Quality Technician

Headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, Mac Lean Power Systems (MPS) is a leading manufacturer of mission-critical and engineered components for the electric utility, telecommunications, and civil markets. Established in 1986 as a subsidiary of a larger parent company, MPS has grown substantially and now operates as a standalone company. A dedicated workforce of over 2,000 team members worldwide, MPS is renowned for its commitment to quality, responsiveness, and safety.

Our focus on vertical integration ensures the highest standards across our product lines. We operate seventeen production facilities across North America and continually invest in our manufacturing capabilities to better serve our customers.

At MPS, we strive to create a workplace that embodies respect, openness, collaboration, personal growth, and entrepreneurship. We are committed to achieving excellence in Environmental, Health & Safety through our Mission Zero initiative.

MPS is seeking a talented Quality Technician supports quality control, receiving inspection, containment, product verification, and audit activities to ensure materials, products, processes, and shipments conform to company standards, customer requirements, regulatory obligations, and applicable quality management system procedures. This role is responsible for performing inspections, testing, data collection, documentation review, inventory research, and quality record maintenance to identify, contain, and resolve quality concerns.

The position collaborates with cross-functional teams to support corrective actions, continuous improvement initiatives, internal and external audits, and the effective implementation of quality system requirements. The Quality Technician is expected to follow established procedures, work instructions, specifications, and test methods while contributing to the development, maintenance, and improvement of quality documentation, inspection processes, and quality control practices to enhance product conformity and customer satisfaction.

This role is based on our Locust Grove, GA facility.

• Perform receiving, in-process, and final inspections of inbound materials, vendor shipments, manufactured products, containers, and outbound plant shipments in accordance with control plans, specifications, work instructions, test methods, and quality standards.
• Select and inspect samples, verify critical characteristics and dimensions, perform functional and visual testing as required, and accurately record inspection and test results in applicable quality, receiving, or enterprise systems.
• Operate, maintain, and verify the suitability of inspection equipment, laboratory instruments, gauges, measuring devices, and test equipment used to evaluate product conformity.
• Identify, document, segregate, and communicate nonconforming materials or products; initiate required quality records and support containment, quarantine, disposition, and corrective action activities.
• Conduct inventory research and material traceability investigations to locate suspect or nonconforming material, complete containment activities, and communicate findings to appropriate operations, engineering, quality, and management personnel.
• Support review and disposition of damaged, returned, or suspect products, including rework verification, re-boxing, relabeling, tagging, and associated material-handling activities.
• Verify receiving accuracy through review of shipping documentation, purchase orders, specifications, and system records; investigate discrepancies and support timely resolution of quality and receiving-related issues.
• Support internal, customer, and third-party audits through preparation of records, retrieval of documentation, participation in audit activities, and follow-up on assigned corrective actions.
• Maintain accurate quality records, inspection reports, test data, and controlled documentation in accordance with established quality management system requirements.
• Follow approved procedures, work instructions, specifications, control plans, and test methods while promoting consistent execution of quality processes across operations.
• Assist in the development, review, and continuous improvement of inspection procedures, test methods, quality documentation, control plans, and quality system processes to enhance product conformity and operational effectiveness.
• Communicate quality concerns, inspection results, containment status, and improvement opportunities effectively with cross-functional teams and provide timely status updates as required.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, problem-solving activities, root cause investigations, and corrective action implementation to reduce defects and improve process performance.
• Comply with all safety, environmental, quality, regulatory, and 5S requirements while performing other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• 3-5 years of experience in quality, inspection, receiving,…