Quality Inspector duties and responsibilities

Quality Inspectors are responsible for inspecting and testing products and overseeing operations for a company to ensure they meet production standards, and they can work in any industry that involves production and assembly, such as glassware, textile, motor vehicles and food. Here are some of the typical duties a Quality Inspector may have:

• Establishing quality standards for products a company produces
• Reading blueprints and specifications to ensure that operations meet production standards
• Recommending any necessary adjustments and changes to production processes
• Inspecting and testing the materials and equipment produced by a company
• Using gadgets such as micrometer screw gauges to measure products
• Removing products that don’t meet production standards and recommending strategies to improve product quality
• Accepting or rejecting finished products and discussing inspection results with the production team
• Performing inspections at random to assess product quality.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)