Quality Inspector in Wales

Job Location: Tonypandy

Job Duration: Contract – 6 months

Working Hours: 8.30am to 5pm Monday to Friday with a 30-minute lunch break, so a 40-hour working week.

Pay: £13.50 per hour (PAYE)

Scope

To oversee inspection and testing activities at client Survival, across goods-in, in-process, and finished inflatable rescue equipment, ensuring products meet defined specifications, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations. The role is hands-on inspection, team leadership, and quality escalation support, ensuring compliance with the Quality Management System and driving continuous improvement.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Inspect bought in material and components to the latest specifications, visual quality standards and purchase order.
• Liaise with suppliers to ensure correct documentation is received.
• Receive items into stock through Lakeview.
• Inspect and test sub-assemblies and finished products.
• Ensure inspection is carried out in accordance with drawings, SOP’s, and quality standards.
• Perform functional and pressure testing of inflatable products.
• Verify product conformity using appropriate measurement and test equipment.
• Raise RMA’s for non-conforming supplied product.
• Close RMA’s by reviewing preventive action from the supplier to drawings.
• Complete works orders and inspection logs.

Non-Conformance Management

• Lead initial containment actions and product segregation.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective actions of non-conformities raised.
• Verify effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions before closure.
• Act as first point of escalation for inspection issues.

Team Leadership

• Supervise and support Quality Inspectors.
• Allocate daily inspection workload and priorities.
• Provide training, coaching, and competency development.
• Conduct basic performance monitoring (work quality, adherence to procedures).

Documentation & Records

• Ensure accurate completion of inspection records, test reports, works orders and quality logs.
• Maintain traceability and shelf-life records where applicable.
• Support updates to inspection procedures, checklists, and test methods.

Quality System Compliance

• Operate in accordance with the ISO 9001 Quality Management System.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements applicable to rescue/life-saving equipment.
• Promote a “right-first-time” culture on the shop floor.

Experience

• Experience working within an ISO 9001 Quality Management System is essential.
• Knowledge of root cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Experience of inspecting bought in items to PO’s and drawings.
• Be able to demonstrate competence in reading and interpreting engineering drawings.
• Experience using manual measuring equipment - shadowgraphs, Verniers, Micrometres, thread gauge.
• Experience testing air fed products, reading manometers, flow meters and pressure gauges.
• Computer literate - experience using Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.