Quality Inspector

Description

Summary:

Under the supervision of the Quality Manager, the Quality Inspector performs complex geometric dimensional inspections on received product, first article, in-process, and finished products, ensuring compliance to specifications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Approve incoming materials/parts by confirming specifications; conduct visual and measurement tests.
• Approve in-process production by confirming specifications; conducting visual and cmm inspection to existing programs; communicating required adjustments to production.
• Approve finished products by confirming specifications; conducting visual and measurement tests; returning products for re-work; confirming re-work.
• Document inspection results by completing reports and logs; inputting data into quality database, creating non-conforming material reports.
• Perform first article inspections and submits results to manufacturing.
• Accomplish quality and organization mission by completing related results as needed. Take precision measurements and perform complex precision set-ups.
• Dimensional inspection using calipers, micrometers, bore gauges etc.
• Generating inspection plans, first article inspection reports and recording measurements.
• Interpret certifications, detailed blueprints, complex engineering drawings, work orders, engineering specifications, and routing sheets to determine production standards and tolerance limits.
• Assist in addressing and resolving production problems causing deviations from existing standards.
• Comply with all quality and safety regulations and procedures (ISO 9000 Compliant).
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Ability to perform manual layout inspection using height gages and hand tools.
• Ability to operate manual and/or DCC CMM (PC-DMIS or Calypso). Programming experience is a plus.
• Ability to operate optical comparator and related peripherals.
• Understand the care and use of pin gages, thread gages and gage blocks.
• Understand complex dimensioning systems and can interpret Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerances (‘GD&T‘) symbols.
• Determine pass/fail on visual criteria under magnification and understands and can operate microscope.
• Communicate with manager noted deviations from tolerances and quality.
• Ability to make decisions, communicate effectively and work with others.
• Ability to be a team player, a self-starter, a problem solver and adaptable.
• Basic troubleshooting skills a plus.
• Basic computer and math skills and good reading comprehension ability.
• Ability to read and interpret complex documents such as blueprints, routings, work orders, engineering specifications, and safety regulations.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Education and/or Experience:

• High School diploma or GED or at least5 years related experience or a combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects, tools, or controls.
• Ability to frequently walk, talk, or hear.
• Ability to occasionally sit, stoop, kneel or crouch and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that is involved in this position.