Quality Assurance Technican

Georgia  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Quality Assurance Technician

1. Collection of samples

  • Twice per eight hour shift
  • A MULE type vehicle is used to travel to the sample collection points. The total distance of travel is approximately 0.2 miles.
  • Bags of samples are removed from production tables (~36 inches high) and moved to the MULE no greater than fifty feet away.
  • Each bag may contain five pounds of material, and the total weight of all samples is about forty pounds.
  • The technician will transport the samples from the MULE to the X-ray laboratory receiving area approximately twenty-five feet away.
2. Preparation of samples
  • Filtration/Drying approximately twenty samples per eight hour shift
  • Sample slurry containers (6 oz.) require manual mixing (like a paint can).
  • The homogenous material is filtered at countertop level and transported to a drying oven about fifteen feet.
  • The samples are removed from the oven and returned to the filtration area to await the grinding step.
  • Grinding/pressing
  • Approximately forty samples per eight hour shift
  • Add sample to a tungsten grinding cup (~5 lbs.)
  • Place the grinding cup into a grinding instrument.
  • The technician will need to turn 180 degrees to complete this task.
  • When the grinding step is complete the technician will reverse the process for each grinding cup, and place the ground material into a tin sample cup for pressing in an automatic hydraulic press.
  • Each grinding cup requires washing, rinsing and drying after its use.
3. Analysis of samples
  • Approximately twenty trips.
  • The pressed samples (~ 5 grams) are introduced into the appropriate analysis equipment which is no greater than twenty feet away.
4. Data entry
  • Most of the data are transmitted from the analytical instrument.
  • Some manual data entry is required and is completed at a PC.
  • Computer time per eight hour shift is approximately thirty minutes.

5. Routine equipment maintenance

  • Replace gas cylinder (about one each week)
  • Vacuum laboratory work area each shift with a shop vacuum cleaner

6. Disposal of samples

  • Waste materials are taken to a dumpster using the MULE or dolly
  • Bags of materials are lifted from the MULE/dolly and placed in the dumpster.
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
14.07.2015
Project ID:
943306
Contract type
Freelance
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