*** Job Description

RCR Manufacturing Solutions is currently seeking a skilled and detail-oriented QA Technician to join our team. As a QA Technician, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and conformance of our products to all specifications.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities for a QA Technician include the following but other duties may be assigned. **

1. Conduct thorough inspections of components to determine their compliance with all specifications.
2. Operate and program Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) accurately, utilizing GD&T principles.
3. Calibrate CMM probes, create custom probes, set up probe changers, and establish new calibration routines.
4. Analyze inspection results to assess compliance with requirements on drawings, demonstrating a strong understanding of GD&T principles (e.g., True Position, Profile, MMC/LMC, Circularity, Cylindricity, Straightness, Flatness, Concentricity, Runout, Perpendicularity, Parallelism, Symmetry, and others.)
5. Utilize various manual measuring tools, such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, bore micrometers, test/dial indicators, thread plug/ring gauges, and other handheld measuring devices.
6. Perform calibration on all manual measuring tools according to internal and manufacturing standards.
7. Utilize vision-based equipment, including Optical Comparators, Microscopes, or 2D profilers, for the measurement of parts or part characteristics.
8. Utilize lab equipment, such as form tracers, surface roughness testers, roundness testers, and others, for evaluation purposes.
9. Prepare accurate inspection records, including In Process Inspection Reports (IPIR), First Article Inspection (FAI) reports, Capability Studies, and more, as required by the company and customers.
10. Adhere to and uphold all current quality standards.
11. Effectively communicate inspection results with co-workers and supervisors.
12. Utilize basic statistical techniques to evaluate measurement data trends.
13. Demonstrate a basic understanding of machining processes to effectively communicate findings to the production floor.
14. Provide training on inspection techniques and tools when necessary.
15. Ensure proper filing of inspection results on the company server.
16. Maintain a clean and organized work area and machines at all times.
17. Perform basic weekly and daily maintenance of CMM machines.
18. Comply with all safety and quality system requirements.
19. Promote good communication and provide constructive feedback to other inspectors, programmers, and machinists across multiple shifts.
20. Embrace a culture of teamwork and continuous improvement.
21. Navigate the QC lab database effectively.

**To excel in this role, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies: **

1. Attendance/Punctuality - Consistently maintains excellent attendance and punctuality.
2. Dependability - Follows instructions and responds to management direction reliably.
3. Quality - Demonstrates a strong commitment to accuracy and thoroughness, consistently monitoring own work to ensure exceptional quality.
4. Safety and Security - Observes and adheres to safety and security procedures, promptly reporting any potentially unsafe conditions, and utilizing equipment and materials properly.
5. Requires exceptional attention to detail and the ability to interpret mechanical drawings and CAD models and specifications effectively.
6. Proficient in the use of desktop PCs and software, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
7. Training will be provided on company computer systems and the PCDMIS CMM and CMM Manager software as necessary.

Qualifications to excel in this role, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

**Education and/or Experience **

1. High School diploma or equivalent.
2. Preferably possess a college or technical degree (previous work experience will be considered).
3. A minimum of five years of previous experience operating CMMs.
4. Advanced programming and operation experience using PCDMIS driven CMMs (experience with CMM Manager, Camio, or Calypso will be considered).

**Language Skills **

1. Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Proficient in writing simple correspondence. Capable of effectively presenting information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning Ability

1. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Capable of dealing with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

**Physical Demands **

1. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

**Work Environment **

1. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

**Additional Notes **

RCR Manufacturing Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employee and wholeheartedly supports diversity in the workplace as a basic premise for business success. All employees of RCR Manufacturing Solutions are employed on an at-will basis.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job

Salary info:

$30 - $45 / hr