Quality Inspector

Quality Control Inspector

TVS SCS North America keeps America’s supply chains moving. We deliver two core services: Integrated Supply Chain Solutions and Global Forwarding Solutions, tailored to each customer’s needs. Through Integrated Supply Chain Solutions, our teams run high-performing warehouse, in-plant, and value-added operations that keep manufacturers producing and product moving. Through Global Forwarding Solutions, we manage the movement of freight across air, ocean, and land, helping customers run smarter, leaner, and more resilient supply chains.

Backed by the global strength and technology of TVS Supply Chain Solutions, a partner trusted by more than 90 Fortune 500 companies, we’re one of the fastest-growing supply chain partners in North America. Our U.S. teams operate with a hands-on, solutions-driven mindset, grounded in safety, innovation, and operational excellence, and guided by our core values of trust, value, service, and innovation. Here, you can make a real impact, solve real logistics challenges, and grow your career alongside a team that believes in the power of us.

Summary

As a Quality Control Inspector, you are an invaluable manufacturing team member, ensuring the highest production quality from in-process inspections to final inspections. Inspect products and materials visually and with measurement tools like torque wrenches, micrometers, or calipers. Your job is to ensure our products are consistently high quality and adhere to relevant specifications. Support operations and quality teams regarding the quality of the products and materials, process scrap, perform rework and efforts and help solve problems by providing rejection information for root cause analysis.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Perform quality inspections to ensure products and materials meet standards, print and/or specifications
• Conduct quality in process and final inspections
• Document issues noticed during testing, measurement or visual inspection
• Removing products that don’t meet production standards
• Accepting or rejecting finished products and discussing inspection results with the production team and Quality Engineers
• Serve as the primary quality resource to operations
• Interface with quality and operation representatives concerning quality problems
• Directly support the Quality Engineer to adequately control the quality hold area and the disposition of materials and products.
• Directly support Quality Engineer to evaluate causes of scrap and work toward the elimination of such defects
• Coordinate with Operations and direct associates on quality standards
• Regular and reliable attendance at work
• Participate in all TVS SCS quality and excellence initiatives.

Competencies

• Attention to detail
• Be able to follow inspection sheets and work instructions
• Knowledge of basic math and computer skills
• Ability to influence others to follow work instructions, rules and regulations
• Strong leadership skills and teamwork mentality
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Dexterity, physical strength, and physical stamina
• Conscientious
• Adaptable
• Initiative

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The associate may occasionally be required to lift 51 pounds, anything greater than 51 pounds requires assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

This job is performed in a busy warehouse environment with high forklift traffic. Warehouses are subject to seasonal temperatures. Steel-toed shoes, safety glasses and vests are required personal protective equipment (PPE). It is estimated a 10% office environment and 90% warehouse environment.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

Full Time, Non-Exempt. Schedule flexibility for extended or unplanned work hours is required.

Travel

Travel is not expected for this position.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or GED certificate
• Ability to read work instructions/inspection sheets and use precise measurement tools, such as a torque wrench, micrometer, and caliper
• Attention to detail
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Other Duties

Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

TVS SCS NA is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture as an EEO employer. The TVS SCS NA team does not discriminate against candidates and employees because of their disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law within any employment practices. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants; please contact [Hope Molyneaux, JMolyneaux@tvsscs.com] to request a reasonable accommodation. The employee selected for this role must be able to perform the position's essential functions satisfactorily. If requested, reasonable accommodation will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.

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