What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Technician position at Zimmer Biomet?
At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.
As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talented team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels inspired, invested, cared for, valued, and have a strong sense of belonging.
What You Can Expect
With direction from the QA Inspection Supervisor(s) and Quality Management perform dimensional inspections on machined and molded components manufactured from internal and external sources per engineering drawings and applicable external standards. Maintains inspection equipment including Vertex and Vectors. Also maintains control of products on hold.
This is a lab focused quality control role. Visual inspections for particulates in solution will be a main responsibility.
This position is on-site 5 days per week with preferred hours: 7am - 3:30pm EST.
How You'll Create Impact
What Makes You Stand Out
None
Expected Compensation Range
25/hour - 31/hour USD. Overtime and weekends are expected.
EOE
As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talented team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels inspired, invested, cared for, valued, and have a strong sense of belonging.
What You Can Expect
With direction from the QA Inspection Supervisor(s) and Quality Management perform dimensional inspections on machined and molded components manufactured from internal and external sources per engineering drawings and applicable external standards. Maintains inspection equipment including Vertex and Vectors. Also maintains control of products on hold.
This is a lab focused quality control role. Visual inspections for particulates in solution will be a main responsibility.
This position is on-site 5 days per week with preferred hours: 7am - 3:30pm EST.
How You'll Create Impact
- Perform moderate first article, on-line and final dimensional inspections, working from engineering drawings, procedures and external standards, using typical inspection equipment such as micrometers, thread gauges, calipers, optical comparator, concentricity gauge, and height & depth gages.
- Perform receiving inspections of raw materials and component parts using, typical inspection equipment.
- Perform component testing utilizing various inspection equipment such as tensile testers, force gages and custom equipment including programmable inspection machines.
- Complete and maintain all QA paperwork in accordance with established procedures and manufacturing practices including the generation of first article reports, discrepant material reports, QA history log sheets and document change requests (DCR’s) as required.
- Support the qualification/validation of new products/process projects; perform specialized inspections to help engineering develop new products, gages and inspection methods.
- Follow written procedures and engineering specifications utilized for inspection and ensure they are kept current and adequate for the inspections performed. Provide feedback to QA Management on documents requiring updates or error correction.
- Interact with personnel from departments outside of the Quality Inspection department, i.e. Manufacturing, Materials, Engineering, etc, to improve on overall Quality of product entering into the QA Inspection department, reducing rejections found and reported in QA.
- Generate Non-conformance Reports for submitted product found out of specification.
- Coordinates movement/control/disposition of products that are under investigation for non- conformance.
- Coordinate shipment of Finished Goods scrap for destruction.
- Generate Quality Hold documents and coordinate containment of affected product.
- Publish various daily quality related reports Perform additional duties as assigned by supervisor.
- Using typical MS Office software (Word, Excel, and Outlook) create and perform simple data entry tasks and procedure changes as requested by QA Management.
What Makes You Stand Out
- Ability to use typical measuring devices (micrometer, caliper, comparator, thread gages, go/nogo gages and custom gages) and test instruments (pull and torque testers).
- Experience operating or programming programmable inspection machines (vision systems, CMM, etc) a plus.
- Working knowledge of sampling techniques (e.g., ANSI Z1.4.), Good Manufacturing Practices and other regulatory standards required.
- Ability to read standard operating procedures engineering drawings; solid understanding of engineering drawings utilizing Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing (GD&T) required.
- High school Diploma or GED required.
- Minimum of 2 years applicable experience required.
- Work experience in an ISO and/or regulated industry environment preferred.
None
Expected Compensation Range
25/hour - 31/hour USD. Overtime and weekends are expected.
EOE