Quality Technician

Quality Technician

The Quality Technician ensures consistent adherence to the quality management system by performing detailed inspections, maintaining accurate documentation, and promoting a strong culture of quality and safety. This role supports in-process, final, and receiving inspections, collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, and contributes to continuous improvement in manufacturing quality and workmanship standards.

Responsibilities:

• Perform and support in-process inspections to verify product quality during manufacturing.
• Conduct final quality control inspections to ensure finished products meet all specifications and requirements.
• Carry out receiving inspections to confirm that incoming materials and components conform to quality standards.
• Review and maintain First Article Inspections (FAIs), control plans, and all related inspection documentation.
• Ensure strict adherence to the established quality management system and departmental procedures.
• Promote and champion a strong quality culture across the organization, helping build an engaged and quality-focused department.
• Support and maintain awareness of all safety policies and procedures, following them consistently in daily work.
• Interpret and work with engineering drawings, specifications, inspection requirements, and work instructions.
• Apply general dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) principles to inspection activities to verify dimensional accuracy.
• Use statistical process methods and tools to support manufacturing process control and quality improvement.
• Operate mechanical inspection equipment such as micrometers, calipers, drop gauges, and pin gauges to perform precise measurements.
• Program and utilize optical metrology systems, with experience in Keyence and OGP systems preferred.
• Effectively use microscopes (10–40x) to identify workmanship defects and surface irregularities.
• Maintain strong documentation practices to ensure accurate, complete, and traceable inspection records.
• Communicate effectively and collaborate with production, engineering, and other teams to resolve quality issues and drive improvements.

Essential

Skills:

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in a quality role within a manufacturing or similar environment.
• Associate's degree or equivalent education in a relevant field.
• Hands-on experience in quality control, quality assurance, and quality inspection activities.
• Proficiency with mechanical inspection equipment, including micrometers, calipers, drop gauges, and pin gauges.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and inspection requirements.
• Understanding of general dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) principles and their application to inspection.
• Basic knowledge of statistical process methods, tools, and their application to manufacturing process control.
• Experience programming and using optical metrology systems, with Keyence and OGP preferred.
• Ability to use microscopes (10–40x) to identify workmanship defects.
• Strong documentation skills to maintain accurate and organized inspection records.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Commitment to following safety policies and procedures in all work activities.

Additional Skills &

Qualifications:

• Experience promoting or contributing to a strong quality culture within a department or organization.
• Experience in both in-process and final inspection environments.
• Familiarity with control plans and First Article Inspection (FAI) processes.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced manufacturing setting with changing priorities.
• Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy in measurement and documentation.
• Problem-solving mindset with the ability to identify root causes of defects and support corrective actions.

Job Type &

Location:

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Minneapolis, MN.

Pay and Benefits:

The pay range for this position is $25.00 - $35.00/hr individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility…