What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Systems Technician position at Leggett & Platt?
We, at Leggett & Platt Inc., are searching for a Quality Systems Technician within our quality team to help support our bedding business. Did you know we have been revolutionizing the sleep industry since 1883? That’s right! In fact, we hold the original patent on a spiral steel coil bed spring, filed way back in 1885. Since then, we have been an industry leader in guaranteeing you get the best sleep possible. If you join our team, your work will ensure people across the world have a little more comfort in their lives.
As a Quality Systems Technician you will have the opportunity to identify and stop further processing of non-conformances related to products, processes, or the quality systems. Your contributions will have a direct impact on the business by making suggestions for improvement and verify the implementation of solutions. The team you will be working with is collaborative and innovative, and values challenging work and diversity of thought.
So, what will you be doing as a Quality Systems Technician?
Now that you’ve had a chance to learn more about us, what are you waiting for! Apply today and allow us the opportunity to learn more about you and the value you can bring to our team. Once you apply, be sure to create a profile, and sign up for job alerts, so you can be the first to know when new opportunities become available.
Our Values
Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.
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As a Quality Systems Technician you will have the opportunity to identify and stop further processing of non-conformances related to products, processes, or the quality systems. Your contributions will have a direct impact on the business by making suggestions for improvement and verify the implementation of solutions. The team you will be working with is collaborative and innovative, and values challenging work and diversity of thought.
So, what will you be doing as a Quality Systems Technician?
- Gather data as needed; oversee process improvements and any other needs associated with continuous improvement.
- Help ensure that Branch One meets Corporate Quality Assurance guidelines.
- Help ensure that Branch One meets and maintains our ISO 9001:2015 Management System Standards.
- Verify the calibration of scales and gauges as needed.
- Analyze and resolve quality issues as they develop including customer complaints and CARS.
- Inspect different items or loads of merchandise going to customers as needed.
- Assist with the analysis and document reasons for returns at Branch One.
- Responsible for inspecting/re-opening of crates, and roll openings, which are scheduled and have been crated or rolled.
- Assist all supervisors to ensure that products are made according to specifications.
- Assist employees with specifications on quality problems.
- Use SPC guidelines to gather pertinent information about quality.
- Ensure all supervisors in all departments are performing quality checks.
- Evaluate Branch One inventory as needed.
- Responsible for performing activities related to special processes and special studies and their effects on products.
- Responsible for rejecting all improperly packaged product in all departments.
- Reject and write up wire return documents to Wire Mill (0400).
- Evaluate Infinity checks and issue non-conformance reports on quality issues discovered.
- Perform ISO 9001:2015 audits on a scheduled basis; in addition to the lead auditor duties.
- Perform 1st piece approvals on product after changeovers.
- Perform capability studies on all new products and report their capability indexes to the Quality Systems Manager.
- Reject and write up Clips Returns documents to Vertex.
- Complete FAA, PPAP, and Beta runs.
- Intimate knowledge of the manufacturing process used by the company.
- Product familiarity, including the product structures.
- Good computer skills. (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to exemplify a cooperative attitude necessary to work with all departments and management team.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment.
- Some Knowledge of SPC, continuous improvement and total productive management.
- Ability to understand graphical data representations.
- Ability to occasionally lift and handle heavy bed units weighting up to 80-90 lbs.
- Ability to use various measuring tools repeatedly with high precision.
- Bachelor’s degree
Now that you’ve had a chance to learn more about us, what are you waiting for! Apply today and allow us the opportunity to learn more about you and the value you can bring to our team. Once you apply, be sure to create a profile, and sign up for job alerts, so you can be the first to know when new opportunities become available.
Our Values
Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.
- Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
- Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
- Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
- Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Veteran/Disability Employer
For more information about how we handle your personal data in connection with our recruiting processes, please refer to the Recruiting Privacy Notice on the “Privacy Notice” tab located at http://privacy.leggett.com