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Quality Technician
QPS Employment Group • Libertyville, IL 60048 • Posted 18 days ago
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In-person • Full-time • $21.00-$28.00/hr • Junior Level
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QPS Employment Group is seeking a Quality Technician for a direct hire position in Libertyville, IL. The role involves spending 75% to 80% of time on the floor assessing and reviewing operators to ensure compliance with SOPs, identifying improvement opportunities, and maintaining quality reports and control plans. This position requires a high school diploma or GED, with a 2-year degree desired, and 1-3 years of related experience in quality control, audits, and inspections in a manufacturing environment.
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
Qualifications
Required
- 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
Preferred
- Bilingual in Spanish and English
About QPS Employment Group
QPS Employment Group is a leading staffing firm in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, offering temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire job opportunities in various industries. They provide professional career assistance for job seekers and top candidates for employers, with a focus on matching the right person with the right job to positively impact lives. QPS also offers benefits for associates and safety training through QPS Plus for employers.
Full Job Description
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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