Inspectors

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required.
• Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.
• Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.
• Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.
• Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.
• Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.
• Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.
• Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.

Qualifications

• Manufacturing experience a plus.
• Ability to stand 2/3 of day or more.
• Use hands to finger, handle or touch 2/3 of day or more.
• Walk and talk or hear 1/3 to 2/3 of the day.
• Reach above shoulder, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl up to 1/3 of the day.
• Lift up to 40 lbs. continuously and repetitively.
• Close, color and ability to adjust focus.
• Lifting from ground level to waist level.