QA Technician

  • Burnaby
  • Cellula

Cellula is looking to add a Quality Assurance Technician to its Quality team to support its growing list of engineering-to-order projects.

Cellula is an innovative engineering company that specializes in automated and tele-robotics systems; primarily for the offshore and subsea market space. Our solutions are designed, built, and tested in-house by a skilled team of engineers, technicians, and support staff. We take pride in what we do and work hard to bring the best value to our clients. We want to learn from the field so we can continually improve how we deliver solutions to our clients. To that end, we encourage the same team members who helped design & build our solutions to assist the client in the field with installation, operational trials, and service.

As the QA Technician, you will be responsible for ensuring company and customer quality standards are being met in a projectized, matrix team environment.

As a company, we offer team members a chance to grow professionally with ever-changing projects. Our office is a casual, collaborative environment where you will be able to learn about our state-of-the-art systems from technical experts. In addition, we offer flexible work hours, benefits, and competitive compensation. This position is primarily an on-site position with some limited flexibility for remote work.

Position Overview

  • Monitor product assembly & testing to ensure conformance to requirements, both internal and external
  • Ensure products meet customer expectations based on customer standards, as well as company ones
  • Identify areas for quality control improvement and implement new methods accordingly

Duties and Responsibilities

Inspection & Testing

  • Manage receiving inspection on incoming orders for compliance with quality standards and engineering drawings
  • Report quality anomalies to Quality team
  • Maintain calibration of quality control (QC) equipment

Maintenance of Records

  • Develop and maintain inspection reports for quality control of products, throughout course of the project
  • Support Engineering in the creation of test plans for quality control of products
  • Prepare and maintain test data for review

Maintenance of Compliance

  • Communicate the results of inspections and put forward corrective suggestions
  • Actively promote quality achievement and performance throughout the project organization
  • Help to achieve quality compliance objectives and industry standards, and ensure testing targets are achieved
  • Recommend improvement measures to the production process to ensure quality control standards are met

Required Skills & Experience

Technical & Software Skill Requirements

  • Previous experience in providing Quality Control support in a mechanical and/or electronics production environment: 1-5years
  • Hands on experience with manual metrology tools: 1-5 years
  • Previous experience in a projectized work environment: 1-5years
  • Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Outlook, Word, and Excel

Additional Skill Requirements

  • Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Highly self-motivated & directed, with a keen attention to detail
  • Advanced trouble-shooting skills
  • Able to prioritize & execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
  • Strong team-working skills, with an ability to collaborate with a variety of team members

Desirable Skills & Experience

  • ISO9001 quality control
  • Experience with engineering projects
  • Experience with ERP systems
  • Experience with writing and enforcing standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • Technical & business writing
  • Visio

Reports to :Lead Quality Representative (a.k.a. Quality Manager)

Position type :Full time