What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Documentation and FAI Technician position at Compulink Cable Assemblies of Florida, INC?
Description
We are seeking a detail-oriented QA Documentation and FAI Technician to maintain the integrity of our quality records and manufacturing specifications. You will be responsible for ensuring all Quality documentation (e.g., Quality Control Instruction, test reports, FAIRs, and Quality SOPs) is accurate, up-to-date, and compliant with industry regulations. This role is vital in providing the "paper trail" required for customer audits and regulatory certifications. In addition, you will be performing production First Article Inspection Reports to send to customers for Product “first piece” Verification per AS9102C requirements
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
- Specification Control: Review and maintain detailed cable design drawings, work instructions, and cut lists to ensure they match the latest engineering revisions.
- BOM Verification: Audit Bill of Materials for accuracy, ensuring wire gauges, jacket types (e.g., UL 1015), and tinned copper specifications are correctly documented.
- Regulatory Reporting: Prepare and submit documentation for Agency Compliance (UL, CSA, ETL) and maintain certificates of conformance for outbound shipments.
- Test Data Management: Collect and archive results from electrical, functional, and visual inspections, ensuring full traceability of raw materials and finished lots.
- Change Control: Manage Document Change Orders (DCOs) and ensure revised procedures are distributed to the production inspection immediately.
- Audit Readiness: Assist in internal and external quality audits by organizing and retrieving critical compliance records on demand.
- Validate In-Process & Final Inspections: Perform visual and dimensional checks on final cables and verifying product meets customer specifications.
- Validate Electrical & Mechanical Testing reports: Review continuity, resistance, and high-potential (Hi-Pot) test reports, and review tensile and elongation test reports on insulation and jacketing materials.
- Raw Material Validation: Inspect incoming receipts of copper, compounds, and shielding materials against Certificates of Analysis (COA) to ensure they meet procurement specs.
- Use Calibration Equipment: Operate and perform routine inspections using calibrated measurement tools, including calipers, micrometers, gauges, and laser micrometers.
- Review Customer Quotes and Flowdowns: Review customer drawings, specifications, and Quality flowdowns to ensure customer requirements are captured in Quality documents.
Required Qualifications:
- Education: High School Diploma or GED required; Associate degree in a technical or engineering field preferred.
- Experience: 2 years of document control or quality systems experience, ideally in a wire and cable or industrial manufacturing environment.
- Technical/Compliance Knowledge: Basic understanding of J-STD-001 and IPC/WHMA-A-620 standards or UL/CSA labeling requirements is a significant plus
- Software Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience using an ERP system (e.g., Epicor) or Electronic Document Management System (1Factory, Net-Inspect).
- Soft Skills: Exceptional attention-to-detail and the ability to communicate technical data clearly to both engineering and production teams.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to work in a manufacturing environment, which may include standing or walking on the production floor for 4–6 hours daily to verify records.
- Occasional lifting of files or small material samples (up to 20 lbs).
Compulink offers its employees a comprehensive benefits package including:
· Health, Dental, Vision insurance
· Company paid life and disability insurance
· Voluntary Plans
· Paid time off
· 401(k) retirement plan
Compulink is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabilities/Veterans
Must be US Person- Permanent resident or US Citizen.
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