Quality Technician – Santa Claus, IN – MFG – Santa Claus, IN

Qualifications:

Educational –

• Previous manufacturing quality or inspection experience.
• Experience with Six Sigma tools preferred.
• Completed Lean Intern program or willingness to complete at earliest opportunity.
• ASQ certification in a quality role a plus.

Leadership Skills

• Change Management
• Self Management
• Decision Making / Judgment
• Problem Solving
• Goal Setting
• Interpersonal
• Leadership / Coaching
• Negotiation
• Communication

Technical Skills Required

• Passed color hue test as applicable.
• Strong documentation skills
• Able to analyze data and make decisions
• Basic MS Office skills.

Interpersonal Skills

• Team Oriented
• Strong drive for success.
• Customer centric
• Possess a high degree of integrity.
• Ability to keep humor in the workplace.
• Ability to build & sustain relationships.
• Flexible and open to change

Communication Skills

• Good listener
• Good written and verbal communications
• Good presentation skills
• Negotiation skills
• Persuasive and credible
• Ability to teach processes to others
• Able to give balanced feedback

Business Skills:

• Good strategic planning skills
• Results focused
• Ability to meet deadlines

High Level Statement of the Role:

The Quality Technician is responsible for providing quality support for team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Data collection, analysis, and communication of in-house and supplier quality data.* Identification and communication of nonconforming product.* Assist with problem solving on recurring issues using effective problem solving techniques (i.e. Pareto analysis, Cause and Effect Diagrams, Statistics, Experiments, FMEA’s, etc.).* Assist with inspection, measuring, and test equipment requirements for all processes in their area of responsibility.* Provide inspection, sampling and process control requirements.* Document general quality information and specifications.* Auditing product or processes.* Clarify and communicating product specifications.* Be the central source of quality information and quality-related input. * Provide for training as necessary with regard to quality, inspection, and so on where the quality department has the expertise.* Perform incoming and in-process inspection and testing when required.* Participate in and drive corrective actions.

• Leads problem solving or corrective action activities.
• Analyzes FPY data and works with team to eliminate failures.
• Works with Area Manager and Process Engineer to develop team members
• Identify and measure local performance measurements in support of our Business Plan.
• Role models the Vision and Guiding Principles and

Corporate Goals of Kimball International.

• Support safety and environmental efforts to better serve our employees and community.

• Support our Quality Policy.
• Support our Environmental Management System (EMS)
• Works with team to improve performance metrics.
• Owner of OOBA (Out of Box audit) process daily.
• Provides feedback to teams on OOBA results daily.
• Parts inspection and verification.