Receiving Inspection Supervisor

About Us:

Panelmatic, Inc. was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, OH to serve manufacturing industries with the design and build of custom electrical, instrument, and pneumatic control panels. Our business has sufficiently grown over the years to support expansion for our clients. We have produced control packages for many of America's top corporations in the chemical, environmental, food, pulp and paper, rubber, petroleum, pharmaceutical, glass, metals, and utilities industries.

We also deliver equipment for use worldwide. Our rigorous methodology assures compliance with domestic and international standards. We can meet the needs of our diverse clientele from start to finish through sales, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery.

Since 1957 we have been known for our high-quality, custom-built control packages, our comprehensive service, and our technological and manufacturing expertise. This expertise assures you of our ability to handle the largest and most complex packages quickly and efficiently.

Job Summary:

The Receiving Inspection Supervisor is responsible for overseeing all incoming material and component inspections to ensure products meet engineering drawings, purchase order requirements, customer specifications, and applicable quality standards before being released to production.

This position supervises receiving inspectors, coordinates inspection priorities with Warehouse, Purchasing, Production, Engineering, and Quality, and ensures nonconforming materials are identified, documented, segregated, and dispositioned through the established quality process.

The supervisor is accountable for maintaining material traceability, preventing defective or incorrect components from entering production, and providing accurate visibility into supplier quality performance and incoming material status.

Job Duties:

• Supervise daily receiving inspection activities and assign inspection priorities based on production schedules, project requirements, and material criticality.
• Ensure incoming materials are inspected against approved drawings, bills of material (BOMs), purchase orders, packing lists, specifications, and applicable inspection criteria.
• Verify part numbers, quantities, dimensions, materials, finishes, colors, labels, nameplates, hardware, and required certifications.
• Oversee inspections of electrical components, enclosures, doors, panels, structural components, fabricated parts, painted components, and other PEC building materials.
• Establish inspection sampling requirements and determine when 100% inspection is necessary based on customer requirements, supplier performance, risk, or quality history.
• Ensure materials are properly identified and released only after required inspections are completed and documented.
• Maintain visibility of received, pending inspection, accepted, rejected, and on-hold materials.
• Ensure nonconforming materials are identified, tagged, documented, and physically segregated to prevent unauthorized use.
• Initiate or coordinate Nonconformance Reports (NCRs) for damaged, missing, incorrect, out-of-tolerance, or specification-deficient materials.
• Coordinate with Quality Management, Engineering, Purchasing, suppliers, and Production to establish appropriate dispositions, including rework, repair, return to supplier, or approved use-as-is.
• Verify that required corrective actions and reinspection activities are completed before rejected materials are released.
• Enforce material hold and release procedures and prevent production personnel from taking uninspected or rejected materials without proper authorization.
• Escalate recurring defects, critical nonconformances, and supplier performance concerns to Quality Management.
• Direct, train, and evaluate receiving inspectors to ensure…