engineering to drive continuous improvement through root cause identification and corrective action.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.

• Collaborate across functions and sites, leveraging quality and manufacturing expertise to troubleshoot problems, interpret data and determine next steps with a risk-based approach.

• Willingness to take direction from area supervision and follow that direction.

• Be capable of reading drawings, understanding dimensional callouts, and other technical documentation.

• Comprehend current production quality standards and determine if ongoing production meets those standards.

• Evaluate parts/components/weldments at the start, middle and end of production runs.

• Guide production teams to properly disposition parts as good for use, needs repair, or scrap.

• Document and communicate any identified defects.

• Escalate concerns that are not being properly resolved in your area.

• Communicate emerging and trending quality issues to prevent negative impact to the factory floor.

• Visually detect defects in a fast-paced environment.

• Physically feel defects in materials.

• Identify and differentiate between several defect types.

• Determine severity of a defect and the required response.

• Perform detailed daily record keeping and reporting of quality issues that will be referenced by specialists, engineers, and management.

• Determine potential countermeasure solutions against failed inspections.

• Construct and maintain strong relationships with members of all nearby teams.

• Be personable and effective in verbal and written communication.

• Apply critical thinking skillset to engage and troubleshoot new quality issues.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Works well as team member

• Able to follow orders of supervisor

• Able to work alone, self-directed

• Specific Job Skills

• Computer skills

• Read drawings and other documents

• Have mechanical skills.

Manufacturing & Operations, Quality