Quality Control Associate (QC Associate)
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The Quality Control Specialist/Inspector ensures that products, materials, and processes meet defined quality standards and specifications. The role includes inspection, testing, documentation, and process improvement to support compliance and customer satisfaction.
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How this job compares
Set against the 620 open Quality Inspector jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$57–88K/yr63 salary ranges
- US median$25–32/hr285 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 54 open Quality Inspector jobs in Texas and 620 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- SpaceX16 open
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- Experience
- Quality Inspector postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (379 postings).
- Education
- 9 of the 620 open Quality Inspector jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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