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The Quality Associate supports Midland Plastics’ Quality Management System and ensures that products meet customer specifications and internal quality standards. This role performs inspection activities, assists with documentation and corrective actions, and works closely with production, purchasing, and engineering to maintain product conformity. The Quality Associate helps maintain compliance while supporting the company’s commitment to integrity, respect, teamwork, accountability, and transparency.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Inspection & Verification
- Perform first article, in-process, and final inspections on manufactured parts.
- Interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and GD&T requirements.
- Use inspection equipment such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, pin gauges, Hexagon portable CMM, and other inspection tools as required.
- Verify product conformity against prints, inspection plans, and customer specifications.
- Record inspection results accurately and maintain inspection documentation.
Quality System Support
- Assist with maintaining documentation.
- Ensure inspection records and quality documentation are properly completed and retained.
- Support compliance activities when required.
- Assist in maintaining calibration records for inspection equipment.
Nonconformance & Corrective Actions
- Identify and document nonconforming material.
- Assist with containment activities, including segregation and labeling of nonconforming product.
- Support investigation of root causes and implementation of corrective actions.
- Assist with responses to customer corrective action requests (CARs) when required.
Production Support
- Work with production personnel to clarify inspection requirements.
- Help ensure operators understand critical product characteristics.
- Provide guidance on inspection methods when needed.
- Assist with creation or revision of inspection documents and check sheets.
- Provide hands-on support in Production or Shipping, as needed, once assigned quality inspection responsibilities have been completed, including assisting with daily operations and other tasks as directed by management.
Supplier & Incoming Inspection
- Perform incoming inspection of purchased materials or components when required.
- Communicate quality concerns related to suppliers to the purchasing and quality teams.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve inspection processes and quality documentation.
- Support initiatives to reduce scrap, rework, and quality issues.
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