Sr Quality Assurance Technician; Calibration

We feel a special obligation to the employees who comprise our Taco family. We are committed to offering employees access to the tools necessary to live long and productive lives. We strive to instill in all of our employees:

• A positive mental attitude that helps us to be a leader in the industry
• A commitment to building strong relationships, both inside and outside the organization
• A desire to learn, grow, and contribute to moving our strategy forward
• A need to create and to innovate

Employment Type: Regular Full-Time

Shift: 1st Shift

Work Status: On-site

Position Summary:

The Senior Quality Assurance Technician supports quality engineers in standard processes to ensure compliance with minimal supervision. This position is mostly responsible for owning all aspects of the calibration program. They work with quality assurance engineers and manufacturing staff to ensure inspection and testing measures are implemented and maintained. They also assist in the development of standards to meet quality specifications.

The Senior Quality Assurance Technician ensures everyone's success by coaching and guiding other team members.

Measures of success:

• Reduce days aging for Material Review Board (MRB) Internal Corrective Action Requests (ICARs) to < 10 days
• Reduce days aging for Material Review Board (MRB) Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) to < 15 days
• Perform 4 process internal audits annually
• Identify at least one new statistical process control ( SPC ) point in manufacturing cell to track product quality

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Supports development and maintenance of quality systems by writing quality plans, including dimension requirements and inspection specifications, by analyzing blueprints to determine critical dimensions
• Develops inspection and calibration procedures and techniques for quality inspectors
• Collects data using calibrated gages and calibrated coordinate measurement machine (CMM) for inspection of materials
• Uses data to program CMM and analyze for trends
• Generates and creates internal and supplier corrective and preventative actions within quality software that specify issue needing root cause analysis
• Determines that packing slips and certificates of conformance meet receiver requirements
• Prints out inspection worksheets that detail critical to fit dimensions on part drawings
• Reviews chemicals and mechanicals on test reports submitted by supplier to verify product measurements
• Maintains 7-year cycle of archived documents per International Organization for Standardization (ISO) quality requirements
• Follows instructions from Quality Assurance Engineer for collecting and circulating out gages for calibration, according to due date schedule
• Performs hydro inspection, final inspection, in-process inspection and non-destructive examinations (NDEs) as needed within production cells and/or Engineering Lab
• Performs visual, magnetic particle and liquid penetrant examinations, using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) tools as needed
• Conducts various advanced tests within the Engineering Test Lab to ensure product fulfills or exceeds set quality standards
• Performs failure analysis by e xamin ing and analyz ing damaged and/ or warranty returned product to identify extent of problems involved and ideal way to repair
• Collects and analyzes new and returned product samples and records data from analysis
• Writes, interprets, and puts into practice the organization’s quality standards and procedures to ISO
  9001:2015 revision updates
• Ensure s team adheres to company policies, practices and department standards
• Coaches and guides team by reviewing work quality, a ssign ing actions and ensur ing task completion

Qualifications

Required:

• Up to 2 years of formal post-high school specialized…