Quality Assurance Inspector I

Siemens; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens is seeking an Inspector I to join our team in California. You will perform electro-mechanical inspections through final assembly against contract specifications, ensuring quality standards are met.

You will review blueprints, specs, and drawings, interpret test data, and interface with Assembly, Quality Management, Engineering, and customers. The role requires a minimum one year in quality functions and basic computer skills.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Understanding of inspection methods and equipment, the ability to perform complex shop mathematics.
• Ability to interpret and use blueprints, specs, drawings, electrical schematics, and inspection standards.
• Requires a minimum of one-year experience interfacing with quality functions.
• Requires medium-level computer abilities.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex electro-mechanical inspections to meet contract specs.
• Follow inspection guidelines to conduct non-routine visual, dimensional, test inspections.
• Interface with Assembly, Quality Management, Engineering, and customers.
• Conduct complex inspection procedures requiring special setups of new or unique equipment and interpretation of test data.
• May conduct first article inspection of parts and assemblies.
• Identify and handle discrepant material, understanding part flow requirements and supporting actions.
• Solve problems involving several variables in standardized situations.

Skills

Inspection methods

Blueprints

Engineering drawings

Electrical schematics

Quality interface

Education

High School diploma

Job description

Pioneering in America, from the first mile to the last. This is what drives us. We’re proud to be Great Place to Work certified—a reflection of our commitment to creating an environment where innovation thrives, and every voice matters.

Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html

Position Overview:

As an Inspector I, you will work alongside other Siemens and Customer Resident Inspectors to ensure that vehicles meet contract configuration requirements and comply with all applicable technical specifications. Your role is critical in maintaining quality standards and supporting successful project delivery and specification.

What your day may look like:

• Performs wide variety of complex and difficult electro-mechanical inspections in the production/assembly/source process through final assembly inspection to meet contract specification and workmanship standards.
• Follows general inspection guidelines and contract specifications to conduct critical non-routine visual, dimensional, test and functional inspections on a wide variety of components, assemblies, equipment, systems, supplies and materials.
• Regularly interfaces with Assembly, Quality Management, Engineering, Customers Ris
• Performs complex and critical inspection procedures requiring special set-ups of new or unique equipment and interpretation of test data from a variety of sources.
• May conduct first article inspection of parts and assemblies.
• Identification and handling of discrepant material, understanding part flow requirements and supporting associated actions.
• Ability to deal with problems in solving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

This posting outlines the primary responsibilities of the role, but is not all-inclusive; additional duties may be assigned in alignment with business needs.

What you will need to thrive in this role:

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Understanding of inspection methods and equipment, the ability to perform complex shop mathematics.
• Ability to interpret and use blueprints, specs, engineering drawings, electrical schematics, materials lists and inspection standards.
• Requires a minimum of one-year experience of interfacing with quality functions.
• Requires medium-level computer abilities.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts; in high, precarious places; and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• Work under minimum supervision.
• Available to work overtime.

Additional Information:

The physical demands described here are representative of those necessary to successfully perform the essential job duties:

• Frequently walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequently required to climb stairs, steps, and ladders.
• Frequently required to work on elevated platforms.
• Perform work overhead.
• Occasionally lift and move at most 40 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Candidates should be willing to work in non-climate-controlled environments and inclement weather if required or if applicable.

Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without needing current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.

Purpose is the reason a company exists. It's not about making money or selling products - it's the deeper "why" behind everything we do. It answers the question: What problem are we solving? What positive change are we creating?

For Siemens, our purpose has been clear for over 175 years: We create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. The world needs technologies that work. Technologies that matter. Technologies that solve today's challenges and help shape a better tomorrow. And that's exactly what we build. By bringing together the real world (factories, buildings, power grids, trains) with the digital world (software, data, AI, digital twins), we help our customers become more competitive, resilient, and sustainable.

Our technology is everywhere - in trains and transportation, we help move people faster, safer, and more sustainably.

$23.01 10% shift differential for second shift and 20% shift differential for 3rd shift