Description
Calibrate, test, adjust, and maintain measurement and test equipment, gages, and reference standards used in production and labs; troubleshoot measurement issues, perform minor repairs, and document traceable results to meet quality and regulatory requirements.
- • Perform scheduled calibrations and preventive maintenance on measurement and test equipment (M&TE) to ensure accuracy and reliability.
- • Review work orders and consult users to understand measurement issues, usage conditions, and potential misuse.
- • Set up and verify measurement systems and reference standards, controlling environmental conditions as required.
- • Operate gages and test instruments to evaluate performance and demonstrate proper measurement techniques.
- • Diagnose out-of-tolerance instruments using certified standards, test software, and metrology principles.
- • Adjust, repair, or replace components to restore instruments to specification, or recommend disposition.
- • Calibrate electrical, mechanical, dimensional, pressure, and temperature instruments to prescribed specifications and uncertainties.
- • Advise stakeholders on measurement capability, calibration intervals, and process improvements.
- • Inspect instruments, leads, probes, and fixtures for damage, wear, contamination, or improper setup affecting results.
- • Review procedures, datasheets, drawings, and manuals to determine calibration methods and tolerances.
- • Maintain complete calibration records, certificates, as-found/as-left data, and traceability to national or international standards.
- • Coordinate with production, quality, and engineering to schedule calibrations and minimize downtime.
- • Maintain inventory of standards, adapters, accessories, and replacement parts for calibration activities.
- • Collaborate with engineers to design or refine test setups and resolve measurement system issues.
- • Route unserviceable or specialized items to OEMs or accredited external labs when in-house capability is unavailable.
- • Return calibrated equipment to service, applying labels and status tags with due dates across shop and field environments.
- • Evaluate suitability of standard gages or specify new M&TE and fixtures to meet measurement requirements.
- • Use calibration management software to schedule, document, analyze results, and generate certificates; develop automated procedures when applicable.
- • Approve and sign calibration certificates, out-of-tolerance notifications, and corrective action records per the quality system.
- • Develop and improve calibration procedures, uncertainty budgets, and MSA/Gage R&R practices in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 or company standards.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
