Quality Technician

Allient; Oshkosh (WI); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Allient Inc. in Oshkosh, WI, is seeking a Quality Technician to join our manufacturing team. You will perform diversified duties to inspect raw material and in-process items, audit finished products, and release for packing in alignment with engineering and customer specifications.

You will maintain records, support inventory and calibration tasks, and collaborate with Quality, Engineering, Purchasing, and Lab staff to ensure proper disposition of non-conforming material and timely reporting.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in quality or manufacturing roles.
• Knowledge of manufacturing practices and quality methods.
• Familiar with inspection tools.

Responsibilities

• Inspect and test product quality against dimensional, appearance, and performance criteria.
• Audit finished products and determine disposition of non-conforming material.
• Maintain electronic or hard copy records of inspections and test results.
• Coordinate with Quality Manager, QA, Engineering, and Purchasing to follow specs.
• Receive and inspect returned goods and assign disposition.
• Compile metrics on rework, scrap, non-conformances, and customer complaints.
• Assist in inventory tasks: enter data, receipts, issues, and stock movements.
• Support calibration recall reports and maintain records.

Skills

Manufacturing practices

Quality methods

Education

High school diploma + 2 years college training

Tools

Inspection tools

Job description

Allient Inc. is currently seeking a Quality Technician to join our team at our manufacturing facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin!

The Quality Technician will perform diversified duties to inspect raw material and work-in-process. This individual will audit finished products to accept or reject and release for packing and shipment to customers, in compliance with documented procedures and in accordance with Engineering and customer specifications.

Responsibilities

• Inspect and test for dimensional, appearance, and performance quality of product, determine applicable disposition of non-conforming material and customer returns, identify and tag rejections, and document all factors of the final audit/inspection process in accordance with established practices and procedures.
• Maintain various applicable electronic or hard copy records as evidence of task completion or status.
• Receive direction from Quality Manager and work from Quality Assurance and Product Engineering specifications, drawings, purchasing, make orders, and instructions to perform inspection and test operations on vendor-produced components and units.
• Receive and physically inspect returned goods. Request work orders, identify and distribute the returned goods to applicable departments such as Manufacturing, Engineering, or Lab for evaluation and to define the disposition (repair, replace, scrap, or return to stock). Coordinate that the defined actions are completed based on the defined disposition. Maintain applicable records and reports.
• Compile metrics as required and maintain documents with particular attention to daily product rework/scrap data, non-conforming material, and customer complaints.
• Confer with the Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, and Lab personnel on matters concerned with raw material rejections, returned goods, specification deviations, vendor quality characteristics, customer complaints, returned goods, internal scrap, and rework, etc.
• Perform a variety of duties primarily concerned with monitoring and reporting on Warehouse raw material inventory levels. Work from shop orders, bills-of-material, pick lists, and material requisitions to enter applicable data into the inventory control database and record receipts, issues, stock transfers, and shipments. Receive raw materials and purchased parts and assist the warehouse personnel in their receipt and distribution to production when needed.
• Work with Warehouse Workers and Material Handlers to verify, identify, and locate inventoried items. Verify accuracy of disbursements and production returns by counting, weighing, measuring, etc. Participate in the taking of physical inventory as assigned.
• Distribute planned preventive maintenance and calibration recall reports to all company facilities. Maintain electronic records.
• Identify age-sensitive materials during incoming inspection per defined procedures. Initiate Lab Test Request forms for material that needs to be verified for potential extension of shelf life. Physically extend shelf life of the age-sensitive material or discard per defined procedures if the expiration date cannot be extended.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience.
• Knowledge of manufacturing practices and methods, quality methods and techniques.
• Familiar with inspection tools.
• Equivalent to high school diploma plus a broad practical background with specialized training comparable to a minimum of 2 years of college.

To learn more about Allient Inc. visit www.Allient.com

Allient Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.