Quality Technician

Job Overview: You’ll be part of the leading experts in environment that pride themselves on grit, integrity, ownership, and innovation. Germfree prides themselves on engineering and developing innovative solutions that make an impact out in the real world. You will be test, inspect, and prepare documentation to support the approval of product at various stages of manufacture. 

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Test in-process and finished product against quality, design requirements and compliance standards. 

• Ability to prepare and review technical documentation including standard operating procedures, equipment manuals, and discrepancies. 

• Ability to perform quality control testing using calibrated instrumentation. 

• Maintain tracking of QC events and support tracking of key performance indicators 

• Communicate and coordinate with Engineering, Project Management, and production Teams to assess and document inspection requirements. 

• Inspect incoming materials for accuracy against approved prints and/or specifications.  

• Support functional acceptance testing of finished products for pharmaceutical, healthcare, or biosafety applications. 

•  Identity and support opportunities for continuous improvement.   

• Inspect incoming assemblies and parts against prints and/or fitment. 

• Inspection of product at vendor facilities as required. 

• Inspection of field-based product installations against quality criteria. 

• Assist in other areas of production as requested. 

• Travel as needed.  

• Other reasonably related duties. 

Required Skills and Abilities 

• Knowledge of basic math and 10-key calculator use to add, subtract, divide, multiply and figure percentages. 

• Ability to read and understand specifications, design documentation including prints and quality control inspection criteria. 

• Understanding of geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing. 

• Ability to work as a team with Quality Team Members and stakeholders such as Engineering, Project Managements and Production team members.   

• Ability to work under minimal supervision. 

• Detailed and quality results oriented. 

• Ability to learn to use and read measuring instruments accurately (velocity meter, photometer, tape measure.) 

• Ability to operate basic hand and power tools as well as a hand jack 

• Awareness of general safety principles in a production environment. 

• Reliable transportation to work. 

• Ability to complete tasks working with others and independently. 

• Work overtime as required  

• Physical abilities:  hearing; seeing; lifting, pushing, and pulling between 50-75 pounds; crouching; bending; twisting; kneeling; squatting; crawling; walking; standing for long periods; reaching in all directions; balancing; holding, grasping and manipulating very small objects; hand/eye coordination; use safety ladder; climbing; lay on a mechanic’s creeper and move about while performing tasks with tools; tolerate varying ranges of temperature in a Shop environment. 

Preferred Skills and Abilities 

• Experience working in a quality control construction 

• Active Driver’s License 

Education and Experience: 

• High School/GED 

• College Degree Preferred 

• Experience working in quality system environments based on ISO 9001 or other quality system methodologies 

• 2-5 years of relevant experience   

Supervision Required: Low – Ability to work independently and with others to complete tasks on schedule. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: None 

Why You’ll Love Germfree: We want to make sure that you can expect excellence from us as well, and so we provide the best work environment possible to allow you to love what you do. As stated before, we will give you everything you need to succeed, and will also motivate you to push yourself in new and positive ways. Whether this is meeting new people, working on projects you are passionate about, or innovating a process – we will help make it happen. A super hardcore work ethic, talent for building things, common sense & trustworthiness are required. At Germfree, you will get out exactly what you put in, and we know you can excel with us.