Quality Technician

Overview:

Holley Performance Brands, founded in 1903, is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of high-performance automotive aftermarket products. Our portfolio of iconic brands powers enthusiasts and racers worldwide—from classic muscle and modern performance to off-road and powersports—combining a rich heritage of innovation with a passion for performance.

The Quality Technician supports product and process quality at Holley’s MSD manufacturing facility in El Paso, Texas. This hands-on role verifies purchased and manufactured components against approved drawings, specifications, and quality requirements; supports production teams with timely investigation and containment of quality concerns; and helps maintain the effectiveness of the Holley Quality System. The position works closely with Quality, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and suppliers to control nonconforming material, resolve issues, improve manufacturing processes, and protect customer satisfaction.

• Perform receiving, in-process, first-piece, final, and other assigned inspections of purchased and manufactured parts using approved drawings, specifications, inspection plans, and sampling requirements.
• Determine and document inspection status, including acceptance, rejection, rework, or escalation for disposition, within the authority and procedures assigned to the role.
• Use precision measuring and inspection equipment such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, go/no-go gauges, optical equipment, and Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs).
• Develop, modify, validate, and run CMM inspection programs using PC-DMIS; analyze measurement data and clearly communicate dimensional results and trends.
• Read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, tolerances, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) requirements applicable to inspected parts.
• Verify that measuring and test equipment is within required calibration status before use and report damaged, inaccurate, or out-of-calibration equipment immediately.

• Provide timely floor support to Operations Managers, supervisors, Team Leaders, and production employees by investigating and addressing quality concerns that affect safety, quality, delivery, or productivity.
• Perform containment activities when nonconforming or suspect product is identified, including product identification, segregation, traceability, inspection, and communication to affected stakeholders.
• Work with Engineering and Operations to evaluate product or process issues that may create nonconforming material, production disruption, warranty exposure, or customer complaints.
• Support verification of manufacturing setup, inspection methods, fixtures, test equipment, and process changes when requested.
• Communicate inspection results, defects, risks, and required actions clearly and professionally across shifts and functions.

• Ensure nonconforming material (NCM) is accurately identified, documented, segregated, and transferred to the Material Review Board (MRB) hold area in accordance with established procedures.
• Maintain complete and accurate MRB records and support authorized disposition activities, including return to vendor, rework, use-as-is, scrap, or other approved actions.
• Prepare internal nonconformance and corrective-action documentation and support cross-functional problem-solving using appropriate root-cause and corrective-action methods.
• Follow up on assigned corrective actions to verify timely completion, objective evidence, and effectiveness of implemented solutions.
• Support supplier-quality communication by providing clear inspection data, photographs, measurements, samples, or other relevant evidence to Purchasing, Engineering, and suppliers.

• Maintain accurate, legible, and traceable inspection records, test results, quality alerts, corrective-action records, and other controlled quality documentation.
• Participate in internal audits, layered process audits, product audits, and other activities that support compliance and continual improvement of the…