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Quality Control Inspector

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9 months ago
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Are you a Quality Control Inspector looking for an exciting new opportunity in the Stonehouse area?

Does the idea of working with a market leading company who offer excellent progression opportunities interest you?

Then reach out! Kingston Barnes is recruiting a Quality Control Inspector for one of our clients in the Stonehouse area.

The Company:

The Company specialise in the design and manufacture of applications for the oil & gas industry

The Role:

The successful candidate will be responsible for performing various inspection tasks to ensure conformance to company standards, specifications, and drawings. As well as this, raising non-conformance reports where items or events do not conform to standards, specifications / drawings.

Duties & responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to, performing:

  • 1st off inspections

  • Dimensional Inspection Record Sheets

  • Dye Penetrant Inspection

  • PMI, Ferritescope & Copper Sulphate Reports

  • Works Traveller Booking

  • Goods Reject Notes

  • Non-conformance reports

  • Work instructions/procedures

  • Raw materials certification

  • Calibration of inspection equipment

    About you:

  • Fully experienced with all inspection/measuring equipment such as micrometres, verniers, thread gauges, shadow graphs and Hardness testing equipment

  • Fully experienced in reading and understanding Engineering drawings.

  • Extensive experience of using a Co-ordinate Measuring Machine (CMM), both manual & CNC

  • Conversant with materials certification.

  • Experience working within a similar industry, such as aerospace, renewables, oil & gas etc i.e. not food / FMCG

    Package:

  • £31,100

  • Double days – half day on Fridays

  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

  • Competitive pension contribution

  • Sick pay scheme

    If you are interested, please call Ben Critchley on (phone number removed) or apply online

    Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this position

    *Sponsorship is not available

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