Quality Lab Associates - Pinnacle Staffing, Inc

The Quality Associate will help perform lab foundry table audits, this will also include getting parts from every cavity at each table to have them X-Rayed and to help with sort activities in the quality lab.  This candidate may also assist in taking and recording hardness measurements, gas density samples, and inputting heat treat records.  In conjunction with the above task, the quality associate will support continuous improvement, participates within the cabbage patch process, and to help out in the lab and on the foundry floor by the direction of the quality lab manager.  

Quality Lab Associate Responsibilities:

• Ensures timely collection of foundry samples for routine testing throughout the shift
• Initiate sort activities, including data recording
• Record, interpret, and react to Statistical Process Control/capability studies
• Support continuous improvement
• Participate within the cabbage patch process when directed
• Self-Starter and independent thinker
• Assists in preparation of PPAP submission documentation
• Ability to use Microsoft Word and Excel
• Ability to think logically and methodically
• Ability to work and cooperate with others within the same department and outside the immediate department for the quality improvement and quality issues
• Ability to use Foundry and Lab equipment to prepare spectro discs and tensile specimens for lab evaluation
• Ability to use a spectrometer to check chemistry of aluminum alloy spectro discs
• Ability to perform tensile testing to measure strength and elongation of heat-treated aluminum alloy specimens
• Ability to measure hardness of cast and heat treated aluminum alloy samples
• Ability to ensure completeness and correctness of Foundry sample labels and quality documents submitted to the QA lab.

Quality Lab Associate Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Ability to communicate well, both written and verbally
• Minimum of Six (6) months prior experience in a manufacturing environment
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize work load
• Complies with all safety policies and procedures
• Works independently with minimum supervision

To apply:  In Person - in our office at 2203 Augusta Road, West Columbia or you may submit your resume to mpeterson@peakworkforcesolutions.com!

Please call 803-372-3419 with any questions!