Quality Technician

The role

The Quality Technician will create and execute inspection methodologies for electro-mechanical components, subassemblies and testers for solid state transformers. This role involves identifying nonconforming parts, supporting process validation, and analyzing data for corrective actions.

What you will do

• Lead the completion of quality trials to support new line validations.
• Drive the creation and maintenance of Quality Instruction documents.
• Serve as the on-shift subject matter expert regarding product specifications and quality criteria.
• Assist in the identification and resolution of manufacturing quality issues.
• Contain parts or products and sort parts for quality requirements.
• Support root cause issues, best practices, and implementation of corrective actions and countermeasures.
• Lead or participate in continuous improvement activities with engineers and external suppliers.
• Analyze and interpret failure and product data independently.

Required qualifications

• High school diploma.
• Skilled trades training or degree in electronic, mechanical, quality or equivalent demonstrated on-job experience.
• Experience with quality systems in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Experienced in APQP, PPAP, FMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA tasks.
• Knowledge basic statistics, lean manufacturing practices, engineering knowledge of GD&T, electronic test, and measurement systems.
• Ability to effectively communicate common issues and defects to leadership and assist with solutions.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment providing production line leadership and guidance.
• Ability to use IT systems such as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.
• Able to manipulate data in Excel and databases such as SQL.
• Experience with test and metrology equipment such as multimeters, calipers, oscilloscopes, microscopes, etc.
• Ability to perform physically demanding work for extended periods of time, up to 12 hours a day.
• Ability to stand and walk for up to 12 hours/day, including over varied and uneven terrain.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid sick days
• Paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits

About the company

Amperesand is building hardware and software to rewrite power infrastructure for a new era of energy abundance. The company builds intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products using medium voltage Solid State Transformer research.