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Quality Sheet Metal Inspector

Stoughton
Stoughton, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 7/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/7/2026

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for adherence to the Cardinal Rules of Safety. 
  • Read and interpret inspection procedures, blueprints, engineering drawings, tolerances and specifications and apply requirements in sheet metal inspection activities. 
  • Select and use measurement gages to verify quality characteristics, both variables and attributes, and evaluate results to determine conformance to drawing/blueprint specifications. 
  • Lead efforts to assist teams with assigned inspection and measurement activities on the sheet metal fab production floor to support problem identification, containment, and resolution.  
  • Interpret component blueprints/drawings and apply requirements in First Article Inspection (FAI) and any assigned PPAP sample inspection activities. 
  • Complete assigned inspection tasks that include continuous and/or lot-by-lot sampling inspection, random part sampling audits, First Piece Inspection (FPI). 
  • Escalate, alert rapidly any Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) miss, nonconformances and observed quality issues to operators, leads, supervisors, managers. 
  • Provide adequate support to operations in necessary sorting, inspection, containment, and segregation of non-conforming material from production inventory. 
  • Actively document and update actions on quality issues with supporting documentation and feedback. 
  • Support and actively participate in Quality Management System (QMS) audit activities as and when required. 

Qualifications: 

  • Education:
    • HS Diploma required with Quality inspection work experience in fabrication, sheet metal manufacturing operations. 
  • Licenses/Certifications:
    • N/A
  • Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
    • Basic HS math knowledge/skills, comfortable with numbers, data. 
    • Demonstrated understanding, knowledge and proven experience in performing measurement, in-process quality inspection of fabricated sheet metal parts. 
    • Proven experience in the use and application of measurement gages/instruments such as vernier calipers, micrometers, other quality inspection and measurement instruments. 
    • Problem solving aptitude, knowledge in FAI, FPI, ISIR, and blueprint reading. 
  • Core Competencies:
    • Persistent and tenacious in follow up and follow through to track, monitor and close out issues taking all to the finish line. 
    • Move with a high sense of urgency, bias for action, drive for results, process critical reasoning/thinking skills. 
    • Self-motivated, confident, energetic, proactive. 
    • Well organized, self-starter and a team player both as a member and leader. 
    • Ability to multi-task and prioritize work assignments. 
    • Good oral and written communications skills, interpersonal behavioral skills. 
    • Proficient in computer skills including MS Excel spreadsheets, use of tablets for data collection/tracking. 

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