Quality Control Specialist

Quality Specialist California 

American Wire Group (AWG), the leading material supplier and manufacturer of wire and cable, hardware, equipment, and accessory solutions, has earned its reputation by offering exceptional customer service, delivering products of the highest quality, and ensuring timely deliveries.

We maintain the largest extensive inventory of wire and cable products utilized in the power transmission & distribution, substation, solar, wind, battery energy storage (BESS), and electric vehicle (EV) hydrogen-powered vehicle infrastructure markets across the country. AWG offers comprehensive services to our customers around the world, including cable management, cable engineering and design, supply chain management, emergency services, and more.

Our Technology & Innovation division (EVs, hydrogen-powered vehicles infrastructure) is committed to supporting customers material products of switchgear, transformers, wire, and cable in the implementation of innovative technologies within the energy and infrastructure markets. AWG has grown steadily and ventured into new markets, and we continue to do so.

At AWG, we are proud to be ISO 9001:2015 certified for quality management. From this foundation, we have expanded to provide emergency response services to everyone from government agencies to utilities worldwide.

The Quality Specialist (“QS”) will join our team to oversee the quality of all AWG’s products and services. The QS will develop quality standards, conducting tests and/or make observations identifying challenges, mistakes, or redundancy in the production of our products or services. The QS will work with the internal team to ensure that AWG products meet our organization’s standards across the board.

Core Responsibilities

The QS will:

• Ensure that standards and safety regulations are observed
• Address and discuss issues and proposed solutions with supervisors and managers
• Document quality assurance activities and create audit reports
• Make recommendations for improvement
• Create training materials and operating manuals
• Conduct cycle counts and location verifications; consolidate inventory as needed; follow company procedures for handling stock discrepancies
• Audit inbound freight for quality and purchase order conformance
• Audit labels and tags on reels; compare batch LRB labels with mfg. labels and cable print
• Quality check and sign off on all outbound shipments (accuracy, safety, weights, packaging, etc.)
• Ensure that product gets stored in warehouse, according to the layout plan
• Perform all physical requirements necessary to lift and move inventory around the warehouse
• Create and document non-conformance documents for all quality issues
• Work closely with cutting supervisor to find cable damage
• Create NC documents and keep records of vendor performance
• Work closely with shipping supervisor to ensure that all outbound material is quality checked with minimum delay, and customer labels display accurate information
• Continue to develop and build processes, techniques, and strategies to improve workflow
• Facilitate security integrity including setting alarms, and locking doors when facility is not operational
• Communicate with sales/engineering on product discrepancies or issues
• Assist in any other warehouse duties that may arise
• Attend training for duties related to position

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in training and experience

• Relevant training and/or certification as a Quality Assurance Specialist
• Proven work experience as a Quality Assurance Specialist or similar role
• Working knowledge of tools, methods, and concepts of quality assurance
• Solid knowledge of relevant regulatory standards
• Prior experience at applying quality assurance principles in a warehouse

• Understands shipping, warehouse, or inventory operations

• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent data collection and analysis skills

• Works quickly and accurately

• Pays attention to details that matter to the business

• Generates clear, concise reports that provides management with effective strategies for improvement

• Exceptional people skills: builds a culture of compliance and overcomes resistance

• Comfortable leading others through process-improvement
• Enjoys working as part of a team
• Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel programs

Benefits

AWG provides competitive salaries and hourly compensation. AWG offers eligible employees a full menu of benefits, including 401(k) (matched), health, dental, vision, life insurance, pre- and post-tax savings options, and paid time off. While working, the AWG team enjoys a safe, secure workspace that focuses on achieving maximum productivity. The company rewards those who show diligence and initiative about completing their tasks and welcomes innovative solutions and suggestions from the team.

AWG employees have plenty to do after hours and on the weekends.

Perris, California, an old railway city, has access to San Diego and world-famous Los Angeles. Perris offers fun, athletics, fine dining, and a taste of Southern California history. You can skydive, do a full day wine tasting tour in Temecula Valley or take a hot air balloon flight over Temecula wine country in Perris. On a hot afternoon, you might want to wander through the Southern California Railway Museum or sip a lager at Good Day Brew.

You might want to take a tour bus and head into the entertainment capital of the world. Los Angeles, home of Redondo Beach, Hollywood, Griffith Observatory, the Getty Center, the Huntington Library and Grand Central Market, highlights music, drama, and theater every day of the week. It is hard to match LA’s glamorous options for enjoying life.

Not too far away for Perris, in another direction, San Diego offers Sea World, Legoland, the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park. Visitors like to Whale Watch and visit the Birch Aquarium at Scripps to enjoy watching sea-life. Of course, San Diego’s restaurants provide opportunities to sample local and exotic fare. Jeune et Jolie, and Soichi Sushi are among the most celebrated dining places. Coasterra, located right on the bay, tempts with modern Mexican selections and a dazzling view of downtown San Diego. Café Coyote, El Indio, TJ’s Oyster Bar, Tacos El Gordo, Fernandez, and Lola 55 serve up traditional Baja-style seafood, burritos, birria and blue corn tortillas accompanied by tasty cocktails and beverages.