
Quality Technician III-IV (multiple shifts)
Divergent Technologies · Long Beach, CA
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Quality
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- 17 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level quality role at Divergent Technologies (automotive) in Long Beach, CA.
- They ask for
- 5+ years
- Tools it names
- Root cause, GD&T
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
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 488 quality technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
California plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 33 other live quality postings in California.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 4+)
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 56%
- ✓ Root cause 35%
- ISO 9001 21%
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This plant: Divergent Technologies in Long Beach
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Full description from Divergent TechnologiesAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
for new or modified hardware.
- ✓Create and maintain inspection programs, templates, measurement routines, and inspection documentation.
- ✓Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing to develop practical, repeatable inspection methods that verify design intent and manufacturing requirements.
- ✓Identify opportunities to improve inspection efficiency, repeatability, measurement capability, and quality controls.
- ✓Update inspection methods as hardware, processes, or engineering
requirements
change.
requirements
following repair, rework, corrective action, or engineering changes.
- ✓Perform re-inspection and verify hardware following corrective actions.
- ✓Identify recurring failure modes and work with Quality Engineering and Man
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Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.
Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.
Purpose
The Quality Inspection Technician III–IV performs hands-on inspection, verification, and qualification activities supporting LPBF sub-assembly manufacturing and printer integration operations. The role verifies hardware and processes against engineering drawings, specifications, GD&T, work instructions, quality requirements, and applicable acceptance criteria.
This role performs complex dimensional, visual, functional, and configuration inspections using precision measurement equipment and calibrated inspection tools. The technician develops inspection methods and procedures, documents inspection results, identifies and supports resolution of non-conformances, supports qualification and verification activities, and provides accurate quality records for hardware acceptance and release.
The Quality Inspection Technician works closely with Sub-Assembly, Printer Integration, Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, Supply Chain, and Operations to resolve quality issues, implement corrective actions, and improve manufacturing and inspection processes.
This position may be filled at the Technician III or Technician IV level based on demonstrated knowledge, experience, technical capability, independence, complexity of work, and technical leadership.
Sub-Assembly & Printer Integration Inspection
- •Perform in-process, final, verification, and qualification inspections of mechanical and electromechanical components and assemblies.
- •Inspect sub-assemblies and integrated printer hardware against drawings, specifications, GD&T, BOMs, work instructions, and acceptance criteria.
- •Verify critical dimensions, interfaces, alignment, fit, configuration, workmanship, and assembly conditions.
- •Perform inspections following assembly, installation, adjustment, repair, rework, or engineering changes.
- •Support inspection activities associated with printer integration, commissioning, qualification, and release.
- •Identify conditions that may affect machine performance, alignment, repeatability, reliability, or production readiness.
- •Determine appropriate inspection approaches based on engineering requirements, geometry, tolerances, interfaces, and intended use.
Metrology & Inspection
- •Perform complex dimensional and geometric inspections using calibrated manual tools, gauges, and precision measurement equipment.
- •Select appropriate inspection and measurement methods based on part geometry, tolerance requirements, and inspection objectives.
- •Perform measurements of components, sub-assemblies, interfaces, and integrated printer hardware.
- •Evaluate measurement results for accuracy, repeatability, and conformance to requirements.
- •Identify measurement conditions or sources of variation that could affect inspection accuracy or repeatability.
- •Verify inspection equipment is appropriately calibrated, controlled, and suitable for intended use.
- •Document measurement results and maintain traceability to applicable hardware and requirements.
Inspection Planning & Procedure Development
- •Create and improve inspection plans and inspection criteria from engineering drawings, CAD models, specifications, BOMs, and process requirements.
- •Develop inspection methods, checklists, work instructions, and standardized inspection procedures.
- •Establish inspection points, measurement methods, acceptance criteria, and objective evidence
Qualification & Verification
- •Perform and document inspections supporting machine, sub-assembly, process, and product qualification.
- •Generate inspection reports and objective evidence required for qualification and verification submissions.
- •Compile dimensional results, inspection records, photographs, certifications, and supporting documentation as required.
- •Support First Article Inspection and other formal hardware verification activities, including AS9102-based documentation where applicable.
- •Review inspection documentation for completeness, accuracy, traceability, and technical sufficiency.
- •Maintain traceability between inspection results, part numbers, serial numbers, revisions, work orders, hardware configuration, and engineering requirements.
- •Support engineering reviews and hardware release decisions with objective inspection data.
Nonconformance & Corrective Action
- •Identify, document, and communicate non-conforming hardware and process conditions.
- •Initiate or support NCRs, MRB activities, deviation requests, root-cause investigations, and other quality-system processes.
- •Provide objective inspection data to support disposition and corrective-action activities.
- •Determine appropriate inspection
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