QA​/QC Inspector III

The QA/QC Inspector III is the technical lead for quality on an assigned project or fabrication shop. The position directs the inspection work of the QA/QC inspectors assigned to it, sets clear expectations for how inspection is performed and recorded, and coaches inspectors toward consistent practice.

The position owns execution of the project-specific Quality Control Plan ensuring the first-in inspection process reduces risk and cost from fabrication and installation errors, driving resolution of quality issues with the project team, and monitoring issues so that systemic problems are addressed rather than repeated. It works proactively with the field, shop, and/or project management team and provides the avenue for input into quality requirement changes.

QA/QC Inspector III is the senior inspection level and the first level that supervises other inspectors; formal personnel authority begins at QA/QC Area Supervisor.

Assigned alone, it is the technical authority for the inspection scope of a project or fabrication shop: it sets the inspection plan, holds the hold points, and releases the turnover package.

Where other inspectors are assigned, it directs their technical work, and where a project requires more than one Inspector III, one of them may be assigned as QA/QC Inspector
- Lead. Hiring, performance management, discipline and pay decisions sit with the QA/QC Area Supervisor and above.

QA/QC supports fabrication, installation and project management. Those groups are this position's customers inside ACCO, and what they build is what reaches the contractual customer. The position works as part of the project team - available, responsive, and practical about how the work gets built - not as an outside check on it.

Findings are raised to be resolved. Getting to the work early, before it is covered, is part of the job. Field and shop personnel take day-to-day direction from local project leadership (Project Management, Foreperson, General Foreperson, or Superintendent) on a dotted-line basis: where to be, when, and how the day is coordinated, with site adherence to appropriate conduct and safety in mind.

Inspection decisions, acceptance and rejection, and the quality record run through the QA/QC line to the QA/QC Area Supervisor and the QA/QC Regional Manager. Where the two pull against each other the QA/QC line governs the quality decision, and the conflict is raised the same day rather than settled on site.

Set expectations for inspection practice, documentation standards, and professional interaction with field crews and their Forepersons, and hold assigned inspectors to them.

Assign inspection work daily among the inspectors on the project or shop based on scope, risk, and schedule.

Coach and develop assigned inspectors; onboard new inspectors to project quality expectations; identify training and certification needs and raise them to the QA/QC Area Supervisor.

Verify that assigned inspectors hold current certification, site badging, and required training before they perform work.

Ensure effective collaboration with inspection staff with a dotted line to local project/shop leadership.

Own execution of the project-specific Quality Control Plan and Inspection and Test Plan and confirm every commitment in them is met.

Drive the first-in inspection process on new crews, processes, and material, so errors are caught on the first article rather than after the run.

Maintain the hold and witness point schedule and confirm every point is attended and recorded.

Verify that approved welding procedure specifications are available where the…