CMM Quality Technician / Programmer
Pay: $25.00–$40.00 per hour
Schedule: 1st Shift. | Flexible Hours Available | 8 am - 5 pm
Seeking a skilled CMM Quality Technician / Programmer to join our team. This position is responsible for ensuring manufactured components meet customer specifications and quality standards through final inspection, gauge calibration, and CMM programming and operation.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Zeiss CMM hardware and Zeiss software ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities
- Dimensional Inspection: Measure complex parts using surface plate layouts, traditional hand tools (calipers, micrometers, indicators), and Zeiss CMM programs.
- QMS Documentation: Log and track corrective actions, non-conformances, and calibration events within the QT9 QMS platform.
- Calibration & M&TE: Maintain basic calibration knowledge. Select appropriate Measurement and Test Equipment (M&TE) tools for various tasks, assess tool accuracy, and ensure standards traceability.
- Drawing Interpretation: Read and interpret blueprints, demonstrating clear understanding of critical, major, and minor part characteristics.
- Non-Conforming Material: Identify, report, and isolate non-conforming materials. Initiate resolutions when inspection errors or part deviations occur.
- CAPA & Auditing: Apply elements of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), including root cause analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and internal quality audits.
- Traceability: Understand and maintain complete product, material, and calibration traceability across all inspection stages using spreadsheet and word processing documentation.
- Sampling Plans: Apply basic inspection and testing techniques, including various standardized sampling plans.
Required Experience
- Education & Experience: Associate’s Degree from a two-year college or technical school, or 3+ years of equivalent work experience and/or training.
- Professional Certifications:ASQ Certified Quality Technician (CQT) or Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) is highly preferred.
- Quality Standards & Systems: Knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 with practical experience performing internal audits. Experience utilizing QT9 QMS software is highly preferred.
- Blueprint Reading: Strong proficiency in reading and interpreting complex part drawings, process specifications, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) symbols.
- Mathematics: Solid understanding of mathematical concepts such as probability, statistical inference, and the fundamentals of plane/solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Software & Tools: Experience utilizing Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Teams, Word) and modern Quality Management System (QMS) software platform applications.CMM
SPECIALIZATION & SKILLS
- CMM Programming: Strong preference for candidates with a proven track record of writing and editing new CMM programs from 3D CAD models and blueprints, rather than just operating them.
- Equipment Preference: Hands-on experience with Zeiss CMM hardware and Zeiss software ecosystems is highly preferred.
Benefits
- Plant Shut Down at year end (everyone likes this)
- 401k company contribution (3% of earnings) paid every bi-weekly pay period even if the employee doesn’t defer their own money and is 100% vested immediately
- Annual performance bonus of up to 5% of annual salary based on metrics/goals and the results (paid out 4.5% to most production departments recently)
- Annual profit share bonus from our HQ in Germany (Paid $2677 plus $54 per year of service to each employee this past May 19th – must be employed two years as of May 31 to get this bonus (paid in May)
- Wage increases scheduled for every January 1 (plus pre-determined pay progression plans for some new hires depending on the wage they start at)
- Full medical, dental, vision plan (no employee premiums increases for 9 years straight, and we haven’t stepped on the benefit design either)
- Ancillary benefits paid 100% by company (STD, LTD and Life Insurance for the employee and every family member)
- 2 weeks PTO/yr (pro-rated in year of hire) and 3 weeks the first of the year following one year of employment (4 weeks after 4 years and 5 weeks after 9 years)
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Pay: $25.00 - $40.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
