The Quality Technician/ CMM Programmer assures the consistent quality of production by developing and enforcing manufacturing practices and systems, validating processes, and providing necessary documentation to ensure quality excellence. In this role the technician will strive to achieve Quality Assurance operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews, preparing and completing action plans, implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards, identifying and resolving problems, completing audits, determining system improvements as well as implementing change.
The Quality Technician will perform the described quality activities throughout the manufacturing plant as necessary and on a daily basis. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- CMM programming by using CMM Manager Software.
- Create new or updated exiting CMM programs.
- Programing FARO ARM by using PolyWorks software.
- Inspection of incoming and outgoing products and materials to engineering specifications using basic test and measuring equipment.
- Perform visual and dimensional inspection of purchased parts, tight tolerance machined, fabricated and stamped parts, components, assemblies and materials using calibrated equipment.
- Perform first article inspection (FAI) reports and layouts on new and/or revised parts and components.
- Complete FAI reports with all dimensions and submit to Quality Engineer for data entry and verifications.
- Ensure that PPAP/FAI’s reports meet customer specific and/or internal requirements.
- Assist Quality Engineers with completing and updating PPAP documentation.
- Generate regular inspection reports (History Cards) as required.
- Generate in process inspection reports (IPI).
- Initiate nonconformance reports (NC’s).
- Learn & work in critical modules in QMS database Unipoint (NC, CPA, Inspection and Calibration Modules)
- Complete measurements for capability studies, and MSA (Gage R&R) studies as applicable for key characteristics specified on customer prints and/or customer specs, if required.
