Quality Technician

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The Quality Technician IV is an advanced support role responsible for ensuring operational quality integrity through expert hands‑on execution, escalation leadership, and stabilization of complex quality challenges. This role applies deep technical knowledge of inspection, measurement, process controls, and quality procedures to prevent defects, contain issues, and protect production flow in demanding manufacturing or operational environments.

The Quality Technician IV routine quality execution, taking ownership of complex quality activities, issue resolution, and execution oversight across products, lines, or operational areas. The role bridges Quality and Manufacturing by ensuring quality discipline is maintained even under production pressure. Quality Technician is a skilled trade professional position responsible for protecting operational quality through expert direct inspection, measurement, calibration, problem resolution, and production-quality support.

The primary focus of this position is ownership and execution of the plant’s gage calibration program. The technician ensures that inspection, measuring, and test equipment is carefully selected, calibrated, identified, documented, traceable, and available for production use.

• Serve as the primary technical resource for the plant’s gage calibration program.
• Maintain the equipment inventory, calibration schedule, and traceability records.
• Perform advanced calibration, verification, and adjustment of inspection, and test equipment.
• Ensure calibrations are completed accurately and by their established due dates.
• Ensure the proper selection, calibration, handling, storage, and use of equipment.
• Support manufacturing operations and product quality by completing product inspections.
• Maintain compliance with ISO standards, and internal quality management systems.

Minimal travel required (less than 5%)

High school diploma or equivalent required. Minimum of seven years of relevant experience in quality, inspection, manufacturing, calibration, metrology, or operational quality.

Associate degree, technical certification, or advanced coursework in quality.

Previous responsibility for administering a formal gage calibration system.

Experience with CMMs, and other advanced dimensional-inspection equipment.

Knowledge of ISO 9001, or other quality-management-system requirements.

• Knowledge of precision measuring instruments, including calipers, micrometers, height gages, indicators, optical comparators, torque tools, force gages, and CMM equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, blueprints, GD&T, and technical specifications.
• Understanding of Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), Gauge Repeatability & Reproducibility (Gauge R&R), and statistical process control (SPC).
• Advanced troubleshooting and critical thinking skills.
• Effective communication skills for training personnel and coordinating with suppliers, auditors, and production teams.
• Ability to collaborate across Quality, Engineering, Production, and Maintenance departments.
• Strong commitment to safety, reliability, and continuous…