Quality Control Engineer

Hard Skills" and "Soft Skills" required to maintain the high standards of a precision machine shop. You can use this for self-assessment, hiring, or performance reviews.

🛠️ Technical Mastery (The "Hard" Skills)

Metrology & Inspection

• [ ] Tool Selection: Matching tool resolution to part tolerance (e.g., using a Micrometer instead of a Caliper for tolerances < \pm 0.05\text{ mm}).

• [ ] CMM Literacy: Ability to interpret CMM reports and understand alignment strategies (3-2-1).

• [ ] Surface Finish: Understanding the impact of tool paths on R_a and R_z values.

• [ ] Calibration Management: Ensuring all floor gages are within their calibration window.

GD&T & Blueprint Reading

• [ ] Constraint Logic: Understanding how Datums (A, B, C) fix the part in 3D space.

• [ ] Modifier Application: Applying Maximum Material Condition (MMC) to calculate bonus tolerances.

• [ ] Profile Control: Using profile tolerances to control complex, non-linear shapes.

Data & Statistics

• [ ] Capability Indices: Monitoring C_{pk} to ensure processes aren't just "passing" but are centered and stable.

• [ ] Control Limits: Distinguishing between Specification Limits (what the customer wants) and Control Limits (what the machine is doing).

• [ ] MSA/Gage R&R: Proving that the measurement system is reliable and repeatable.

Machine maintenance - machine maintenance routine check list as per iso and machine guidance

Environment assurance - environmental and seafty check list as per iso and compliance

🧠 Strategic & Problem Solving (The "Soft" Skills)

Root Cause Analysis

• [ ] Structured Investigation: Moving beyond "operator error" to find systemic causes using 5-Whys or Fishbone diagrams.

• [ ] Risk Assessment: Identifying potential failure points in a new setup using PFMEA.

Communication & Culture

• [ ] Machinist Collaboration: Ability to deliver bad news (rejected parts) in a way that encourages "Total Quality" rather than defensiveness.

• [ ] Customer Liaison: Translating technical inspection data into clear, concise FAIR (First Article Inspection) or PPAP reports for the client.

📂 Documentation & Compliance

• [ ] Traceability: Ensuring every part can be traced back to a specific material heat lot and operator.

• [ ] Non-Conformance (NCR): Precise documentation of what went wrong, where it is held, and how it will be disposed of (Rework, Scrap, or Use-As-Is).

• [ ] Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): Writing clear work instructions for inspectors to ensure consistency across shifts.

ISO - documentation and implementing and training to juniors

AS standards- documentation and implementation and training to juniors

📂 supply and dispatch Documentation & Compliance

Final operation - De buring , cleaning, countering, taping, lubricanting, counting and packing

documents- check sheet, inspection reports, test reports, supply sheets update, dispatch records

Traceability: Ensuring every part can be traced back to a specific material heat lot and operator.

• It is a Full Time Manufacturing job for candidates with 2 - 6+ years Experience.