Quality Assurance Technician

The Quality Assurance Technician will be responsible for inspecting products and processes to ensure they meet company quality standards. This role will perform measurements, tests, and visual inspections using tools, equipment, and technical drawings. This role involves documenting inspection results, identifying defects, and reporting non‑conformances. Quality Technicians support investigations into quality issues and may work closely with production, engineering, and quality teams to maintain consistent product quality and compliance.

Location: 1556 Industrial Road, Cambridge, ON
Dedicated Day Shift: 6:00am - 2:30pm, Monday - Friday

Job Duties:

Create and implement standardized quality control procedures
Communicate Quality Control information to all relevant internal departments, outside vendors, and/or contractors to develop preventative solutions
Monitor the performance of Quality Control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency
Conduct periodic product and process inspections; conduct physical quality control inspections on welded, machined and fabricated parts
Provide instruction on Quality guidelines and ways to eliminate deficiencies; recommend corrective actions
Create and maintain Quality Assurance control documentation and produce relevant reports: nonconformance, daily production quality, root cause analysis, quality trends
Review and update standard operating procedures or Quality Assurance manuals
Inspect and calibrate measuring equipment
Use measuring equipment such as Vernier, calipers and micrometers, height and other precision measuring gauges
Coaching and developing others

Skills and Experience:

Quality initiatives require collaboration with coworkers; effective communication and reasoning skills are essential when working on projects that involve multiple team members
Must be adaptable to a changing work environment, competing demands and able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events
Knowledge of drawings and specifications with an understanding of geometric tolerances and dimensions
Able to measure complex profiles using a variety of measurement tools
Experience or willing to learn equipment calibration and repair
Previous design or project experience in any of the following an asset: raw materials, machining and fabrication production processes, quality control, and the ability to read fabrication drawings

Qualifications/Requirements:

MUST have formal Quality education
Certified Quality Technician training is an asset or willingness to work towards certification