Profession product quality controller

Product quality controllers check the quality of manufactured products. They work in manufacturing facilities where they perform basic inspection and evaluation of products before, during or after the production process. They track production problems and send inferior or malfunctioning items back for repair.

Personality Type

• Conventional / Realistic

Knowledge

• Quality control systems

  Understanding of and experience with product development quality systems or tools such as FMEA, DOE, PPAP and APQP.

• Quality assurance procedures

  The procedures to inspect a product or system to ensure that it is according to specifications and requirements.

• Quality standards

  The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

Skills

• Monitor the production line

  Monitor the production line for problems such as pile-ups and jams.

• Monitor manufacturing quality standards

  Monitor quality standards in manufacturing and finishing process.

• Work in assembly line teams

  Manufacture products on a moving assembly line. Work in a team where everyone has an assigned task.

• Revise quality control systems documentation

  Revise quality control documents. Read through the documents, editing them, and revise items in the documentation like the numbering scheme, process to create new documents, revision and follow up process, closure of non-conformities, methods for tracking documents, etc.

• Manage health and safety standards

  Oversee all personnel and processes to comply with health, safety and hygiene standards. Communicate and support alignment of these requirements with the company's health and safety programmes.

• Support implementation of quality management systems

  Advocate the introduction of new business processes to help achieve quality standards, such as the improvement of the organisational structure or the development of new procedures in case of quality defects.

• Perform quality audits

  Execute regular, systematic and documented examinations of a quality system for verifying conformity with a standard based on objective evidence such as the implementation of processes, effectiveness in achieving quality goals and reduction and elimination of quality problems.

• Oversee quality control

  Monitor and assure the quality of the provided goods or services by overseeing that all the factors of the production meet quality requirements. Supervise product inspection and testing.

• Define quality standards

  Define, in collaboration with managers and quality experts, a set of quality standards to ensure compliance with regulations and help achieve customers' requirements.

• Check quality of products on the production line

  Check products for quality on the production line and remove defective items before and after packaging.

• Track key performance indicators

  Identify the quantifiable measures that a company or industry uses to gauge or compare performance in terms of meeting their operational and strategic goals, using preset performance indicators.

• Write inspection reports

  Write the results and conclusions of the inspection in a clear and intelligible way. Log the inspection's processes such as contact, outcome, and steps taken.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB