Product Auditor - 3rd Shift

Overview

Velosity Forest Lake is seeking a 3rd Shift Product Auditor who will audit products in operations to ensure product conformance during manufacturing to improve First Time Right and On-Time Delivery performance. This is an on-site position supporting our Forest Lake location.

Shift: Sunday – Thursday, 11:30pm – 7:30am

Pay: The typical pay range for this role is $21.04 – $31.56 per hour. This role is eligible for a 5% quarterly bonus target.

Compensation transparency: This pay range reflects the base hourly rate or annual salary for positions within this job grade, based on our market-based pay structures. Actual compensation depends on factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal equity, business needs, and local market conditions. While the full range is shared for transparency, offers are rarely made at the minimum or maximum of the range.

Benefits: This position includes a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans; 401(k) with company match; PTO; holidays; and paid parental leave.

• A competitive compensation package with generous benefits covering health care, disability, life insurance, 401(k), and more
• Generous PTO offerings and 9 paid holidays annually
• Continued education opportunities through our tuition reimbursement program
• Great opportunities for growth and advancement
• An employee-focused environment that hires and develops talent based on our values

• Work cooperatively with all team members to achieve organizational objectives and KPIs (key performance indicators).
• Perform product-focused audits in operations (molding and second ops) on critical, high-cost, or products with known quality concerns (Corrective actions, MRBs, Complaints, RMAs, etc.) as directed by supervisors and leads across all shifts. Coordinate with personnel in both molding and second ops to ensure alignment between functional areas.
• Provide clarification and coaching to operations personnel in both molding and second ops to make quality product decisions while coordinating with QA and sustaining engineering roles to ensure product quality requirements are clearly documented and universally understood.
• Coordinate and train rework and MRB orders, ensuring instructions are adequate, coaching personnel to ensure expectations and requirements are understood, communicating work-order status to product auditors on other shifts, ensuring orders are completed effectively and efficiently, and auditing completed products for successful operations.
• Provide concise records of product audits and findings for daily shift reports and communicate relevant product information during shift handoffs.
• Collaborate with operations and engineering teams to identify opportunities for continual improvement, implement solutions, and monitor effectiveness.
• Lead by example in compliance with quality management, regulatory/legal, and safety processes and procedures.
• Maintain a safe and clean work area.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

• High School Diploma/GED or equivalent.
• Valid identification and the ability to work legally in the United States.
• Preferred three years of experience in injection molding and related value-add processes, with a minimum of one year in product inspection or quality assurance.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; effective business correspondence and reporting; working knowledge of Microsoft Office and IQMS; ability to coach employees with limited molding experience; participation in continual improvement projects.
• Injection molding technology and processes, including identification of cosmetic features of injection-molded and value-add processes; working knowledge of effective problem-solving processes.
• Ability to perform daily tasks safely; work independently with limited supervision; work effectively with all team members to prevent quality escapes and drive continual improvement and prevent recurring issues/non-conformances.

• Walking is required in office and shop areas. Sitting, standing, turning the head and torso, reaching, grasping, bending and…