Description
Supervise daily quality control activities across production and laboratory operations. Implement QA programs, enforce standards, coordinate testing, and lead QC staff to ensure compliant products and continuous improvement.
- • Stop production when serious defects are detected.
- • Review contractor quality plans and escalate for approval.
- • Stay current on QC methods, regulations, and trends; brief the team.
- • Monitor QC supplies and resource usage; submit requests to management.
- • Evaluate and pilot new testing or sampling methods; provide feedback.
- • Coordinate calibration, maintenance, and proper use of QC equipment.
- • Collect and analyze production samples to assess quality.
- • Participate in audits of suppliers and external laboratories.
- • Verify raw materials, components, in-process, and finished goods meet standards.
- • Maintain and verify quality documentation for audits and inspections.
- • Enforce SOPs and recommend updates.
- • Prepare reports on nonconformances, daily quality, root causes, and trends.
- • Provide shop-floor input to product specifications.
- • Support new product trials and identify scale-up quality risks.
- • Communicate quality expectations to vendors and contractors; follow up on corrections.
- • Identify quality issues and areas for improvement and recommend solutions.
- • Train and coach inspectors, technicians, and operators in QC procedures.
- • Ensure sampling plans are applied at critical process points.
- • Ensure testing procedures and acceptance criteria are documented and followed.
- • Oversee tracking of defects, test results, and quality KPIs.
- • Implement inspection and testing criteria; suggest improvements.
- • Relay customer requirements and quality expectations to the team.
- • Communicate QC information to production, engineering, and suppliers.
- • Analyze test results and provide feedback to production management and staff.
- • Supervise QC inspectors, technicians, and lab personnel.
- • Monitor QC system performance and drive corrective and preventive actions.
- • Direct product testing activities throughout production cycles.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
