Manufacturing Quality Technician

TE Connectivity; Landisville (PA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

TE Connectivity is seeking a Manufacturing Quality Technician to support manufacturing and customer quality by controlling nonconforming material, performing inspections, and maintaining calibration programs. You will work closely with production, quality engineering, and suppliers to ensure products meet requirements.

This role involves reviewing NMRs, initiating dispositions, participating in 8D investigations, and driving supplier quality actions.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Six months to one year of related quality inspection, laboratory, manufacturing, or technical experience and/or training required.
• Familiarity with commonly accepted laboratory testing concepts, practices, and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Review material in hold areas and verify proper identification and control.
• Review nonconforming material reports (NMRs) and complete disposition records.
• Collaborate to contain issues, investigate root cause, and support 8D activity.
• Coordinate proposed material dispositions with engineering or management when appropriate.
• Identify trends and communicate corrective actions for Quality reporting.
• Collect representative samples for training and workmanship standards.
• Monitor SAP incoming inspection requirements and perform tests per procedures.
• Record results and communicate acceptance to the distribution center.
• Escalate failed inspections and support supplier rejection processing.
• Notify suppliers of failed results and manage supplier complaints.

Skills

Reading specs

Dimensional measurement

Laboratory testing

MS Word & Excel

Education

High school diploma or GED

Quality-related training (6mo–1yr)

Tools

Microscopes

Micrometers

Calipers

Tool scopes

Scales

Microsoft Word

Excel

Job description

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Overview

The Manufacturing Quality Technician supports manufacturing and customer quality by controlling nonconforming material, performing incoming and laboratory inspections, maintaining calibration and inspection-control systems, supporting supplier quality activities, and providing timely escalation of quality risks. The role works closely with Production, Quality Engineering, Process Engineering, suppliers, and Quality Management to ensure products and processes meet applicable requirements.

Responsibilities

• Review material in hold areas and verify that product is properly identified and controlled in accordance with applicable procedures.


• Review nonconforming material reports (NMRs), verify inspection results, initiate new NMRs when required, and complete disposition records in the NMR database.


• Collaborate at the point of occurrence with Production and Quality Engineering to establish containment, investigate root cause, and support 8D activity through root-cause verification.


• Coordinate proposed material dispositions with Quality Engineering, Process Engineering, or management when prior approval is appropriate.


• Identify trends and potential problem areas, communicate needed corrective actions, and provide information for Quality Operating System reporting.


• Collect representative samples for visual aids, training, and production-floor workmanship standards.


• Monitor incoming inspection requirements in SAP for Plant 1081 and perform required inspection and testing in accordance with applicable procedures and specifications.


• Record incoming inspection results in the designated tracking system and communicate acceptance to the appropriate distribution center contact.


• Immediately escalae failed inspections to the responsible Quality Engineer and Quality Manager; create the required SAP quality notification and support supplier rejection processing.


• Notify suppliers of failed incoming material or component results, open and maintain supplier complaint records, and follow up on return material authorizations or credit notes as applicable.


• Drive timely closure of supplier complaints and trigger escalation to the Supplier Quality Engineering organization when suppliers are non-responsive.


• Coordinate with calibration service providers to maintain the monthly calibration schedule and verify completion by required dates.


• Review out-of-tolerance calibration conditions, notify Quality Engineering or Quality Management, support deviation activity, and arrange replacement or removal from service when required.


• Complete the monthly calibration scorecard and calibration audit.


• Monitor open gage-order requests and follow up to support timely delivery and closure.


• Perform rotating x-ray verification testing on operating desktop x-ray machines, document results, and immediately remove failed units from service and elevate the failure.


• Issue, replace, track, and audit inspection identifier stamps in the designated control log.


• Perform required in-process, finished-product, quality-lab, and RBY lab testing as assigned, using the sample size and acceptance criteria specified by the applicable requirement.


• Complete scheduled RBY tape audits, document results, and escalade failures to Quality Engineering or Quality Management.


• Support internal, external, product, process, safety, and compliance audits as assigned.


• Provide sample testing and other technical support for Quality Engineering projects.


• Review the applicable Job Safety Analysis before collecting samples or performing testing work.


• Scan and retain raw material certificates in the designated system.

Education And Experience

What your background should look like

• High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED) required.


• Six months to one year of related quality inspection, laboratory, manufacturing, or technical experience and/or training required.


• Familiarity with commonly accepted laboratory testing concepts, practices, and procedures.

Technical Skills

• Ability to read and interpret policies, procedures, technical drawings, specifications, and other job-related documents.


• Ability to interpret dimensional requirements and apply basic mathematics to inspection and testing activities.


• Ability to use precision and laboratory measurement equipment, including microscopes, micrometers, calipers, tool scopes, and scales.


• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel; ability to accurately enter and maintain quality records in electronic systems.


• Ability to follow detailed written and verbal instructions, recognize nonconforming conditions, and address problems efficiently.

Competencies

About Te Connectivity

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Compensation

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $44,500 - 66,700 (subject to change dependent on physical location)


• Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.


• Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.