Quality Technician...

Quality Technician

Location: Desford (3 days a week on site)

Contract length: 12 months

Role Definition

Analyze data and perform root cause analysis to ensure products conform to quality standards.

Responsibilities

•    Training and supporting manufacturing and quality team members in requirements, inspection, and test practices.

•    Producing inspection reports based on results of inspection analysis, participating in measurement systems analysis.

•   Collecting non-conformance data and maintaining and updating quality system documents.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.

Level Working Knowledge:

•   Utilizes quality indicators relevant to own unit or function.

•   Adheres to organizational quality management processes and practices.

•   Applies key aspects of continuous improvement processes and evaluates impact on quality.

•   Uses quality evaluation tools and techniques such as walkthroughs and inspections.

•   Works with quality assurance methods, tools and techniques.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Extensive Experience:

•   Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.

•   Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.

•   Productively balances speed and accuracy.

•   Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.

•   Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.

•   Employs techniques for motivating employees to meet or exceed accuracy goals.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Extensive Experience:

•   Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.

•   Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.

•   Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.

•   Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.

•   Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.

•   Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in

decisions.

Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.

Level Extensive Experience:

•   Creates processes with provisions to accommodate change.

•   Helps others adapt to changing environments and accept new situations.

•   Recovers from disappointments and setbacks.

•   Works effectively with unstructured teams, situations, or environments.

•   Leverages prior experience as a help towards handling changing situations.

•   Makes progress in an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty.

Manufacturing Processes: Knowledge of existing product manufacturing methods, technologies and processes; ability to execute, plan, manage and monitor the entire manufacturing process.

Level Basic Understanding:

•   Describes functional areas in a manufacturing facility.

•   Describes the roles and responsibilities of manufacturing areas and staff.

•   Identifies major phases and activities associated with a manufacturing cycle.

•   Obtains and interprets high-level manufacturing flow and documentation.

Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Knowledge of organizational standards, procedures and policies in manufacturing activities; ability to plan, guide, and monitor manufacturing processes for compliance.

Level Working Knowledge:

•   Contributes to the development and implementation of specific manufacturing procedures.

•   Investigates the need to refer potential exceptions upward for review and approval.

•   Explains the rationale for procedures and standards in own area of responsibility.

•   Participates in the implementation of manufacturing standards and procedures to one's own function.

•   Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.

Product Testing: Knowledge of product testing approaches, techniques and tools; ability to design, plan and execute

testing strategies and tactics to ensure product quality at all stages of manufacturing.

Level Working Knowledge:

•   Documents test process and results; prepares and analyzes defect-tracking reports.

•   Summarizes features of a specific product-testing process and associated procedures.

•   Tests components for compliance with functional requirements and established conventions.

•   Discusses and compares usability, safety and integration testing.

•   Develops product-testing procedures; participates in selecting testing environment and tools.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Knowledge of the concepts, principles and techniques of root cause analysis (RCA); ability to use a structured approach to identify the causes of undesirable consequences in a manufacturing environment and the changes needed to prevent recurrences.

Level Extensive Experience:

•   Investigates a broad range of problems, determines causes, and finds resolutions.

•   Recommends candidates for root cause analysis in spite of chaotic organizational conditions.

•   Develops corrective action based on RCA results.

•   Uses RCA techniques such as Re-enactment, Comparative Re-enactment, Re-construction.

•    Guides others to recognize repeat situations even when they are distributed over time or happen to different people.

•   Works with a variety of RCA approaches such as safety-based, production-based, process-based, failure- based, and systems-based.

Job Title: Quality Technician

Location: Desford, UK

Job Type: Contract

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