At flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds.
our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.
through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose - to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.
job summary
principle accountabilities:
- audits processes, tests and inspects products and/or develops, compiles and evaluates statistical data to determine and maintain quality and reliability of products.
- working from engineering drawings, specifications, schematics, diagrams, written descriptions, layouts or defined plans to perform complex engineering testing, checkout, first article inspection, root cause analysis, internal corrective actions and supplier correction actions.
- interprets engineering drawings, schematic diagrams or formulas and confers with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards.
- selects processes to be audited from primarily the manufacturing areas and checks for a variety of features, including esd (electro-static discharge) and handling practices, documentation, training and process integrity.
- selects products for audits at specified stages in the production or post-production process, and tests products for variety of qualities such as dimensions, performance and mechanical, electrical or cosmetic characteristics.
- evaluates data and writes reports to validate or indicate deviations from existing standards.
- recommends modifications of existing quality or production standards, programs or reports to achieve optimum quality within limits of equipment capability.
- perform calibration on inspection tools e.g.
micrometers, calipers height gages etc.
- maintain gage track program, print list of gages due for calibration in the beginning of each month and follow up with calibration.
- send gages out for calibration, maintain calibration records
- prepares graphs or charts of data or enters data into computer for analysis.
- download quality information from quality system to be used for qa reports.
- analyzes engineering test results and implements process changes to resolve problems.
- performs out of box audits (oba) as required
- provides factory support to identify and resolve issues associated with purchased parts, materials and manufacturing.
- may be required to perform receiving inspection
knowledge / skills / abilities:
- demonstrates technical skills.
- requires basic competency related to function.
- demonstrates basic functional and/or process knowledge and participates in process.
- has awareness of flex technologies/ techniques.
- requires the ability to utilize charts, tables and specifications, and operate a variety of measuring instruments.
- basic understanding of typical quality tools, such as 8d, statistical process control, fema and control plans.
iso/fda auditing experience a plus.
- use of the following tools may be required: office skills: telephones, data entry, office software to include word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation package.
- ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
- ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
- ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
certificates, licenses, registrations:
- asq certification as cqt, cqa, cqpa or cssgb is desired
scope / impact:
- low impact; limited to the specific work area.
proactively assists supervisor in reaching goal/targets of line or department.
decision making / discretion:
- limited decision-making responsibilities.
makes guided or scenario - based decisions requiring management approval.
decisions affect individual task.
supervision / leadership:
- typically receives no instructions on routine tasks and general instructions on new tasks.
work environment:
- while performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and work that requires repetitive motion.
the noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
physical demands:
- while performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
the employee frequently is required to sit.
the employee is occasionally required to stand and reach with hands and arms.
the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and color visi