Precision Quality Inspection Specialist

Location: Saint Joseph, MI

Reports To: Quality Manager or Designee

A day in this role

When your shift starts, you review the day’s priorities and open quality alerts. You scan through engineering drawings, confirm critical dimensions, and head to the floor. At the machining cell, you conduct in-process inspections at the exact stages specified, catching common and known issues early. You move to receiving to complete targeted inspections on supplied components with known concerns, then document any nonconformances, open NCRs, and route them to Purchasing for debit memos—adding clear defect notes and photos so suppliers can respond quickly.

Midday, the Quality Manager pulls you into an urgent issue; together, you launch swift containment on nonconforming parts. You recommend a tweak to a work instruction and an update to a quality checklist to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of quality. Between stations, you keep the Non-Conforming Material area orderly and current, assist with daily manufacturing and supplier scrap review and disposition, and coordinate with an external third-party calibration provider as needed.

Before close, you verify parts on Quality Hold, releasing conforming product for shipment. You capture data for COPQ metrics and share findings with ISC, Engineering, Purchasing, and Product Management—supporting a culture of continuous improvement that consistently meets or exceeds customer expectations.

What you’ll handle

• Interpretation of engineering drawings to ensure standards are upheld across manufacturing processes.
• In-process inspections at defined stages to address common and identified part issues.
• Focused receiving inspections on supplied components with known/identified risks.
• Recommendations to enhance the quality system, production standards, and processes for better quality and efficiency.
• Rapid assistance to the Quality Manager on urgent quality matters.
• Containment activities for nonconforming material as needed.
• Dimensional checks using a height gage, micrometers, calipers, and other common inspection tools on assemblies, machined parts, weldments, and purchased components.
• Support for external third-party calibration services.
• Creation of NCRs and submission to Purchasing for debit memos; provide detailed defect descriptions and photos to Purchasing and/or suppliers.
• Upkeep of an orderly Non-Conforming Material area.
• Assistance with daily manufacturing and supplier scrap review and disposition.
• Product review and release of parts from Quality Hold for shipment.
• Data collection for COPQ reporting metrics.
• Cross-functional support to ISC, Engineering, Purchasing, and Product Management.
• Other related duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications

Education & credentials

• High school diploma (required)
• Certified Quality Technician (preferred)

Experience

• Incoming Process Control: 3–5 years (required)
• Inspections: 1–3 years (required)
• Assembly production: 3–5 years (desired)
• Distribution or warehousing: 1–3 years (desired)
• Machining or stamping manufacturing: 1–3 years (desired)
• Design or product engineering: 1–3 years (desired)

Skills

• Self-driven, accountable, and comfortable working with limited direction.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Clear written communication for routine reports and correspondence.
• Effective verbal communication with groups of colleagues or customers.
• Strong math skills: add, subtract, multiply, divide in inch and metric; work with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent; create and interpret bar graphs.
• Apply instructions from written, verbal, or diagrammatic sources and solve problems with multiple variables.

Compliance

*This position is a safety-sensitive position. The position requires operating or working around heavy equipment, which if performed while under the influence of drugs (including marijuana) or alcohol could result in errors in judgment, inattentiveness or diminished coordination, dexterity or composure that could in turn result in mistakes that would endanger the health and safety of you and others.