Quality Assurance Technician

Job Title:                    Quality Assurance Technician

Department:               Quality

Reports To:                 Quality Manager

SUMMARY: The Quality Technician supports the Quality and Engineering teams by maintaining calibrated equipment, managing Material Safety Data Sheets, supporting specialized in-house automated systems, and performing internal audits. This role ensures compliance, process accuracy, and readiness of quality‑related tools and documentation.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

• Maintain and update Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for all controlled materials.
• Manage calibration of tools, gauges, and equipment used by Quality Assurance and Engineering.
• Maintain and support specialized in‑house automated equipment that relies on custom software.
• Perform scheduled Internal System (IS) audits and support corrective actions.
• Track and report calibration status, audit findings, and equipment readiness.
• Work with Production, Engineering, and Quality to resolve equipment, documentation, or compliance issues.
• Support continuous improvement activities related to quality workflows and process control.
• Maintain records, logs, and documentation required for compliance and certification.
• Confer with engineers, technicians, production personnel, and others regarding testing procedures and results and to resolve problems.
• Overtime may be required to accommodate business workflow.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Must love guns!

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES  

None; may provide informal guidance to operators or technicians.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Previous experience in manufacturing, quality, or production support.
• Experience with calibration programs or equipment maintenance preferred.
• Ability to use basic measurement tools and interpret calibration requirements.
• Comfortable interacting with software‑driven or automated test equipment.
• Experience with audit processes or compliance documentation a plus.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and ERP systems.
• Bachelor’s degree a plus.

EXPORT CONTROL REQUIREMENTS

• This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

EXPORT CONTROL DETAILS

• US based job, US Person required

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Proficiency in the English language demonstrating oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from the Senior Management Team, employees in training and clients or customers.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis a plus.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Microsoft Office Application including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Unipoint, Syspro and CAD/Solid Works a plus.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position requires the incumbent to stand, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl occasionally and regularly requires walking, sitting, talking, and using hands to finger, handle or feel.  The employee may occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job are close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate in an office environment. (Examples: business office with computers and/or computer printers, light traffic).

Employment with B.E. Meyers & Co. is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, Veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.