FULL DESCRIPTION: 

At MGS, we provide our team members with steady work, year-round, and opportunities to grow a lasting career while focusing on employee safety and promoting a healthy work environment.

In business since 1962, we build equipment that delivers well-engineered, reliable solutions for all kinds of transportation challenges. With a focus on superior quality and great people, we are proud to say we build things that last.

Quality Associate conducts activities concerned with the quality assurance of manufacturing processes, inspects materials and products, such as sheet stock, trailer parts, or components, and finished goods for conformance to specifications.

Quality Associate Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Inspect Finished Goods / Final Inspections
• Read and Interpret Engineering Drawings
• Read and Interpret Job Traveler information
• Understand the application and use of the MGS Quality System
• Navigate and use the MGS ERP System
• Compare product with BOM, Engineering drawings, checklists and / or other acceptance formats to ensure product conformity.
• Verify dimensions and functions
• Other Inspections as required. Raw material, purchased components, sub-contracted items, etc.
• Participates in First Article Inspection process
• Reject nonconforming products
• Assist in the maintenance of Calibration activities
• Participate in the Corrective and Preventive Action (CPA) process.
• Assist in the development of new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities.
• Communicate significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities.
• Participate in the Internal Audit process and Manufacturing Process Audits.
• Perform related duties as directed by Supervisor.

Quality Associate Qualifications and Competencies:

• Education and/or Experience
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED). Quality Improvement Associate certification from a recognized accrediting body or two years related experience and / or training; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Language Skills
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as Engineering Drawings and schematics, operating and maintenance instructions, procedures and work instructions. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with diverse personalities.
• Mathematical and Measuring Skills
• Ability to use small hand tools and measuring devices such as, tape measure, micrometer, torque wrench. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar and other graphs.
• Reasoning Ability
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet software; Inventory software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
• ASQ Quality Improvement Associate
  
  Other Qualifications:
  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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and 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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment may be loud.