Quality Control Inspectors

Quality Control Inspectors typically perform the following tasks: • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications. • Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status. • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers. • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems. • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications. • Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs. • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results. • Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels. • Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances. • Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required. • Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments. • Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded. • Position products, components, or parts for testing. • Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces. • Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models. • Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging. • Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary. • Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards. • Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results. • Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.