Quality Technician Lead - Weekend Shift

About the Role

The Quality Technician Shift Lead serves as the key leader for Inspectors and Testers, ensuring quality processes, verification activities, and compliance are executed effectively and consistently. The role bridges frontline quality execution with Quality Engineering, providing direction, coaching, daily oversight, and escalation support, and strengthens organizational quality performance through standardized processes, strong problem‑solving discipline, robust inspection activities, and effective collaboration with manufacturing, warranty, customer quality, and engineering teams. Responsibilities include leading, training, and supporting Inspectors and Testers to adhere to inspection methods, sampling plans, workmanship standards, and QC requirements; acting as the daily quality lead on the production floor to make decisions on non‑conforming material, escalations, and inspection/test outcomes; and representing Quality in Tier 2 meetings to report defects, trends, escalations, and action‑item status. The Shift Lead conducts and oversees process and product audits to ensure compliance with QMS/EQMS/ISO 9001, leads containment and verification activities for internal and customer complaints—including quarantine and testing validation—and supports continuous improvement initiatives (Hi5) using structured problem‑solving tools such as 5 Whys and Pareto analysis. Additional duties involve reviewing inspection plans, control plans, pFMEAs, and calibration/tooling verification for alignment with processes and compliance, maintaining quality records, enforcing safety and 5S discipline, and providing backup support for Quality Engineers and other Quality Leaders as needed. • Lead, train, and coach Inspectors and Testers. • Serve as daily quality lead on the production floor, deciding on non‑conforming material and escalations. • Represent Quality in Tier 2 meetings, reporting defects, trends, and action‑item status. • Conduct and oversee process/product audits for QMS/EQMS/ISO 9001 compliance. • Lead containment and verification for internal and customer complaints, including quarantine and testing validation. • Support continuous‑improvement initiatives using 5 Whys, Pareto analysis, and other problem‑solving tools. • Review inspection plans, control plans, pFMEAs, and calibration verification for process alignment. • Maintain quality records, enforce safety and 5S discipline, and provide backup for Quality Engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸process audits
• ▸inspection plans
• ▸calibration verification
• ▸containment verification
• ▸continuous improvement
• ▸tier2 reporting

What You Bring

The position requires a high‑school diploma or equivalent, at least one year of manufacturing quality experience, and preferably a bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field. Candidates must possess strong problem‑solving skills using PDCA, 8D, A3, Fishbone, DMAIC, and be knowledgeable of EQMS, ISO 9001, lean tools, and standard work creation. Proficiency with PCAT, AS400, Wisper, calibration/testing equipment, Microsoft Office, and familiarity with IPC‑620 is also required; relocation is not offered and only candidates within 50 miles of the El Paso, TX facility will be considered. • Require high‑school diploma (or equivalent) and minimum 1 year manufacturing quality experience. • Preferred bachelor's degree in Engineering; strong knowledge of EQMS, ISO 9001, lean tools, and standard work. • Proficient with PCAT, AS400, Wisper, calibration/testing equipment, Microsoft Office; IPC‑620 familiarity. • Candidates must reside within 50 miles of El Paso, TX; no relocation assistance provided.

Requirements

• ▸high school
• ▸engineering degree
• ▸eqms
• ▸iso 9001
• ▸pcat
• ▸problem solving

Work Environment

Onsite