Quality Assurance Inspector in Gardena

Under general supervision, the QA inspector is responsible to perform the following duties personally or through others to satisfy the customer and drive continuous improvement.

• Participate in cross functional team meetings to identify root cause problems and implement corrective action of quality issues.
• Utilize various measuring inspection tools such as Micrometers, Calipers, Height Gage, etc.

• Develops and maintains work-in-process and finished goods quality audits. Ensures audits reflect most up to date customer issues.
• Recommends improvements to processes, products, and documentation to drive improvement and satisfy the customer.
• Monitors manufacturing process to ensure compliance with established work instructions, process audits, and quality checklists on a regular basis.
• Develops and makes visual displays depicting good and bad parts, e.g. acceptable and unacceptable metal.
• Quarantines and oversees disposition of non-compliant material and devises methods to assess cost and responsibility.
• Works with suppliers to help resolve non-compliant material issues and make recommendations for improvement and provides feedback as necessary.
• Manages documents related to production inspections, calibration and capability as defined in quality plans.
• Provides training to production workers on audits, inspections, and calibrations as required.
  
  - Understands supplier and customer testing and quality plans as required.
• Understands of Engineering Change Orders and Temporary Deviation processes.
• Inspect parts for conformance before shipping, remediate defects when possible and help identify root cause and corrective actions when parts are found to be outside of standard.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this role. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

This job operates in a professional office and warehouse environment out of the plant in Corona, CA.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This is a 50% sedentary role and 50% hands-on work on the floor. The noise level in the work environment may be loud. PPE must be worn in designated areas. No travel is expected for this position.

North Star Company is a leading manufacturer and supplier of high-quality roll forming products for a wide range of industries.