Quality Inspector

Artemis Clarke Ltd; Hythe; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

PSM Recruitment is seeking a Quality Inspector to ensure components meet customer specifications and quality standards. You will move across the company’s three quality areas to gain broad QC knowledge and ensure products are inspected at key stages.

You will verify dimensions, record non-conformances, and contribute to 8D investigations, while assisting with calibration and maintaining a safe, clean working area.

Qualifications

• Ability to read engineering drawings
• Proficient with precision measuring instruments
• Calibration of equipment and gauges
• Strong maths understanding
• Attention to detail
• Good organisational and communication skills
• Strong problem solving ability

Responsibilities

• Ensure components produced meet highest quality and customer specifications
• Verify dimensions and inspect goods inwards and outgoing items
• Record non-conforming products and identify causes
• Create plans to improve product quality and participate in 8D investigations
• Assist with calibration of company equipment
• Maintain health and safety and cleanliness in the area
• Support customers and visitors as required

Job description

Quality Inspector

PSM Recruitment is looking for a Quality Inspector. The Quality Inspector is responsible for ensuring that components produced are of the best quality and correct to customer specifications. You must be prepared to move around the company's three quality areas to build up an all-round knowledge of QC procedures for this position.

The Quality Department is focused on ensuring that all work produced by the different sections in the company meets the agreed company quality standards and fully complies with the clients' drawings and other special instructions provided with the order. The aim of the Quality Department is to ensure that all customers receive high-quality product and that we meet delivery performance targets.

Key responsibilities

• To ensure that components produced are of the best quality
• To ensure that components produced are correct to customer specifications
• To verify dimensions
• Check first offs that the setter or operator require second checking
• To carry out goods inwards inspection of material and components received from suppliers
• Inspect components before they are sent out to customer
• Record non-conforming products
• Create plans to improve product quality
• Identify causes for non conformance and then work to improve the product quality and discuss recommended actions at any 8D investigation meetings
• Assist with the calibration of company equipment as required
• To ensure that you are working to the correct methods
• To be responsible for the control of Health & Safety and cleanliness in the area
• Attend daily tier meetings
• Assist with customers/visitors if required
• If required visit customers to assist with sorting non-conforming product

Key skills & qualifications

• The ability to read engineering drawings
• The ability to use a range of specialist measuring equipment, i.e. Vernier Caliper, Micrometer, Height Gauge, Slip Gauges, X-Ray, Clock & Stand, Depth Micrometer and RA Tester
• Calibration of equipment and gauges
• A good understanding of maths
• Attention to detail
• Good organisational and communication skills
• Problem solving ability

Hours of work

39 hours per week (Monday - Thursday 08:00 - 17:00, Fridays 08:00 - 13:00).