Quality Technician, TSSSA
Alstom · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Start free — we apply for you →- We invite suitably qualified candidates to apply for Industrial Quality Technician position under Services department. The position will report the Industrial Quality Manager and is based in Midrand.
Job Purpose
- To perform quality inspections and ensure product compliance with customer and internal specifications, preventing bottlenecks and minimising downtime.
- Deploy industrial quality standards across maintenance processes and support the maintenance activities to meet quality requirements and targets.
- Identify defects, isolate non-conforming products, initiate corrective and preventive actions and qualify cross functional teams on Quality Methodologies.
Quality Governance
- Attendance of Quality Governance within the project
- Consistency with Quality animation Top 5 defects animation. Analyze and find the root cause of repetitive non compliancy / reworks – QRQC methods
- Update and archiving of Quality records on SharePoint
- Train Cross Functional Team on Quality Tools/Methodologies
- Attendance and participation in the Special Process Audits and Maturity Assessments
- Attend the daily meeting in the workshop and animate Quality topics
- Updates of various performance reports
Quality Systems
- Maturity of APSYS and other Quality requirements i.e. QMS, Special process, Calibration of Tooling
- Maintenance Induced Errors MIE
- Quality Management System
- Supplier Quality Management
- Management of GSI, PST, SES
- Competency Maturity
Operational Quality Management
- Conduct monthly workstation audits to ensure production adheres to work instructions, validate measuring tools, check the calibration status and confirm compliance with Environmental, Health and Safety EHS standards.
- PFMEA and Quality Control Planning – Setting up and maintenance of quality controls for all activities. Ensure respect of the Control Plan and Self Inspection at each workstation.
- Definition of Quality Control Plan based on Customer Acceptance Criteria, Criticality Matrix, FMEA, CTQ, FMR/SMR/FAI, REX and Kx
- Quality Inspections – Incoming Material, in-process and final product number of reworks, missing parts, NCR, derogations, modifications, FAC
- Self-Inspection deployment and effectiveness
- Quality Inspection of final product before the release for delivery
- Joint Inspections with customer and sharing of EMD reports
- Workstation Audits – Plan and conduct Workstation Audit per audit plan based on criticality
- Non-conformity and MIE treatment – Create Non-Conformity Report in the GSI system and ensure the 8D Problem Solving Tool is defined up to CONQ
- Customer Interface Activities – Joint Inspections, Customer Engagements
- Return of experience at the workstation – to highlight areas of improvement & recommend possible corrective action.
- Create inspection reports for all inspected products and share inspection/audit outcome - closure and validation on reworks done
- Innovation and continuous improvement projects focusing on low performing Quality KPIs and CONQ reduction
Minimum Requirements
- National Diploma in Industrial, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Quality Management or equivalent.
- 3 Years' experience in quality inspections, use of measuring instruments and interpretation of engineering drawings.
Special Requirements
- May be required to travel and work in other service depots covering industrial and supplier quality support
- Incumbent may be required to work outside normal working hours
Closing Date
- 01 October 2026