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Quality Assurance Representative - 1st Shift - Pay Starting at $27.70/hr.

Stryker

Waltham, MAJob$27.7–37.47/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$27.7–37.47/hr
Location
Waltham, MA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Quality Assurance Representative performs incoming, in-process, and final inspections of components, assemblies, electromechanical products, and customer orders. The role reviews product and inspection documentation, interprets engineering drawings, records findings, and works with cross-functional partners to resolve quality issues. It also supports audits, improvement projects, inspection-plan updates, and testing activities, and provides inspection guidance to other inspectors.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Quality Control InspectionGeometric Dimensioning and TolerancingQuality Inspection Certification

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED2 Years Quality Control Inspection ExperienceASQ Certified Quality Inspector or Equivalent

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

What you will do

As a Quality Assurance Representative, you will perform incoming, in-process, and final quality control inspections of components, assemblies, and electromechanical products while ensuring products and documentation meet established specifications, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.

  • Conduct incoming, in-process, and final quality control inspections of components, assemblies, electromechanical products, and completed customer orders using established inspection procedures and specifications.

  • Perform routine, non-routine, and advanced inspections using calibrated gauges, meters, calipers, measurement tools, and other inspection equipment, including close-tolerance measurements.

  • Review inspection and testing documentation, Device History Records, packaging, labeling, product literature, and revision levels for compliance with specifications and Good Documentation Practices.

  • Interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, and schematics to complete accurate inspections and verify product requirements.

  • Document inspection results, identify and report nonconformities or abnormalities, and work with Quality, Operations, Materials, Engineering, suppliers, and other partners to resolve quality issues.

  • Maintain inspection equipment and work areas in accordance with calibration, line clearance, quality, and documentation requirements.

  • Train and provide inspection technique, process, and procedure guidance to other Quality Control Inspectors.

  • Support internal and external audits, quality improvement projects, inspection plan updates, non-standard inspection activities, and testing activities such as Production Part Approval Process and Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility studies.

What you will need

Required

  • High school diploma or GED.

  • 2 years of quality control inspection or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred

  • Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) training.

  • American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Inspector certification or equivalent quality inspection certification or experience.

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$27.70 - $37.47 USD Hourly

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,957 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$27.7–37.47/hr
  • Massachusetts median$27–32/hr29 hourly ranges
  • US median$26–31/hr844 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $32.59/hr, is 10% above the Massachusetts median midpoint ($30/hr) — in the middle half of Quality Assurance hourly ranges in Massachusetts.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 151 open Quality Assurance jobs in Massachusetts and 4,957 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Massachusetts
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,826 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,624 of the 4,957 open Quality Assurance jobs (53%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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