Quality Control Inspector

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Valmont modernizes vital infrastructure and increases agricultural productivity, sustainably and reliably. The company galvanizes steel to last a century with minimal environmental impact.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Quality Control Inspector who will be responsible for analyzing and interpreting prints, data, manuals, and other materials to determine specifications, identify pole errors, and inspection and testing procedures, for work being performed on all concrete poles.  This includes recording inspection or testing data such as weights, temperatures, grades, moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.

Responsible for performing visual, dimensional, ultrasonic, and magnetic particle testing to verify product to drawings and customer specifications.

Education Level

• High School Diploma or equivalent

Work Experience

• 2 years of previous Quality Control experience in a manufacturing or fabrication environment

Duties/Responsibilities

• Inspect product for compliance with ASTM 123.
• Must be able to measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.
• Inspect the Product following Valmont WI-10.16.
• Responsible for inspecting, testing, concrete sampling, moisture testing, conducting cosmetics work/profiling, or measuring materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.
• Post Galvanizing toe Crack Inspection.
• Inspect products to ensure compliance with any customer-specific requirements.
• Photograph specific loads per customer and Valmont criteria.
• Complete required inspection documentation.
• Must be able to perform Moisture Testing, check cages, and read drawings. Verify the demolding process, check profiles, and mark poles with correct information.
• Checking static work and being able to break test cylinders and record data as well as collect and record strand coil data.
• Must be able to verify strand elongation per the engineered specifications on each pole and perform a wall thickness profile per SOP specification.
• Be able to perform a wall thickness profile per SOP specification along with a layout in a mold per engineered drawings.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to use both imperial and metric measuring systems
• Ability to work overtime as required to meet business needs
• Able to multiply, divide, add, and subtract proficiently
• Able to use tape measures, micrometers, dial indicators, radius gauges, and PI tapes along with other basic shop tools
• Must be able to read and interpret blueprints and identify pole errors
• Must be able to read and write legibly and must have computer literacy
• Must be able to understand sufficient mathematical skills to be able to use both decimals and fractions, converting both ways
• Must have a high awareness of safety at all times
• Passion and integrity with the drive to excel and deliver exceptional results
• Possess working knowledge of welding processes, certification codes and standards, blueprint reading, and shop math.
• The ability to communicate and interact with coworkers in a positive manner
• The ability to safely lift up to 20 pounds frequently throughout the shift

Credible Qualifications

• ASQ Quality Inspector certification
• ACI Certification preferred
• Current welding qualification
• Ability to pass the Certified Quality Inspector (CQI) accreditation from the American Society for Quality (ASQ-CQI) within the first three years of starting the position

Benefits/Perks

• 401k retirement plan with company match
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave
• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)
• Paid time off
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services, and more
• Work-Life Support

Employer’s Statement

Valmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.