Specific Responsibilities:

The QC Supervisor is responsible for assuring that raw material and manufactured or procured mechanical parts and assemblies meet company and industry quality requirements. Activities may include any, or all, of the following: 

• Receiving inspection, in process inspection, and final assembly inspection
• Logging and documenting inspection findings, generating non conformance reports and corrective action reports and driving closure of those reports, writing engineering change requests
• Design of fixtures and gauges utilizing standard geometric dimensioning and tolerancing principles
• Preparing material samples for analysis, and performing material analysis 
• Analyzing material dimensional characteristics and writing analysis reports
• CMM based inspection and CMM programming (Integrated Quality preferred)
• Assist in the design and implementation of policies and procedures for testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and/or equipment
• Ensures projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Acts as an advisor to quality assurance team regarding projects, tasks, and operations
• Has knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within the QC discipline

Requirements:

Education:  BS degree or AA degree and/or five years of industry experience.

Experience:  Requires a minimum of five years experience in a mechanical quality assurance or quality control position or equivalent applicable experience. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complex tasks. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.

Required Skills:

• Computer proficiency with standard Microsoft office applications
• Experience using all mechanical inspection tools and techniques including micrometers, calipers, height gauges, surface plates, and pin and plug gauges
• Ability to read and interpret engineering design drawings
• Proficiency with optical comparator use
• Ability to use and program coordinate measurement machines 
• In depth knowledge of, and capability to apply, statistical principles to daily work, including SPC
• CAD proficiency, preferably ProE
• Working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (ASME Y14.5-1994)

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with ISO 9001-2000, including internal and supplier audit capability 
• Supplier Quality Management
• Familiarity with CNC programming
• Supply chain performance
• Non conforming material process
• Quality gains
• Internal process improvement plan

This position has possible room for growth.

Applications Engineer I

PURPOSE:     The purpose of the Applications/Sales Engineer is to maximize company revenues by selling products that meet customer needs. 

Essential Duties:

• Identifies customer requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual clients, sales representatives, OEMs and distributors
• Responds to sales questions in a credible and responsive manner
• Assumes the primary technical relationship with the customer
• Supports distributors, sales representatives and sales department in implementing target market programs and closing new business
• Provides input to product feature enhancements and process improvements
• Coordinates administrative actions
• Able to react to change productively and handle other essential tasks as assigned

Requirements:

• BS Mechanical Engineering and one to three years design and/or related experience
• CAD experience (Pro E preferred)
• Basic knowledge of mechanical components
• Able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Good communication skills and great customer service skills