Quality Assurance Lead

As a Quality Assurance Lead, you will inspect, test, and audit product processes following set procedures and exercising reasonable judgment. Attention to detail is essential and requires your effective performance of a variety of quality assurance and inspection operations.

This role is located at our DCC, in Irving, TX.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job? 

• Perform Quality Assurance Lead operations (within procedural verbatim compliance) related to the test and inspection of electronic devices.

• Perform quality inspection operations following instructions and pre-established guidelines

• Creating work instruction for the Quality department, in collaboration with the documentation team and Quality Supervisor. ·

• Provide training to new and; or existence employees on 6S and work instruction. · Participate in weekly department status update meeting with department supervisor.

• Provides SIPOC training

• Tracking weekly tasks and metrics. · Provide ANSI/AQL results to external customer. ·

• Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.

• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.

• Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally. ·

• Lead and mentor QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers. · Develop and execute test, plans and procedures (manual and automated).

• Entering relevant data and audit/inspection results in our computer database · Provides process improvement feed back · Work on multiple programs and in multiple QA functional areas

• Serve as a resource for questions to other co-workers when supervisor is unavailable

• Documenting relevant facts and information to support work performed · Participating in continuous improvement and team building activities ·

• Maintain productive working relationships with all team members ·

• Performing other duties as assigned

What are the requirements needed for this position? 

• High school diploma or equivalent

• 3+ years of demonstrated quality experience

• Ability to lead and mentor QA team members.

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have? 

• 1+ year of previous experience working in a manufacturing environment

• 1+ year of Quality Assurance/Inspection experience

• Any verbatim written procedure compliance experience

• Familiar with basic electronic test equipment

• Strong attention to detail

• Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment

• Ability to interact effectively and positively with all levels of company personnel

What are the working conditions and physical requirements of this job?  

• Position requires incumbents to regularly sit at a desk and operate standard office equipment such as a computer and bar scanner

• Bending, squatting, kneeling, reaching, twisting, exposure to changes in temperature, being near moving machinery, and office machinery

• Employee is occasionally required to stand and walk, lift, carry and/or move up to 20 pounds

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus

• Required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• The noise level in the work environment is low, and it is an Electro Static Discharge (ESD) safe area; wrist strap and smocks must be worn at all times