Quality Inspector

Parker Hannifin; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin is seeking a Quality Inspector at our Houston, TX facility. You will inspect, test, and measure parts and assemblies for defects, verify conformance to specifications, and document results.

Experience with GD&T and CMMs is preferred, along with proficient Excel skills. Responsibilities include reading blueprints, reporting issues, and ensuring products meet quality, reliability, and safety standards in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Two years of related experience.
• Microsoft Excel (Intermediate) proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, test, or measure products to verify conformance to specifications.
• Record inspection data and results; communicate issues to supervisors.
• Operate and troubleshoot measuring equipment, including CMM machinery.
• Interpret blueprints, data, and GD&T requirements to determine inspection procedures.
• Mark items with grade or acceptance status and document deviations.
• Ensure materials and products meet environmental, quality, and safety standards.

Skills

Quality inspection

GD&T

CMM operation

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

CMM

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.
With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.
Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.
Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.
By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.
As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Position Summary

Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.

Job Duties/ Responsibilities

• Discard or reject products, materials, or 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, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.
• Notify supervisors and other personnel of production problems, and assist in identifying and correcting these problems.
• Discuss inspection results with those responsible for products, and recommend necessary corrective actions.
• Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.
• Mark items with details such as grade or acceptance-rejection status.
• Observe and monitor production operations and equipment to ensure conformance to specifications and make or order necessary process or assembly adjustments.
• Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.
• Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results.
• Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.
• Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders and submit discrepancy reports when problems are found.
• Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.
• Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.
• Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.
• Clean, maintain, repair, and calibrate measuring instruments and test equipment such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, and height gauges.
• Stack and arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging and transport products to other work stations as necessary.
• Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.
• Supervise testing or drilling activities.
• Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.
• Position products, components, or parts for testing, or direct other workers to position them.
• Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.
• Set controls, start and monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.
• Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.
• Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators, and prepare reports of inspection or test findings.
• Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights and ingredient quantities, or to determine sorting.
• Administer tests to engineers and operators to assess whether they are qualified to use equipment.
• Disassemble defective parts and components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges and measuring instruments, using hand tools.
• Compute usable amounts of items in shipments and determine prices, based on quantities and grade assessments.
• Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.
• Operate and program the Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) to check standard and ad-hock parts.
• Functional knowledge and usage Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Seal, Gasket and material knowledge including assembly components and characteristics.

Qualifications

Education : High School Diploma or equivalent
Experience : Two years related experience
Computer Skills : Microsoft Excel Intermediate

Additional Comments

The essential functions have been provided as example of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations. (“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)

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