
Quality Specialist
IDEX · Geismar, LA
- Level
- Specialist
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A specialist quality role at IDEX (industrial) in Geismar, LA. If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- CAPA, ISO 9001, Internal audits
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How this role compares
Against 1045 other live quality postings in the US.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)
Typical $95k–$133k, from 428 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 70%
- FMEA 41%
- Supplier quality 39%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 37%
- Six Sigma 36%
- SPC 36%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at IDEX
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
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?
- 4
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.
- 5
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.
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Responsibilities
None
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following
- ◆Plan, prepare, and manage ISO Quality Policy and the ISO 9001 certification/re-certification process.
- ◆Establish and maintain company’s Quality Management System, standards and specifications
- ◆Review customer’s
requirements
and ensure they are met.
- ✓Ensure manufactured components and assembled products meet company standards and objectives.
- ✓Ensure our products meet all regulatory requirements, both national and international.
- ✓Define quality procedures in collaboration with Operations.
- ✓Setup and maintain controls to ensure that proper quality checks are performed (i.e., internal audit program and checklists).
- ✓Own Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) processes.
- ✓Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reporting tools.
- ✓Calibrate and maintain analysis equipment.
- ✓Work closely with Engineering to define testing requirement to ensure new products meet customer’s expectations.
- ✓Ensure proper disposition of non-compliant materials, documenting reasons for non-compliance and working in collaboration with the Operations Director to improve manufacturing processes to reduce/eliminate recurrence.
- ✓Ensure Operations employees are thoroughly trained on proper quality checks.
- ✓Execute checks to raw materials and final product to ensure adherence to standards.
- ✓Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- ✓High school diploma or equivalent required
- ✓Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant work experience in lieu of a degree required
- ✓Minimum of 3 years of experience with ISO 9001 audits
Requirements
- ✓Valid driver’s license
responsibilities
and challenges.
- ◆Leadership. Willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- ◆Adaptability/Flexibility. Being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- ◆Independence. Develop one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- ◆Critical Thinking. Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- ◆Active Learning. Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- ◆Quality Control Analysis. Conduct tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- ◆Monitoring. Monitor/Assess performance of self, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- ◆Systems Analysis. Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- ◆Time Management. Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- ◆Service Orientation. Actively looking for ways to help people.
- ◆Getting Information. Observe, receive, and otherwise obtain information from all relevant sources.
- ◆Analyzing Data or Information. Identify the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- ◆Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings. Monitor and review information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- ◆Judgment and Decision Making. Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- ◆Documenting/Recording Information, Enter, transcribe, record, store, or maintain information in written or electronic form.
Physical
Requirements
- ✓General Physical Activities. Perform physical activities that require considerable use of hands, arms and legs and moving whole body, such as typing, grasping, holding, climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
- ✓Handling and Moving Objects. Use hands and arms in handling, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- ✓Ability to lift and carry 25 pounds.
- ✓Ability to stand for extended period of time.
Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around provi
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If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.
With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.
The Sr. Quality Specialist is responsible for ensuring that all company products meet or exceed our customer’s expectations. Duties include inspecting incoming raw materials and products to ensure conformity throughout the production process. When a product fails to meet our high standards, this role dispositions the product, documents reasons for the failures and works with the Operations Director to put in place process improvements to reduce and/or eliminate recurrence. This position is also responsible for developing and maintaining the Quality Management System and any/all external quality standard certifications that may be required (i.e. ISO 9001:2015).
Computer skills
- •Proficient in Microsoft Offices suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Preferred
- +Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software (J.D. Edwards) knowledge and proficiency
- +QMS software knowledge and proficiency
Skills/Abilities
- •Effective Communication. Communicating effectively through reading comprehension, active listening, written expression and comprehension, and speaking and oral expression..
- •Initiative. Willingness to take on
