Quality Inspector - Atkore International : Job Details

Description

Who we are:

Atkore is forging a future where our employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and communities are building better together - a future focused on serving the customer and powering and protecting the world.

With a global network of manufacturing and distribution facilities, Atkore is a leading provider of electrical, safety, and infrastructure solutions.

Who we are looking for:

Atkore, a recipient of a Great Place to Work certification and a Top Workplaces USA award, is currently searching for a Quality Inspector based out of Pendleton, OR. Reporting to the Quality Lead, monitor operations and processes to ensure products are being produced according to standards. They review specifications, oversee processes and identify defects in goods and materials. Some quality control inspectors make suggestions to improve the efficiency and accuracy of machines and operations.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 1-3 years of relevant experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment. Experience in lean manufacturing or business system-based companies is a plus.

What you'll do:

• Perform regular audits in-process audits to ensure processes and products comply with standards.
• Run required tests such as dimensional, impact, burst, crush, and any other pertinent or requested test.
• Ensure all equipment is calibrated and daily plausibility tests are done and recorded.
• Keep a record of analysis, tests audit results, and any other Quality Documents
• Lead Quality New Hiring Training and Quality Training for Production Clerks.
• Support Production troubleshooting problems in the lines.
• Manage sample requests/returns (field returns)
• Support Material trials.
• Communicate problems to Production + QA
• Performing application testing following functional requirements
• Gathering and organizing testing metrics, including bug tracking, to support testing activities
• Coordinating and performing QA activities for release cycles
• Managing and maintaining test plans and test cases to achieve objectives.
• Ensuring proper maintenance of QA test environments
• Perform incoming inspection.
• Assisting with test automation efforts
• Perform QA Inspection in the PAD Reject

What you'll bring:

• 1-3 years of relevant experience, preferably in a Quality Assurance and Manufacturing environment.
• Skilled in a variety of precision measuring devices including calipers, micrometers, and custom fixtures.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint).
• All associates must embrace and foster an environment that supports our core values of Integrity, Respect, Excellence, Teamwork, and Accountability.

Within 3 months, you'll:

• Understand how your job will help deliver Atkore's strategy.
• Complete any required training
• Gain an understanding of your team and the areas you support.

Within 6 months, you'll:

• Gain an understanding of the current training materials and procedures your team owns.
• Work together with quality team members to identify short- and long-term process improvement ideas.
• Identify ways to strengthen the team's commitment to Atkore's core values of Accountability, Teamwork, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence.

Within 12 months, you'll:

• Create, update, and share inspection documentation as necessary.
• Collaborate with the operations team to address quality issues timely.
• Lead Lean initiatives to drive process improvements.

Atkore is a recipient of a Great Place to Work certification and a Top Workplaces USA award! We're committed to creating an engaged and aligned workforce that drives a collaborative culture. Our team strives for breakthrough results, stays focused on being standout leaders, and fully supports the decisions of the Company. We consistently live the Atkore mission, strategic priorities, and behaviors, all in a way that's consistent with our core values. Together, we build strong leaders who continually endeavor to move us forward.

Join our team and align yourself with an industry leader!

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)