Location: Brisbane, QLD
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Technology / Manufacturing
Work Pattern: 9-day fortnight – every second Friday off
Emesent is an Australian technology company developing autonomous LiDAR-based drone mapping and data analytics solutions. Our technology helps customers capture high-quality 3D data in challenging, GPS-denied environments across mining, infrastructure, surveying and emergency response.
We’re looking for a Quality Control Coordinator to join our Quality & Test team in Brisbane.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll play an important part in ensuring our products, components and customer orders meet Emesent’s high quality standards before they reach the customer.
What you'll doYou’ll work across the full quality lifecycle, including:
- Inspect incoming components and materials against drawings, specifications and engineering requirements.
- Perform in-process quality inspections during assembly and sub-assembly builds.
- Complete final QC inspections on new-build Hovermap payloads, RMA products and accessories.
- Verify product functionality, workmanship, cosmetic condition and completeness.
- Perform packing and shipping verification against customer orders and system records.
- Conduct First Article Inspections (FAIs) for new or changed suppliers.
- Raise and manage Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), particularly relating to supplied parts.
- Support Engineering Change Notifications (ECNs) and New Product Introduction (NPI) activities.
- Maintain calibration and preventive maintenance records for QC and production equipment.
- Document rework activities and maintain accurate quality records.
- Support ISO 9001 and Quality Management System activities, audits and corrective actions.
- Work closely with Production, Engineering, Supply Chain and Logistics to resolve quality issues and keep products moving.
You’ll have 3+ years’ experience in quality control, inspection or QC coordination, ideally within manufacturing, electronics or technology production.
You’ll also bring:
- Experience with incoming, in-process and outgoing quality inspection.
- Experience with shipping/packing verification.
- Competence using inspection equipment such as callipers, micrometers and multimeters.
- Understanding of AQL sampling concepts.
- Working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015.
- Experience with NCRs and corrective action processes.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to follow documented procedures.
- Good communication skills and confidence working across technical and operational teams.
- Experience using digital workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence or SharePoint.
- A friendly, practical and proactive approach with a genuine willingness to learn.
- Cert IV or Diploma in Quality Management, Engineering or a related discipline.
- ISO 9001 or Lead Auditor certification.
- Electronics or electro-mechanical assembly inspection experience.
- IPC workmanship standards.
- FAI, ECN or NPI processes.
- ERP/inventory systems such as Fishbowl, FastFields or similar.
- Internal or external quality audit experience.
At Emesent, you’ll be working on technology that is changing how industries capture and understand the physical world.
You’ll join a passionate and collaborative team building world-leading autonomous robotics and LiDAR technology, with genuine opportunities to learn and grow.
Our benefits include:
- 9-day fortnight – every second Friday off
- Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP)
- Learning and development opportunities, including LinkedIn Learning
- Employee Assistance Program
- One additional day of leave each year for your work anniversary
- Novated lease options
- Collaborative and innovative work environment
If you’re a quality professional who enjoys being hands-on, solving problems and working closely with technical teams, we’d love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- 3+ years in a QC, inspection, or QC coordination role in manufacturing, electronics, or technology production
- Experience with incoming goods inspection, in-process quality inspection, outgoing finished goods inspection, and shipping/packing verification
- Competent with inspection tools (callipers, micrometers, multimeters) and AQL sampling concepts
- Working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015
- Experience with non-conformance reporting and corrective action processes
- Strong attention to detail and ability to follow documented procedures
- Effective communicator who can coordinate across production, engineering, and supply chain teams
- Comfortable with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar digital workflow tools
- Friendly can-do attitude with a willingness to learn and grow
- Cert IV or Diploma in Quality Management, Engineering, or related discipline
- ISO9001 or Lead Auditor certified
- Experience with electro-mechanical or electronics assembly inspection, or IPC workmanship standards
- Familiarity with FAI, ECN/NPI processes, and ERP/inventory systems (e.g., Fishbowl, FastFields)
- Experience supporting internal or external quality audits
What We Do
Emesent is a world-leader in drone autonomy, LiDAR mapping, and data analytics. Our vision is to autonomously map the inaccessible. Founded in 2018, with deep connections to Australia's globally recognized CSIRO, we have been striving towards our vision and rapidly grown into a mid-sized global organization. Emesent has built a reputation for delivering high-quality data capture in the mining, infrastructure, survey, and mapping industries. Our team of 40 roboticists, engineers, and business development experts work side-by-side to deliver revolutionary efficiency, safety, and operational insights to our customers. Our flagship product, Hovermap, is a smart mobile scanning unit that combines advanced collision avoidance and autonomous flight technologies to map hazardous and GPS-denied environments. Its award-winning technology utilizes innovative hardware, advanced algorithms, and machine learning to automate collection and analysis of the physical world. Equally capable above ground or underground, indoors or out, Hovermap is a complete mobile LiDAR mapping solution. Hovermap is uniquely versatile, it can be backpack-, drone-, or vehicle-mounted to map challenging, inaccessible areas enabling our customers to gain insights that were not possible before. With multiple applications across several industries and a rapidly growing customer base, Hovermap and our other solutions are being used commercially for a variety of applications by enterprise customers around the world.
