Career Opportunities at Rochester Gear, Inc.

Job Type: Hourly, Full Time (40hrs), 1st Shift

Hours vary between 6:15am-3:45pm to ensure quality coverage for staff

Position Summary:

This is a hands-on role that involves collaboration with the Quality Manager, engineers, and machinists to ensure superior quality parts are being produced. We are seeking a dedicated and experienced person to champion these duties, and help maintain the workflow of the quality lab. The Quality Inspector will be the primary employee at Rochester Gear to perform daily first piece inspections, and sampling within job sequences throughout the day. They will also operate gear inspection equipment and implement knowledge of gear inspection techniques and procedures.

We are seeking the right person to continue a long-term career of applied inspection, and advance their technical skills and experience evaluating the gears we manufacture.

Rochester Gear has received a Certificate of Registration #FM 538284, which complies with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015.

Essential Job Functions:

• Responsible for incoming, first piece, in-process and final inspections of parts.
• Collaborate and report to Quality Manager on work flow status and equipment needs.
• Perform calibration and training, when Quality Manager is unable to do so.
• Be ready and willing to manually measure dimensions, such as lengths, diameters, runout, and gear features using micrometers, height stands, redline machines, and indicators.
• Have a working knowledge of optical comparators and coordinate measuring equipment (cmm)
• Sets up inspection equipment to ensure accuracy, and maintain inspection records.
• Reads blueprints or specifications to determine dimensions and tolerances.
• Understanding of heat treat, plating and material, with the ability to read certifications.
• Recommend corrections, in addition to communicating with engineering staff on gear forming machines to eliminate defects.
• Validate own work to ensure quality, and follow company safety procedures; uses equipment and materials properly.

Skills and Qualifications of Experience:

· Background conducting inspection in a metal working environment is required.

· Minimum 5-year experience in a manufacturing environment (machine shop preferred)

· Experience with machining, metal fabrication, engineering, or metallurgy is desired.

· STRONG aptitude and experience with correlating prints and GD&T to actual inspection methods is a must.

· Ability to use hand tools for inspection such as (but not limited to) micrometers, calipers, and depth mics is a must.

· Experience with CMM and gear coordinate measuring machine is preferred.

· Must be self-motivated, able to work independently and desire to continuously improve on skill set and technical knowledge.

· Lift 25lbs of weight

Benefits:

· Packages available for Health, Dental, Vision.

· After 6 months of employment: Life insurance, and possibility of 401K profit sharing

· Holiday, Sick and Vacation Pay.

Additional Information: We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, status with regard to public assistance, religion, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, individuals with a disability, or status as a covered veteran, or any other legally protected class.

We look forward to hearing from you if you are interested in joining our team. Please submit your resume to HR@rochestergear.com.

Position will be posted when available.