A Day in the Life of
July 29, 2015 10:54 am Leave your thoughts
This is what an average day of a quality assurance technician looks like:
6:00 – Leave Home, get a coffee, and enjoy a quiet Vancouver.
6:25 – Get to work in one piece without being hit by bad drivers and change into work gear.
6:30 – Check last night’s test results, get an update from associates ending shift. Our plant works 12 hour shifts from 7 to 7, so coming in at 630 is a good way of communicating between day and night shifts. This helps associates transition smoothly into their day’s tasks and keep on top of things.
7:30 – Take a morning stroll around the plant to see how everything is running.
8:00 – Production meeting, receive updates on plant conditions and shipping schedules. With the plant undergoing many changes, quality, safety and shipping departments are very closely related. These early morning meetings help to focus everyone’s targets to safely and efficiently produce good quality product.
8:30 – QA department Coffee Break + Crossword
8:45 – Work on current projects, reports, special testing or analysis. Attend other meetings or conference calls. A lot of times, meetings are called to discuss potential projects that could be conducted to justify operational changes and improvements to our process. Meetings involve staff from production, shipping and remanufacturing departments to ensure clear communication and the least disruption to normal non-experimental production.
11:30 – Lunch
12:00 – Carry on with routine tasks: package inspections, calibrating sensors, other tasks. There are many tasks that need to be performed on a weekly or monthly basis to meet quality needs. Most of our equipment is hooked up to a monitoring system that displays on a screen in our lab, so we need to make sure the readings are accurate and reflective of the actual conditions of the plant.
2:15 – Afternoon Production meeting, report on progress and discuss plans for night shift.
3:00 – Go home time. You might think leaving home at 6 is a superhuman feat, but you are actually way more productive once you get used to it – especially when you skip the stressful rush hour traffic!