Overview

The Quality Specialist is a key contributor to the overall success of the company’s Quality Management System. The Quality Specialist generates and maintains quality system documents, performs internal quality system audits, and tracks training to ensure employees are kept current as processes are updated.

Responsibilities

Maintain quality system documents

• Updated existing documents as new information becomes available
• Log document changes
• Distribute the updated documents
• Remove the obsoleted documents

Generate quality system documents

• Under the direction of subject matter experts, generate inspection instructions to be used by Quality Technicians when inspecting product
• Under the direction of subject matter experts, generate work instructions to be used by employees when assembling and/or testing product

Support internal audit program

• Schedule internal audits according to the over-all plan
• Follow up with auditors to ensure audits are being completed in a timely manner and documented correctly
• Perform internal quality management system audits to determine if management processes are in place and functioning well

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Relevant associates degree and 3 years minimum similar experience or 6 years similar experience is required
• Prior experience with document management software (for example: QT-9, Sequence, DocuPhase, Optix, Qualio, DocStar ECM) is a plus.

 Skills and Abilities: 

• Read, analyze, and interpret a variety of information, such as technical procedures, business correspondence, and blueprints, furnished in written, oral or diagram form.

• Create and edit business-level written correspondence, verbally present information to supervisors and peers, and train employees.

• Use basic measurement instruments, such as tape measure, caliper, etc.

• Requires job related software skills, MS Office, and the ability to operate a variety of standard office equipment.

Working Conditions/Physical Demands: 

• Share duties between an office environment and a modern production facility with heat and air conditioning.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand, use hands to finger, handle, and touch; talk and hear.
• The employee is required to move around.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds regularly.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds on occasionally.