Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Nashua, NH, United States
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
Join our team as a Quality Inspector!
Third Shift – Sunday to Thursday 11pm to 7am
This role has a five day/week on-site expectation.
The Quality Inspector I is responsible to ensure product quality by completing first piece, in-process, and final product inspection while maintaining a record of all inspection data.
Responsibilities
- Read customer print to work order.
- Read customer prints and associated job documentation and ensure all requirements are met. This includes but is not limited to basic dimensions, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, surface finish, material type, and plating/finish requirements.
- Record and archive inspection results.
- Write up parts requiring reworks or remakes via non-conformance reports and route them to the proper operations.
- Complete first article inspection (FAI) reports when required by the customers.
- Maintains safe and healthy work environment by following all plant rules.
- Maintain organization and cleanliness in the workplace and ensure all tools are properly stored and accounted for when not in use.
- Perform other related duties as assigned
What it takes
- High school diploma or equivalent degree
- Able to comprehend and follow printed and computer-screen instructions, and direction from supervisors or technical leads
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Able to use measuring instruments such as scales, and calipers
- Able to work safely with sharp tools/objects, such as but not limited to, hobby knives, utility knives, diagonal-cutting pliers
- Able to use a computer and calculator
- Able to read and write in English, and do basic arithmetic
- Able to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented work environment
- Must be punctual and have good attendance
- Strong attention to detail is required
Bonus points for
- Previous experience in a CNC Machining environment.
Requirements
Physical Demands
While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to sit; use a computer keyboard, monitor and mouse, telephone and printer; reach with hands, and arms, talk, see and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, stoop or kneel and must be able to lift and/or move up to 50+ pounds.
Benefits
- We offer a competitive salary
- In addition, we offer amazing benefits including but not limited to:
- Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)
- Dental and Vision
- Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid caregiver leave
- You will receive 3 weeks of PTO, plus Holiday Pay and Volunteer Hours
- 401k with company match and immediate vest
- Employee Stock Purchase Program at a 15% discounted rate
- Matching grants through Protolabs foundation
- And More!
Proto Labs maintains ITAR-compliant operations in all of our United States based facilities. Due to ITAR regulations, this role is only open to U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status. Individuals with temporary visas (e.g. E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, TN or OPT) are not eligible for hire in this role.
Proto Labs, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Indoors (A/C); nonsmoking; the majority of this job function is performed in a manufacturing area exposed to machinery and noise; with eye protection and safety shoes required. Occasionally works in outside weather conditions. Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
- Role:
- Quality Inspector (Third Shift)
- Job Type:
- Full-Time
Company profile
Protolabs
protolabs.comProtolabs is a digital manufacturing company that provides rapid prototyping and on-demand production services for companies across every industry. It offers injection molding, CNC machining, 3D printing and sheet metal fabrication, with online quotes and free design analysis, and it runs Protolabs Network, a global network of manufacturing partners. Founded in 1999, the company used software that automated manufacturing to cut the time needed to produce molded prototypes, and it holds certifications such as ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016 and AS9100D.
- Company Size
- 1,000 - 5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Maple Plain, Minnesota, United StatesMedina, Minnesota, United States
- Founded
- 1999
- Founders
- Larry Lukis
- Funding Stage
- Public
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