Precision Quality Inspector - Manufacturing

McWane, Inc.; Calera (AL); On-site; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9 paid holidays + 2 floating holidays

3 weeks PTO

Weekly pay

401k plan

Health insurance plans

Education Assistance

Wellness Program

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

McWane Plant & Industrial is seeking a detail-oriented Quality Inspector to join our team in Alabama. You will inspect machined, fabricated, and assembled parts for defects using precision measurement tools, interpret blueprints, and document results.

Experience with QT9 and strong communication skills are required. The role emphasizes safety, adherence to specifications, and collaboration with engineering and operations to ensure products meet quality standards.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 1-3 years in a hands-on quality role
• Proficient with Microsoft Office
• Experience as a QC Inspector in a manufacturing environment
• Experience using Quality Management systems, particularly QT9
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Must embrace safe and environmentally responsible workplace practices
• Ability to work and communicate effectively in a collaborative environment
• Perform all responsibilities satisfactorily

Responsibilities

• Ensuring personal safety and the safety of your team members.
• Assists supervisors and managers in maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.
• Wear appropriate PPE, including fall protection, respiratory protection, hearing protection, foot, hand, head, and eye protection.
• Responsible for the cleanliness of the assigned work area and maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
• Discard or reject products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications.
• Analyze and interpret blueprints, data, manuals, and other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment and certification methods, formulas, and measuring instruments required.
• Inspect incoming materials to ensure they meet quality specifications
• Notify supervisors and other personnel of production problems, and assist in identifying and correcting these problems.
• Maintain inspection reports and discuss inspection results with those responsible for products, and recommend necessary corrective actions.
• Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, and quantities inspected.
• Generate and document non-conformances in the QT9 system, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
• Mark items with details such as acceptance or rejection status.
• Observe and monitor production operations and equipment to ensure conformance to specifications and make or order necessary process or assembly adjustments.
• Must be highly proficient with measuring dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, height gages, and other high precsion measurement devices.
• Analyze test data and make computations as necessary to determine test results.
• Ability to write routine memos and correspondence.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
• The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus and determine and distinguish color.

Skills

Quality inspection

Blueprint reading

Measuring instruments

Communication skills

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

1-3 years hands-on quality role

Tools

QT9

Job description

McWane Plant & Industrial is seeking a detail-oriented Quality Inspector to join our team in Alabama. You will inspect machined, fabricated, and assembled parts for defects using precision measurement tools, interpret blueprints, and document results.

Experience with QT9 and strong communication skills are required. The role emphasizes safety, adherence to specifications, and collaboration with engineering and operations to ensure products meet quality standards.