Quality Administrator

The Company:

Pacific Aerospace & Electronics (PacAero) is seeking a Quality Administrator to join our team. A successful candidate is committed to pushing the boundaries of technology, performance, and innovation. Join us and connect your career to the future!

PacAero’s core businesses include an array of electronic connectors and housings for the world’s most extreme environments. PacAero is primarily located in Wenatchee, WA with a remote manufacturing site, Bonded Metals, located in Sequim, WA. Working together, we employ proprietary technologies, best practices engineering, and specialized manufacturing techniques to produce hermetic connectors and electronic packaging that perform in the world’s most extreme environments. PacAero’s products are hard at work in medical components, such as cardiac-function devices, on key aerospace & defense programs, in space and deep below the earth's surface.

The Position:

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 6am to 2:30pm

Job Summary 

Performs the responsibilities below to ensure customer satisfaction and activities related to continual improvement of the Quality Management System. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Work cooperatively with all employees.
• Willingness to adapt work schedule to company needs.
• Consistently at work and on time.
• Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned.
• Observe safety regulations and follow protective equipment requirements. Report hazardous observations to your lead or supervisor.
• Comprehend and follow all parts handling requirements.
• Quality Management Systems (QMS) maintenance. 
• Assist Quality Manager in establishing, implementing and maintaining the QMS.
• Assist Quality Engineers with day-to-day activities.
• Assist Quality Engineers in creating company quality documentation (Quality Manual, QPs, AWPs, SOPs, etc.)
• Continuously improve all QC inspection processes and procedures. 

Quality Administrator Responsibilities

• Preparations and review of completed QC documents and reports, Inspection reports, AS9102 first article reports, Key Characteristic data reports, etc.
• Willing to adapt work schedule to company needs. 
• Interface with Engineering and Manufacturing to ensure transfer of new products to Production is in accordance with internal and customer requirements.
• Assist Quality Engineering in analyzing failures, corrective and preventive actions to respond to customer complaints and containments.  
• Support the Quality Inspectors to ensure that products and processes comply with the relevant requirements of the QMS.
• Review and approve disposition of NCRs as QC representative of MRB.
• Host internal RMA meetings and disposition NCRs.
• Review and approve shipment data packages as submitted by Final Inspectors.  

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 essentials functions.

Essential: 

• Read, write, speak and comprehend the English language.
• Good computer skills.
• Must be able to retain information.
• Must have legible handwriting.
• Dependability: Follows instructions, responds to management direction.
• Takes responsibility for own actions.
• Identify process improvements.
• Requires minimal supervision to perform everyday tasks.
• Demonstrates strong independent thinking with problem solving skills.
• Effectively give completion dates.
• Support company/management decisions.
• Offers help when needed.
• Understanding of the effects of process deviation.
• Able to advise management of policy violations.
• Seeks out duties to ensure you are consistently productive.
• Consistently meets company minimum labor efficiency rates.
• Ability to multi-task and make independent observations regarding the tasks at hand. 
• Ability to grasp new concepts without extreme repetition.
• Ability to explain/define problems or issues clearly.
• Basic understanding of blue print reading and/or GD&T. 

 Education/Previous Experience Requirements

• High School graduate or equivalent.

Work Environment

• Contaminants: Works with hazardous chemicals.
• Protective gear: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a requirement for safety. 
• Shift work: Must be flexible to work the following shift: Mon-Fri 7:00am-3:30pm

Physical Requirements:

• Standing/Sitting: Able to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time.
• Manual dexterity: Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination are necessary for manipulating tools and performing precise measurements with a Microscope.
• Precision and vision: Specific vision ability to have natural or corrected near distance acuity in at least one eye. Capable of passing the Jaeger Number 2 test and a color vision test.

In addition, all employees of PA&E are expected to

• Promote teamwork and cooperative effort 
• Maintain a clean, safe, and unobstructed work area 
• Understand and apply appropriate quality improvement processes