Job Description
● Collect and analyze production samples to evaluate quality.
● Analyze quality control test results and provide feedback and interpretation to production management or staff.
● Stop production if serious product defects are present.
● Monitor performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
● Communicate quality control information to all relevant organizational departments, outside vendors, or contractors.
● Instruct staff in quality control and analytical procedures.
● Produce reports regarding nonconformance of products or processes, daily production quality, root cause analyses, or quality trends.
● Participate in the development of product specifications.
● Review statistical studies, technological advances, or regulatory standards and trends to stay abreast of issues in the field of quality control.
● Identify critical points in the manufacturing process and specify sampling procedures to be used at these points.
● Create and implement inspection and testing criteria or procedures.
● Oversee workers including supervisors, inspectors, or laboratory workers engaged in testing activities.
● Document testing procedures, methodologies, or criteria.
● Review and update standard operating procedures or quality assurance manuals.
● Identify quality problems or areas for improvement and recommend solutions.
● Verify that raw materials, purchased parts or components, in-process samples, and finished products meet established testing and inspection standards.
● Review quality documentation necessary for regulatory submissions and inspections.
● Generate and maintain quality control operating budgets.
● Direct the tracking of defects, test results, or other regularly reported quality control data.
● Evaluate new testing and sampling methodologies or technologies to determine usefulness.
● Direct product testing activities throughout production cycles.
● Instruct vendors or contractors on quality guidelines, testing procedures, or ways to eliminate deficiencies.
● Coordinate the selection and implementation of quality control equipment, such as inspection gauges.
● Monitor the development of new products to help identify possible problems for mass production.
● Confer with marketing and sales departments to define client requirements and expectations.
● Review and approve quality plans submitted by contractors.
● Audit and inspect subcontractor facilities including external laboratories.