What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Control Technician position at The Timken Company?
Job Description :
Your Career Begins at Timken
If you're ready for a challenging career that provides you with the ability to advance personally and professionally, look to Timken. Our associates make the world more productive by improving the efficiency and reliability of the machinery that keeps industry in motion.
Job Title : Quality Control Technician
Overall Purpose : To enhance product quality, reduce risks, and gain production efficiencies in accordance to industry and customer specifications while achieving delivery and productivity performance expectations.
Essential Functions :
- Follow all safety rules and regulations.
- Act as a role model, coach, and trainer for new associates to foster a team environment.
- Ensure that standard procedures are followed in all aspects of work.
- Monitors and evaluates production and supplier parts, sub-assemblies, and assembled bearings to determine acceptance status.
- Knowledgeable on different gauging methods as well as the ability to set-up gauge equipment and interpret readings.
- Monitor calibration and recall of calibrated measuring and test equipment in coordination with gauge / calibration lab.
- Ability to use instruments such as micrometers, indicator gauges, hardness testers and calipers.
- Ability to use computerized testing equipment.
- Collaborates with area and quality supervisors or managers to correct suspect or non-conforming parts.
- Assist as requested with 100% inspection of suspect product.
- Assist as required with investigations into root cause and corrective actions related to customer complaints.
- Able to identify, document, report and verify appropriate correction or other disposition of non-conformance items.
- Assist as requested with any customer or other outside visitor tours or informational visits to the facility.
- Generate and maintain appropriate quality records and reports.
- Interact with internal and external quality auditors as requested to ensure smooth flow of any audit process.
- Monitor and assist in the maintenance of quality system documentation.
- Regular use of computers for tasks including but not limited to, data entry, file storage / retrieval, and usage of Microsoft office programs (Ex : Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.) all while ensuring accuracy.
- Intermittent use of fork trucks to move product, as required .
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All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran / military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
