Quality Technician

Position Title: Quality Technician

Wage: $21.00 - $28.00/hour

Shift: 1st

Hours: 6:00am – 2:30pm (3 Days/Week) & 4:00am – 12:30pm (2 Days/Week); Flexibility Available

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QPS Employment Group has a great opportunity available for a Quality Technician at a company in Libertyville, IL. This is a direct hire position for 1st shift. Apply today! 

Quality Technician Responsibilities:
- Spend 75% to 80% of time on the floor assessing / reviewing operators to ensure SOPs are being followed, identifying opportunities for improvement and communicating with production leadership team findings
- Overlap with counterparts to ensure good transition of info from shift to shift
- Maintain inspection reports, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and control plans
- Gather data, info, pictures, and all other information and submit to Quality Manager for development of SOPs
- Ensure compliance to federal and state laws, as well as company standards and specifications
- Perform inspections across all stages of production
- Prepare and maintain quality data for review
- Evaluate data and draft reports, noting any relevant deviations from existing standards, and initiating corrective and preventive actions
- Identify areas for quality control improvement and implement new methods accordingly
- Communicate quality or compliance concerns with urgency
- Support the hands-on containment, sorting, and disposition of nonconforming materials
- Participate in RMA review of items with Quality Manager to determine disposition
- Participate in quality review meetings and give input on findings, results and opportunities
- Provide training on SOPs to production shift supervisors/leads and conduct audits on operators' adherence to SOPs
- Work in conjunction with production to develop QC standards and procedures
- Resolve any quality issues utilizing lean tools (fishbone diagram, A3,5 WHYs, etc.)
- Review all complaints received from customers with the quality and production teams to determine corrective actions
- Perform weekly / monthly layer process audits and submit findings to Quality Manager 

Requirements for Quality Technician:
-  High School Diploma or GED; 2-year degree desired 
- Solid understanding of quality principles, lean six sigma
- Willing to work 75% hands-on QC production support, and 25% office documentation processing
- 1-3 years of related experience in quality control, audits, and inspections in a manufacturing environment 
- Strong working knowledge of various mathematical concepts including fractions, ratios, and proportions
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds occasionally
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret information, detailed oriented and self-driven
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite
- Able to make decisions independently and confidently
- Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred

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