Quality Technician

Full Time Morgan Hill, CA, US

6 days ago Requisition

Toray Advanced Composites (TAC) is a leading supplier of advanced composite materials for the aerospace, sporting goods, motor sport, and industrial markets. You will find our thermoset composite products on nearly every satellite, space launch vehicle, unmanned aircraft, military and commercial aircraft in production today. TAC also provides composites materials to industrial and recreational applications including mountain bikes, medical prosthetics, and sports equipment.

Our thermoplastic prepregs, known in the industry as Cetex®, are found in a wide range of commercial and military aircraft, including large wing structures and interior applications like seats and galleys. Our Cetex products are available in unidirectional tape or fabric form in a variety of engineered thermoplastic resins including PEEK, PPS, PEI as well as a full line of performance thermoplastics including Nylon, PET, HDPE, and PP.

The Entry Level Quality Technician I, will support Toray’s quality team in one or more labs. In this role, the Technician will uphold Toray’s quality standards which are set in place by the organization, the customers and management.

Four types of QA lab technician exist, broken up by the type of labor performed. Technician roles are filled based on need, but cross-trainings are encouraged for those interested.

• Familiarity with composite materials, specifically carbon fiber and fiberglass composites
• Knowledge of time and temperature sensitive (TATS) materials
• Use of Microsoft Excel workbooks to record and report data.
• Ability to read and follow written Lab Request instructions.
• Communicate discrepancies or non-conformances to Supervisor or Test Engineer
• Strong ethic regarding data integrity
• Usage of FIFO “first in, first out” for self-scheduling assignments
• Record and document work performed each day in “passdown” email to supervisor.

The following skills are not requirements at the time of hire, but any possessed skills should be noted.

• Knowledge of machining best practices for composite materials
• Familiar with Toray internal/industry standard tolerances for coupon geometry
• Use calipers and micrometers to ensure cut coupons meet required tolerances.
• Prepare samples through abrading, cleaning, and application of adhesive for testing.
• Maintain coupon traceability throughout multiple machining operations.

There may opportunities to learn and support other Lab Functions as needed:

• Document incoming material traceability information into Toray’s database
• Use of ply cutter to kit plies of prepreg required for panels.
• Layup prepreg panels for acceptance testing
• Layup test coupons with resin films, foams, and other aerospace materials
• Program cures into digital oven and autoclave and record the collected data.

• Use scales, calipers, and other devices to measure the size of prepreg/other samples.
• Use ovens/furnaces to perform prepreg testing.
• Use acids (acetone/NMP) to perform prepreg testing.
• Visually or otherwise inspect prepreg specimens to outlined criteria.

• Knowledge of machining best practices for composite materials
• Familiar with Toray internal/industry standard tolerances for coupon geometry
• Use calipers and micrometers to ensure cut coupons meet required tolerances.
• Prepare samples through abrading, cleaning, and application of adhesive…