Quality/Manufacturing Technician

Who We Are

Metrix is the preferred supplier of industrial condition monitoring systems to many of the world's leading manufacturers and users of cooling towers, gas turbines, reciprocating compressors, and other rotating and reciprocating machinery.

With headquarters in Houston, Texas, we operate in more than 40 countries via factory-direct sales and service professionals, along with a strategic network of instrumentation partners.

We pioneered the concept of simple, affordable machinery protection with our seismic measurement technology.

Initially focused on geophysical exploration, this technology also found abundant applications for vibration measurements on industrial machines and has been our focus for 50 years.

Your Role

Responsible to assure the effective utilization of equipment and materials with an objective of maximizing production output while maintaining safety, quality and cost standards.

This hands-on position will support ongoing manufacturing with a strong emphasis on implementing and sustaining lean process improvements, ensuring process capability, and process repeatability.

Serves as an internal quality analyst for solving quality issues to ensure consistent high value with the company's product and installation.

Must be available to work Monday-Friday and overtime on Saturdays as required from our NW Houston manufacturing site.


* Develop, evaluate, implement, improve and document manufacturing equipment, tooling and processes.


* Implement and sustain Lean Manufacturing techniques and training on the shop floor.


* Team with planning and design staff concerning product design and tooling to ensure efficient production processes as well as process reliability.


* Evaluate, rework and reject levels for design, process, and training improvement opportunities.


* Implement process and product improvements resulting in a positive impact on production cycle time, product costs and product quality.


* Analyze and plan work force utilization, space requirements, and workflow and design layout of equipment and workspace for optimum efficiency and safety.


* Confer with management, engineering and other team members regarding manufacturing capabilities, production schedules, and other considerations to facilitate production processes.


* Develop and evaluate equipment and processes to produce a high-quality product at a competitive cost for either improvements in current processes or development for new product releases.


* Facilitate the development of corrective action plans to resolve internal quality or delivery issues.


* Conduct production feasibility, Design for Manufacturability, and Design for Quality reviews while generating assembly instructions, in-process inspection, and tooling.


* Provide technical direction, and training for operators performing detailed process steps to ensure that production assemblers, testers, inspectors and support staff have necessary skills, appr...