Quality Control Inspector in Basildon

Due to increased workload, we require a skilled and knowledgeable Quality Inspector to join our Quality Control team on a contract basis, initially for approximately 3 months.

The job will involve:

• Conducting thorough inspections and testing of products, materials, or components to verify that they meet quality standards, specifications, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintaining detailed records of inspection and testing results, including measurements, observations, and any defects or non-conformities found.
• Ensuring that products or processes adhere to established quality control standards and procedures, including compliance with industry regulations and safety standards.
• Identifying and documenting any defects, deviations, or non-conformities in products, materials, or processes and communicating this information to relevant personnel for corrective action.
• Selecting random samples for inspection from production batches, shipments, or inventory to evaluate quality.
• Conducting and documenting quality inspections of first article, in process, and finished goods to ensure quality conforms to specified requirements, using measurement devices such as callipers, micrometers, shadow graph, digital height gauge, and CMMs.
• Reporting all unusual conditions or results, unsafe conditions, broken or out of calibration equipment, and procedures not in effect to the Team Leader.
• Collaborating with production and engineering teams to identify opportunities for process improvements that enhance product quality and efficiency.
• Performing visual and mechanical inspection functions against customer drawings with a good understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Reviewing and interpreting customer requirements.
• Inspecting raw materials to ensure consistency and integrity.
• Assisting in the implementation of 5S and other Lean techniques for developing operational excellence.
• Supporting HSE projects with a goal to certification to ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
• Complying with the company’s Health & Safety rules and regulations and helping ensure compliance by all who enter or work at the company’s premises.

The key skills we require are:

• Extensive knowledge of Quality Control techniques.
• Understanding complicated engineering drawings, including geometric dimensioning and tolerances.
• Ability to confidently use and operate the company’s measurement equipment, including micrometers, callipers, shadow graph, digital height gauge, and CMMs.
• Willingness to undertake or collaborate with defect root cause analysis and suggest appropriate mitigation and preventative measures.
• Knowledge of manufacturing and production processes.
• The ability to perform a multi-task job and adjust priorities as instructed by the Team Leader.
• Possessing time management skills and the ability to take the initiative to meet deadlines while prioritising workload with minimal supervision.
• A pro-active approach to maintaining the Health & Safety of all employees.

Ideal experience will include:

• Working within a QMS and a working knowledge of AS9100 requirements.
• Knowledge of inspection and measurement techniques.
• Ability to use mechanical measuring equipment, with CMM experience desirable.
• Understanding of Geometric Tolerancing.
• Ability to conduct FAIRs to AS9102.
• Experience of using structured problem-solving techniques desirable.
• Experience of internal auditing to ISO9001 or AS9100 desirable, but not essential.
• Experience with assisting with PPAPs, APQPs, or PFMEAs.
• Understanding of SPC/SQC desirable, but not essential.
• Not essential, but beneficial, would be a basic knowledge of the ISO45001 (H&S) and ISO14001 (Environmental) Standards.