Quality Technician -1st Shift
MSI Express · Hammond, IN
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Quality
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
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The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at MSI Express (industrial) in Hammond, IN.
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How this role compares
Against 23 other live quality postings in Indiana.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 42%
- Root cause 33%
- FDA / GMP 29%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 25%
- ISO 9001 21%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
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Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at MSI Express
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Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
Full description from MSI ExpressAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Primary purpose of the role
Ensure the quality of the products through daily line audits in order to effectively meet or exceed standards set by MSI Express, the customer, and federal and state compliance. There are certain core
requirements
that need to be performed to adhere to customer specifications regarding the checking of process and finished product specifications. It is Quality Technician’s function to approve batches to run, and to monitor that these core checks are being performed.
Key Accountabilities
- ◆Approve/correct batches – A mastery of basic lab techniques such as basic lab skills, ability to use math/formulas, use of testing equipment.
- ◆Perform lab checks- Quality SOPs are clearly defined and the monitoring of specified items is paramount.
- ◆Perform pre-ops and Preventive Control (PC) checks.
- ◆Notification of up line – If a noncompliance is found specific tasks need to be completed per SOP as well as notification to appropriate personnel.
- ◆Perform all required analytical test per the given procedure *Examples as followed: (VC, Salt, Brix, PH, DS meter, TA, Vit C, compare batch against control and sensory audits).
- ◆Perform all required physical test of raw material and finished product to assure that they meet the proper customer given procedure.
- ◆Perform special audits as needed for raw materials or product on hold.
- ◆This position has responsibility for Food Safety and Quality within their influence. The associate in this job has the responsibility to report, in a timely manner, Food Safety and Quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action on those problems.
- ◆Follow all company policies including but not limited to general manufacturing and safety practices.
- ◆Coach production associates on line data collections.
- ◆Perform any other duties as instructed by management.
Minimum Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- ✓Ability to work overtime as needed
- ✓Ability to follow work procedures and safety rules
- ✓Ability to stand, walk, bend, crouch, stoop, reach, stretch, step, climb and/or sit frequently or through the duration of the shift
- ✓Have appropriate eye, hand and foot coordination to properly use various
- ✓equipment and/or tools
- ✓Ability to lift up to 50 pounds
- ✓Pass all company testing
- ✓Ability to follow written directions
- ✓Basic computer skills
- ✓Ability to read and write effectively
- ✓Ability to process quality documentation accurately and within a timely
- ✓manner
- ✓Ability to work with minimal supervision
- ✓Effective communication skills