Certified Mechanical Inspector
Job Field: Architect / Engineering Jobs
Location: Texas
JOB SUMMARY:
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications
- Analyze and interpret blueprints, data, manuals, and other materials to determine specification, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment and certification methods, formulas, and measuring instruments required.
- Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications
- Notify supervisors and other personnel of production problems, and assist in identifying and correcting these problems
- Discuss inspection results with those responsible for products, and recommend necessary corrective actions
- Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded
- Mark items with details such as grade or acceptance-rejection status
- Observe and monitor production operations and equipment to ensure conformance to specifications and make or order necessary process or assembly adjustments
- Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers
- Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results
- Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models
- Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders and submit discrepancy reports when problems are found
- Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates or samples to verify conformance to standards
- Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs
- Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels
- Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces
- Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections
- Clean, maintain, repair, and calibrate measuring instruments and test equipment such as dial inspectors, fixed gauges, and height gauges
- Stack and arrange tested products for furthering processing, shipping, or packaging and transport products to other work stations as necessary
- additional duties as assigned by management