Position Description
Legacy Job Code
EP26
Title
Quality Specialist III
Purpose/Scope
Plans and directs activities concerned with the development, application, and maintenance of quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished material or product. Quality assurance and quality control are important aspects to this job family. Quality assurance includes all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that an item or a facility will perform satisfactorily in service. Quality control includes all those aspects of quality assurance, which provides a means of control and measures the characteristics of an item, process or facility to established requirements.
Responsibilities
~ Guides and directs lower-level personnel on the set-up and performance of tests.
~ Acts as liaison with outside suppliers in establishing or modifying specifications for purchased items.
~ Devises and applies testing procedures for parts or sub-assemblies received from outside vendors. ~ Participates in the development, maintenance, and refinement of internal quality control and reliability programs.
~ Ensures that the company and customer's requirements are met on assigned products, programs, areas, or functions.
~ Recommends corrective action to quality problems.
~ Provides technical support and advises other engineering groups.
~ May work in any of the following areas of quality control/assurance engineering: design, incoming material, process control, product evaluation, inventory control, product reliability, research and development and administrative application.
~ Ensures adherence to company policies, procedures, and related government regulations.
~ Under general supervision, possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures to the completion of difficult assignments.
~ Applies advanced Quality Engineering theories, methods, and research techniques in the development, establishment, and maintenance of quality assurance/ control policies, procedures, and methods.
~ Leads project-wide system audits as directed by principal quality assurance engineer or program management.
~ Writes quality plans, procedures, and audit checklists.
~ Verifies quality standards and test procedures for the design and product evaluation to attain quality economically and efficiently.
~ Provides quality assurance support to ensure that products are acquired and installed in accordance with customer and company quality requirements.
~ Makes sure sampling plans, quality standards, and quality control instructions are utilized by manufacturing, test and inspection in assessing the quality levels of products and processes.
~ Provides recommendations concerning the disposition of defective materials and maintains a continuous awareness of quality problems.
~ May specialize in particular area of quality control engineering, such as design, incoming material, process control, product evaluation, inventory control, product reliability, research and development, and administrative application.
Minimum Knowledge
High school diploma or equivalent, Bachelor's degree preferred and 11+ years of experience in area of specialization.
Work Environment
Typical office environment with no unusual hazards, occasional lifting to 20 pounds, constant sitting and use of a computer terminal, constant use of sight abilities while writing, reviewing, and editing documents, constant use of speech/hearing abilities for communication, and constant mental alertness. Must possess planning/organization skills and must be able to work under deadlines.
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