ADMINISTRATIVE/TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

Job Title

Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Description

You will develop plans and programs for achieving and maintaining product quality throughout the item's life cycle. You will monitor operations to prevent the production of defects and to verify adherence to quality plans and requirements. You will be responsible for analysis and root cause investigation of adverse quality trends or conditions and initiation of corrective/preventative action(s) and their long term effectiveness. You will collaborate with production, engineering, and other technical and administrative activities in developing plans and procedures for assuring quality and reliability of products. You will be responsible for review of work instructions, technical data to identify characteristics critical to product acceptability, and provide inspection and test procedures. You will monitor the quality of materials and supplies required to support production activities. You will participate in audits of products/processes for conformance to specifications and to detect processing/technical documentation deficiencies. You will recommend corrective actions, post audit, to include establishing acceptable quality levels and statistical techniques. You will verify product quality using sampling inspection or, when appropriate to the characteristics involved or pertinent quality history, more intensive product inspection techniques. You will investigate customer complaints and deficiency reports, and provide identification of causes to appropriate activities. You will evaluate procedures for maintaining control of drawings and technical data. You will coordinate the disposition of nonconforming material. You will monitor programs for controlling the accuracy of test and measuring equipment.

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