Quality Control Inspector

Overview and Key Facts

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Median Pay

$47,460

Job Growth

0.00%

(Below US Average)

Jobs in 2034

598,100

What Do They Do?

 

Test and verify all microchips are made to spec to work properly in your home's smart technology.

Check to make sure bolts correctly fit and are correctly tightened on an aircraft's emergency exit doors during final inspection.

Examine designer jeans for defects and determine why the defect occurred.

Test the metal parts used in an artificial joint implant to verify hardness and strength.

 

Overview Listen to this section

Imagine having the superpower to ensure that everything around us is top-notch and meets the highest standards. As a Quality Control Inspector, you become a super detective. You inspect and test products like toys, technology and cars. You make sure the products are perfect before they reach the hands of customers. Paying attention to detail and commitment to perfection leads to making sure every item is made exactly as it should be.

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Do You Have the Skills and Characteristics of a Quality Control Inspector?

1. Quality Control Analysis: ? Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
2. Writing: ? Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
3. Critical Thinking: ? Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
4. Judgment and Decision Making: ? Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
5. Active Listening: ? Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

6. Speaking: ? Talking to others to convey information effectively.
7. Reading Comprehension: ? Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
8. Time Management: ? Managing one's own time and the time of others.
9. Monitoring: ? Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
10. Operations Monitoring: ? Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

Core 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.