Quality Technician

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$17.00/hr - $20.00/hr

We are seeking an exceptional Quality Technician to join our growing Supply Chain team.

Are you passionate about turning ideas into reality, embracing ownership, and working at the forefront of connectivity? Join via Photon and be part of a culture that thrives on fearless innovation, teamwork, and continuous growth, where learning, unlearning, and relearning are part of the journey.

This dynamic role offers significant ownership and responsibility. We’re looking for individuals who excel in environments where their contributions make an impact, are hungry to learn, and are energized by meaningful work that drives company growth while accelerating their career. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

We are changing the norm by being customer focused, technology led.

via Photon is on an ambitious mission to revolutionize how critical digital infrastructure is manufactured and deployed. Best-in-class data centers and telecom providers need fiber optic solutions delivered in weeks, not months—whether that’s for AI infrastructure, 5G networks, or next-generation broadband. We’re reimagining fiber optic manufacturing for the AI era. Manufacturing is no longer just an operations challenge, but an automation and speed-to-market problem that customers urgently need solved.

In less than 5 years, we’ve grown to a team of over 150, and have added top cloud service providers to our growing customer base. We have only just gotten started -- our ambition is to become the market leader of the $40+ BN connectivity industry.

• Fearless Innovation we are pioneers unafraid to change the norm in relentless pursuit of better
• Forward Together we believe that when we work together toward a collective goal, we all succeed
• Integrity Over Everything we believe in long term relationships and doing what is right, always
• Nimble Always we are solutions obsessed, move fast, and stay nimble
• Be the Bar we set our own standard of excellence and hold ourselves to it

As a Quality technician, you will be responsible for overall quality of the raw materials and finished products either manufactured or outsourced.
This is for a 3:30PM-1:00AM shift. Your main duties include inspecting and testing raw materials and finished products to verify they meet all specifications and company standards. The person must be a champion of Quality to both internal and external customers.

• Support verification, validation, and reliability testing of products during the Product Development Process, research projects, and ongoing reliability testing (ORT).
• Perform inspections and testing of raw materials and finished products to ensure they meet all specifications and company standards.
• Operate and perform minimal preventive maintenance on reliability test systems such as thermal chambers, optical test equipment, UV test equipment, tensile testers, vibration test equipment, thermal shock equipment, twist test equipment, Hi-Pot testers, insulation resistance equipment, lighting surge testers, digital volt meters, dimensional measuring equipment, immersion and rain test systems, and related software.
• Manage multiple project priorities while collaborating with key stakeholders and effectively communicating data and results in standard formats.
• Generate detailed, accurate, and well-presented reports with excellent writing skills.
• Ensure all test and measuring equipment are calibrated, coordinating and scheduling calibration before due dates.
• Maintain and order inventory of critical testing materials, components, and accessories (e.g., test leads, adapters).
• Support the creation of procedures, 8D reports (root cause analysis and corrective actions), reliability reports, first article inspection reports, and quality status records.
• Focus on three key areas:
• Quality Assurance:
  Develop preventative systems to improve products and services.
• Quality Control:
  Inspect and test to maintain…