What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Technician position at New Flyer?
New Flyer is North America's heavy-duty transit bus leader and offers the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior® and Xcelsior CHARGE® brands. It also offers infrastructure development through NFI Infrastructure Solutions™, a service dedicated to providing safe, sustainable, and reliable charging and mobility solutions. Further information is available at www.newflyer.com.
As a Quality Assurance Technician at New Flyer, you will play a crucial role in maintaining the highest standards of quality for our transit buses. You will collaborate with production teams and customer inspectors to ensure compliance with internal quality control systems and customer specifications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Inspection of production processes in manufacturing of assemblies and sub-assemblies
- Read blueprints and use a variety of testing and measuring instruments
- Prepare written reports of all defects and submit to the production supervisors in a timely manner
- Complete knowledge of the specifications and customer requirements
- Assist the production supervisors and production personnel with any problems or difficulties which arise from specification, drawings, and customer requirements
- Work directly with customers’ inspection personnel in a courteous manner
- Perform all inspections on the coach and ensure inspection reports are complete
- Perform the release process and sale of coach
- Ensure the ISO 9001 Quality Assurance procedures are followed
- Follow up with vendors on nonconformance issues and audit completion, this is to include first article inspections
- Follows quality issues from identification through corrective action and follow up auditing
- Full knowledge of coach functions and can inspect to them
- Full knowledge and execution of rejects
- Perform receiving inspections and warehouse audits
- Perform all functions of SQA dealing with SCA reports, product review, auditing, corrective action, follow up
- Complete special assignments as required
- Complete work cell items and containment actions in a timely manner as they occur
- Must be able to train other technicians in QA processes
- Must maintain the 5S requirements as they apply to your job
- Must be able to attain CDL licensure
Qualifications:
- Experience in quality assurance or inspection within a manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Strong understanding of quality systems and procedures, with the ability to apply them effectively.
- Proficient in reading blueprints and utilizing various precision testing and measuring tools.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to multitask and manage priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Capability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Prior experience with Oracle database systems is a plus.
- Competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package.
- A continuous learning environment.
- Ability to advance your career with a growing company.
- NFI Group has been named a Manitoba Top Employer for 2020 and this is the tenth since the competition was established in 2007.
- Employee social committee organizes numerous events throughout the year, including summer barbecues, holiday festivities, sporting events and tournaments, and much more.
- Ongoing employee development through a variety of in-house training initiatives along with tuition subsidies for courses at outside institutions.
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