Quality Inspector

Job Summary/Overview

Responsible for identification, development, implementation and maintenance of various production process quality procedures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Inspect and measure castings and machined parts to ensure conformity to prints and specifications. 
• Calibrate and maintain gages and equipment. 
• Compile inspection reports as required. 
• Work with groups as required to improve quality and continuous improvement. 
• Perform product containments. 
• Support other departments as needed.

Knowledge, Skills, Competencies, and Abilities

• Ability to read and interpret engineering blueprint specifications.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. 
• Ability to write simple correspondence. 
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. 
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, geometry and trigonometry, common fractions, and decimals. 
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs Read blueprints.
• Ability to program & operate CMM. 
• Basic skills, Microsoft excel, Microsoft word.
• Must have knowledge of and ability to use measuring equipment such as calipers, micrometers, height gage, thread gages, bore gages, optical compactor, CMM machines & etc. 
• Must be willing to expand (BOK) Body of Knowledge in profession.
• Knowledge of CMBIS/PLUS and (ASQ) American Society of Quality Qualification/Plus
• Knowledge of PPAP

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) with 1 + year related experience and/or training.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 40 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.