Quality Assurance Specialist

Quality Assurance Specialist

Sure Werx is a leading manufacturer of innovative safety, tool and equipment products and solutions. Since 1957, we've been trusted to keep all who use our products safe in even the most challenging environments. Today, our growing family of world-leading brands serves customers and partners across the U.S., Canada and Europe.

At Sure Werx, you'll have the opportunity to challenge yourself in a supportive, growth-oriented culture of industry leaders. You'll help chart our future as we continue to expand into new products, services and markets. And we'll invest in your career development, enabling you to grow and succeed.

A Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist ensures that products, services, or software meet company, industry, and safety standards before reaching customers. They are responsible f or structuring the QA approach in a product distribution environment, identifying / documenting product defects, conducting internal audits, and collaborating with teams to implement improvements. Key skills include a high level of attention to detail, strong analytical abilities, competence in product testing equipment, and aptitude with general quality systems and compliance systems.

This opportunity will be 100% onsite in our Elgin, Illinois corporate headquarters location.

Core Responsibilities

• Analysis: Develop, execute, and document inspection plans to identify defects and quality issues.
• Process Improvement: Review, document, and update quality assurance procedures, standards, and technical documentation

• Compliance & Auditing: Perform inspections and audits to ensure compliance with industry regulations and company standards.

• Documentation & Reporting: Track defects and quality metrics in databases, reporting findings to product teams and management.
• Collaboration: Work with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to resolve issues and improve product quality.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and spot subtle to complex issues.
• Attention to Detail: Intense focus on ensuring accuracy and catching minor e rrors at all levels of the quality and compliance systems
• Technical Proficiency: Experience with ERP systems, automation testing tools or specialized manufacturing equipment. Aptitude to learn and optimize compliance reporting systems. Intermediate to advanced Excel skills required.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication to document, report, and explain technical issues.
• Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or years of equivalent work experience in Quality Control.

Sure Werx is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Sure Werx are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, Strategic, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Sure Werx will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Applicants must have valid authorization to work in the United States for any employer and must not require, now or in the future, visa sponsorship or visa transfer.