Quality Technician
Amperesand · Reno, NV
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 16 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level quality role at Amperesand (industrial) in Reno, NV. In this role, you identify and address suspect or nonconforming parts, support engineering with process validation and containment activities, perform experiments, collect and analyze data to determine corrective and preventive actions.
- They ask for
- degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Lean, Root cause, FMEA, PPAP, APQP, GD&T
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Quality Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $50k–$70k.
Median of the low and high ends of 23 live postings that list pay, out of 401 quality technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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- Base pay
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- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $64k–$90k, from 45 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
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- Team leadership 42%
- ✓ Root cause 37%
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This plant: Amperesand in Reno
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Full description from AmperesandAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
About the Role
We are seeking an energetic, highly motivated, team-oriented Quality Technician to be responsible for creating and executing inspection methodologies for electro-mechanical components, subassemblies and testers for Amperesand’s solid state transformers. In this role, you identify and address suspect or nonconforming parts, support engineering with process validation and containment activities, perform experiments, collect and analyze data to determine corrective and preventive actions.
What You'll Do
- ◆Lead the completion of quality trials working with engineers and other technicians to support new line validations.
- ◆Drive the creation and maintenance of Quality Instruction documents.
- ◆Serve as the on-shift subject matter expert to support production regarding product specifications and criteria that define quality of the product.
- ◆Assist in the identification and resolution of manufacturing quality issues, contain parts or products as needed, sort parts for quality requirements.
- ◆Support root cause issues, best practices, and implementation of corrective actions and countermeasures.
- ◆Lead or participate in continuous improvement activities with engineers and external suppliers.
- ◆Analyze and interpret failure and product data independently, effectively escalating and supporting resolution of defects.
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Company Overview
Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.
We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.
And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.
We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.
Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.
Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.
With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
Join us in building the power foundation of the future!
What You'll Bring
- •High school diploma. Skilled trades training or degree in electronic, mechanical, quality or equivalent demonstrated on-job experience.
- •Experience with quality systems in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
- •Experienced in APQP, PPAP, FMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA tasks.
- •Knowledge basic statistics, lean manufacturing practices, engineering knowledge of GD&T, electronic test, and measurement systems.
- •Ability to effectively communicate common issues and defects to leadership and assist with solutions.
- •Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment providing production line leadership and guidance.
- •Ability to use IT systems such as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint. Able to manipulate data in Excel and databases such as SQL.
- •Experience with test and metrology equipment such as multimeters, calipers, oscilloscopes, microscopes, etc.
Essential Physical Demands
- •Ability to perform physically demanding work for extended periods of time, up to 12 hours a day.
- •Ability to stand and walk for up to 12 hours/day, including over varied and uneven terrain.
- •Frequently and repetitively, lift, push and carry up to 35 lbs.
- •Frequently and repetitively, bend, lift and reach to install parts.
- •Stoop, lay, bend, reach, squat, kneel, crouch, twist and crawl for extended periods of time, including up to 12 hours/day.
- •Climb and maintain balance on ladders, scaffolding or other high structures
- •Ability to find issues in a work process and receive safety signals using sight, touch, and hearing.
- •Wearing Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to: safety glasses, safety shoes, bump caps, arm protection, and adhering to prescribed safety rules and guidelines.
Reno Pay Range
$35 — $45 USD
Please note : This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options.
While this role is listed for the location above, we may consider candidates in other locations on a case-by-case basis.
Onsite Collaboration Rationale
Given the highly collaborative and cross-functional nature of hardware, embedded systems, and product development, in-person partnership across engineering and product teams is critical to enabling rapid execution, technical alignment, and successful development outcomes.
Why Join Amperesand
- •Work on next-generation power infrastructure systems
- •High ownership and visibility
- •Cross-functional collaboration
- •Opportunity to shape future products and infrastructure
- •Fast-moving startup environment
Pay Disclosure & Benefits
The benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United Sta