Quality Control Inspector

Stonehouse

1 year ago

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Quality Control Inspector

£31,100

Double Days (half day Fridays)

Stonehouse

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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