Product Quality Inspector

Lithside (Thia) Thonedara

Brooklyn Park, Minnesota 55445 612-***-**** *******@*****.***

Profile

I have 20 years of experience as a Quality Inspector professional. Responsible for inspecting and testing products, overseeing operations, and ensuring all manufactured products meet all requirements using tools and guidelines to ensure consumer satisfaction, establishing product quality standards, reading blueprints and specifications to ensure that operations meet production standards, and recommending necessary adjustments and changes to production processes. Remove products that don’t meet production standards, suggest strategies to improve product quality, accept or reject finished products, discuss inspection results with the production team, and perform inspections at random to assess product quality.

Skills & Abilities

Exceptional communication and strong organizational skills

Strong attention to detail, prioritization strategy, and excellent time management.

Friendly and Energetic personality with a business development focus.

Self-motivated and perform well under pressure.

Ability to work collaboratively and effectively as a team member and independently with an optimistic attitude.

Experience

Final Quality – Nextern, White Bear Lake, MN

May 2020 – December 2023

Responsible for supporting day-to-day operations and ensuring that our products meet high safety, functionality, and consumer satisfaction standards.

Review travelers' Documents for shipping out final products

Create CofCs for multiple products.

Great Agile and Epicor experience

Sterile prep documents for shipping and receiving.

Collect data from all documents from Sterile to release the product and send them to the customer.

Helped production when they needed support to meet deadlines.

Approved release for labels inspection for production to be used.

Release final products and hands-on inspection.

Scan all travelers to Agile to upload and save.

Daily communication with the customer.

Quality Technician – Minnetronix, St. Paul, MN

April 2018 – October 2020

Quality Technician for the medical device field, supporting the production team for complex electronic and software-based medical devices. Responsible for production quality system processes, corporate quality initiatives, improvement activities, and customer quality relationships for assigned manufacturing lines.

Finalized all department documents before shipping.

Worked with Laserfiche, Epicor, and ERP systems.

Used Epicor to transfer finished products to the stockpile.

Received incoming material and reviewed purchase orders.

Created CofC for clients.

Complied data and created reports for customers.

Inspected all medical devices before shipment and passed per print and SOPs.

Worked with SPC systems.

Quality Specialist / Technician – Integer, Minneapolis, MN

May 2003 – February 2017

Quality Specialist / Technician for one of the most significant medical device outsources. Responsible for all quality requirements, including company policies, operating procedures, and other regulatory requirements, with knowledge of gage R&R.

Serve as the primary contact with engineers developing new products.

Closely monitored SIP, SOP, and prints

Tested products in-house and shipped for trial periods.

Worked with SPC/ASI data, created new templates, updated procedures, and printed as needed.

Work on new SOP and experience with ECO

Trained production staff on new products.

Communicated all product rejects to engineers.

Assisted the senior engineer with a daily work task.

Troubleshoot issues within the department.

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