
Quality Final Inspector
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The Quality Final Inspector ensures aluminum and magnesium foundry castings meet quality requirements before shipping. The role performs dimensional and visual inspections, reads engineering drawings, uses measuring devices, and supports gauge calibration and quality issue resolution. The inspector records findings in database systems, prepares inspection plans, and works with foundry personnel and the Quality Team to verify specifications and maintain quality processes.
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This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/13813268 Basic Function: Responsible for ensuring that all foundry aluminum and magnesium castings meet quality control requirements prior to shipping. Incumbent will assist in the electronic and mechanical gage calibration process and assist quality team in resolving quality issues. Must learn to effectively utilize database systems to record monitor quality findings. Must be able to read/interpret engineering drawings and blueprints, perform dimensional checks, and visual inspections for overall quality and craftsmanship. Position necessitates communication with a wide variety of foundry individuals and the Quality Team. Must understand how to use measuring devices and have knowledge of quality processes and acceptable quality standards. Prepare Inspection plans and enter in database. Responsibilities: Accurate scanning in and out on jobs and the proper reporting of processed quantities. Wear proper safety equipment; keep work area clean and safe at all times. Understand customer requirements, our companies internal scrap challenges, rework, customer returns, the impact they have on your job and demonstrate ability to deliver quality & efficient workmanship. Review & inspect all material being used, building self-inspection into everything you make/process Complete, date and sign-off/scan all routing information Perform job tasks in an efficient manner according to given standards Assist Quality Team and MRB through input of daily scrap entries, weekly monitoring of system NCs, PAs, CPAs and creation of MRB rework tickets as needed. Determine inspection procedure to ensure complete verification of specifications and dimensions. Obtain necessary fixtures, gauges, and indicators to check castings for compliance with specifications. Ensure conformance to specifications Read blueprints or engineering specifications to obtain casting information such as specified material, surface finish, and dimension requirements; ability to compare surface finish of work piece to finish requirements Assist Quality in data control, documentation, updates of procedures and work instructions and resolving quality issues utilizing continuous improvement techniques to solve quality problems. Pass validated inspection assessment if required. Must be responsible for control of quality acceptance stamps and proper placement procedures. Inspector must be capable of working in at least one inspection area with all testing requirements complete. Assist all inspectors to maintain FIFO of castings through the plant. Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor or manager of the department. Skills: Candidate must work independently with minimal direction and take responsibility for implementation of projects as required; Ability to effectively communicate required information to vendors, customers, and employees, pass validated inspection assessment Education/Training: High School diploma or equivalent; ASQ or Quality related education preferred Experience: Minimum of 5 years experience performing final inspection, preferably in an aerospace business Knowledge of ISO9000 Basic blueprint reading Ability to interpret basic Geometric, Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T). Basic computers skills. Data entry, Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
How this job compares
Set against the 568 open Quality Inspector jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$57–87K/yr55 salary ranges
- US median$25–33/hr254 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 568 open Quality Inspector jobs across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Quality Inspector postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (352 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 260 of the 568 open Quality Inspector jobs (46%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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