Quality Inspector

Protecting Human Potential

From supersonic flight to daily commute, Humanetics crash test dummies and sensory intelligence systems protect human potential in motion.   Safe, healthy, and productive lives:  when we innovate, humans thrive.

Building on seven decades of crash test dummy innovations to help automotive and transportation engineers ensure a safer future.

We are Humanetics.

Role Purpose: The Quality Technician is responsible for ensuring that Humanetics Safety Division manufactured and purchased components and parts meet all product quality requirements, defined from blueprints and customer quality requirements. Completion of these requirements through measurement and visual verification to ensure customer requirements are meet. Quality technician facilitates process standardization, reducing non-conformances and process variation with an emphasis on continuous improvement activities.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities: 

• Inspection of components and parts for manufactured, purchased and outside processing to ensure all design and customer specifications
• Inspection of components and parts with micrometers, calipers, comparators, gages (pin and ring) and other quality inspection tools
• Inspection and review of dummy paperwork and final dummy inspection to ensure all documentation match prior to shipping
• Inspection of components and parts with CMM (Wenzel), efficiently navigate CMM program (Polywork’s and OpenDMIS) and interpret CMM reports for component and part conformance
• Lead and suggest continuous improvement activities to ensure the quality department is working efficiency to achieve manufacturing and customer requirements for component and part specifications
• Create and update quality documentation (process sheets, work instructions, quality alerts, etc.) to standardize process improvements to ensure world class quality system
• Monitor all gages, fixtures and devices for maintenance and calibration requirements per the established calibration process and ISO specifications
• Complete non-conforming documentation and follow-up to ensure non-conformance is mitigated with department supervisor
• Complete all required quality process documents for first-article inspection, PPAP requirements and supplier review
• Recommend new test equipment for component and part inspection to improve quality and department efficiency
• Maintain a clean and safe work area to ensure world class quality, complete daily safety audits for quality department.
• Maintain 80% weekly productivity to ensure efficiency within the quality inspection department.
• Other duties as assigned

Critical Competencies / Physical Demands:

Critical Competencies:

• Ability to read and interpret engineered drawings and tolerance specifications
• Ability to properly use inspection measurement equipment, gages, calipers, height gage, micrometers, and other devices
• Ability to use hand tools; allen wrenches, wrenches, etc.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to stand and stoop throughout the shift to inspect parts
• Ability to lift and carry weights up to 50 pounds throughout the shift
• Ability to safely handle materials, rubber, vinyl, latex, metal, urethanes, and chemical solvents

Critical Competencies: 

• Oral Communication – Speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; listen and gets clarification; responds well to questions; demonstrates group presentation skills; participates in meetings
• Written Communication – Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively; able to read and interpret written information.
• Organizational Support – Follows policies and procedures; completes administrative tasks correctly and on time; supports organization’s goals and values; benefits organization through outside activities; supports affirmative action and respects diversity
• Planning/Organizing – Uses time efficiently; sets goals and objectives

Education and/or Experience:

• Associate Degree or equivalent from accredited technical institution
• 1-3 years of CMM operation experience (Polywork’s and OpenDMIS)
• 3-5 years machine part inspection experience in quality or equivalent field
• 3-5 years of quality related experience in manufacturing environment