612 Quality Control Inspectors jobs in the United Kingdom

Quality Control Inspector - FTC (6 months) 

Business Need / Purpose of Role:

Responsible for performing various inspection tasks within the Company under the instruction of the Inspection Team Leader whilst working with your colleagues in the inspection team to ensure conformance to Company standards, specifications, and drawings.

Responsibilities and Specific Accountabilities

But not limited to:

    Primary Tasks

• The ability to cover the inspection of products and processes relating to all aspects of quality control with the Company.
• To ensure the conformance of products and processes to relevant specifications and standards and complete and maintain accurate documentation in a timely manner according to the Company requirements.
• Timely Inspections
• Dimensional Reports (where applicable)
• To raise non-conformance reports where any items or processes do not conform to standards or specifications/drawings.
• Using recognised quality control measuring techniques / equipment where manufacturing processes are tightly controlled to ensure the products meet agreed standards.
• Responsible for ensuring that good housekeeping is maintained within all areas.
• To support the promotion of continuous improvement processes within the inspection team for the benefit of the Company (under the supervision of the Inspection Team Leader and / or UK QHSE Lead).
• Ensure all quality control measuring equipment is in calibration when used.
• Provide status updates if / when required efficiently, effectively and in a timely manner.
• Perform any other duty as reasonably requested by the Inspection Lead and / or UK QHSE Lead to ensure the objectives of Inspection Team and the expectations of the customer are met.

• NDE Reports
• Manufacturing Route Cards
• Goods Receiving Notes
• Non-conformance reports
• Work instructions / procedures
• Raw materials certification
• Calibration of inspection equipment
• Factory Acceptance Test Certificates
• Hydrostatic Test inspection

Education and/or Experience:

• Time Server Apprentice
• Engineering qualification is essential, preferably ONC, HNC or equivalent.
• Qualified in DPI, MPI, UT is desirable.
• Experience in PMI, Ferrite & Hardness Testing is desirable.
• Work to high standards of quality, within a strong safety culture and a good working knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & ISO 45001 is desirable.

• Fully experienced with all inspection / measuring equipment such as micrometers, verniers, thread gauges and hardness checking equipment.
• Fully experienced in reading and understanding Engineering drawings (component and assembly).
• Experience of using a Co-ordinate Measuring Machine (manual & CNC) and / or Inspection Arm is desirable.
• Conversant with materials certification.

Equal Opportunities

At Severn Group we are guided by our values in everything we do and recognise that being a diverse and inclusive employer is fundamental to our success. We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on disability, age, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, national origin, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Please note that we will review candidates as applications are received, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date if a suitable candidate is found.

Quality Control Inspector

MONDAY - FRIDAY: 05:00-13:00 (OVERTIME WILL BE AVAILABLE AND APPLICANTS MUST BE FLEXIBLE FOR THIS)

£13.00 - £16.00 PER HOUR

People Solutions are currently recruiting for a Quality Control Inspector to join our well-established client based in the STOURBRIDGE, WEST MIDLANDS.

This is a fantastic opportunity offering great rates of pay and room to grow and progress.

Benefits

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About the opportunity:

We are the internal recruitment partner for our client, a global organisation offering excellence in manufacturing solutions for the aerospace market.

 Are you passionate about precision, quality, and aerospace engineering? Do you thrive in a dynamic manufacturing environment where attention to detail is everything?

 We’re on a mission to deliver excellence and we need a dedicated Quality Control Inspector to help us ensure our products meet the highest standards.

Responsibilities:

• Verifying the conformity of aerospace parts, assemblies, and sub-assemblies to engineering drawings and customer requirements
• Completing detailed and traceable inspection records
• Supporting production teams with batch verifications and first-off inspections
• Compiling First Article Inspection Reports (FAIRs)
• Performing inspections throughout the manufacturing and supply chain process
• Reporting and escalating non-conformances, and supporting root cause investigations
• Actively participating in Continuous Improvement and New Product Introduction meetings

Requirements

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

•  Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications
• Solid experience in inspecting precision components
• Familiarity with inspection tools, CMM equipment, and industry measurement techniques
• Experience in aerospace or pharmaceutical environments preferred
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Confidence to challenge and escalate quality issues
• HND or equivalent qualification, with a good grasp of imperial and metric systems would be desirable.

Benefits

In return we are offering:

•  A competitive salary of £35,000 - £45,000 dependent on skills knowledge and experience.
• Flexible working hours with an early finish every Friday.
• 23 days holiday increasing to 26 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Auto enrolment pension scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• Employee Recognition Scheme.
• Long Service Awards.

 Interested? Then APPLY now for immediate consideration.

In a Nutshell

We have a new opportunity for a Remediation Quality Control Inspector to join our team within Vistry Services, covering various locations around London. As our Remediation Quality Control Inspector, you will be responsible for visiting various sites / offices carrying out the duty of a Site Manager / Quality Control Manager. You will carry out inspections of the works being carried ou.

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Job Title: Quality Control Inspector Electrical
Reports To: Quality and Performance Officer

Role Overview:

As the Quality Control Inspector Electrical, you will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of quality across all building-related projects. This includes responsive and cyclical maintenance, capital investment works, refurbishments, modernisation projects, and new-build developments.

JOB TITLE:     Quality Control Inspector - Furniture   

LOCATION:    Aylesford, Kent

WORKING HOURS: 7am - 4.30pm

A bit about the role.

Are you hands-on, detail-oriented, and passionate about quality? We’re looking for a Quality Control Inspector to join our team and ensure every piece of furniture meets our high standards.

In this role, you’ll carry out quality checks on incoming products, including cabinetry, upholstered items, and electrical components. You’ll plan and conduct inspections, identify and report defects, uphold inspection standards, and work closely with internal teams to maintain product excellence.

You’ll thrive in this role if you’re practical, confident using tools, proactive, reliable, and comfortable working independently or as part of a team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee and perform quality control checks on all incoming product orders, ensuring compliance with company standards.
• Conduct detailed inspections across a wide range of furniture items, including cabinetry, upholstery, electrical components, and more.
• Work toward a target of inspecting 10% of all incoming stock, prioritizing according to business needs.
• Use the inbound delivery calendar to effectively plan and manage your daily and weekly workload.
• Identify and schedule products requiring inspection; full support and training will be provided during the onboarding phase.
• Collaborate closely with the workshop and aftersales teams to understand the product history and review past non-conformance reports.
• Maintain the quality control area to a high standard, ensuring cleanliness and organization after each inspection.
• Remove packaging to carry out thorough physical inspections against technical drawings, logging all issues or defects discovered.
• Where necessary, dismantle products for inspection and reassemble them afterward; confidence in using power tools and woodworking equipment is essential.
• Repackage inspected products to match the original presentation and packaging standards.
• Transfer any rejected or non-compliant items to the designated quarantine area within the warehouse.
• Communicate inspection findings and issues clearly and promptly to the relevant internal departments.
• Occasionally travel within the UK and internationally to conduct supplier inspections or quality assessments.
• Meet deadlines and key performance indicators (KPIs) while remaining adaptable to shifting priorities or urgent tasks.
• Perform additional duties related to quality inspection and control, as required.

Requirements

• Previous experience working with a furniture manufacturer or supplier, ideally in a hands-on environment.
• Proven track record in quality control or inspection within the furniture industry.
• Familiarity with a wide variety of materials and product types, including upholstery and cabinetry. Experience with electrical components is a plus, though not essential.
• Solid understanding of quality assurance standards and procedures.
• Excellent IT skills with competent use of Microsoft Office (mainly Outlook and Excel).
• Confident and experienced in using power tools and hand tools, with practical skills in dismantling, assembling, and working on furniture in a workshop setting.
• Physically capable of performing manual tasks such as lifting, moving, and dismantling furniture. (Manual handling training will be provided.)
• Exceptional attention to detail and a systematic, accurate approach to inspections and record-keeping.
• Proactive, approachable, and confident, with a can-do attitude and willingness to take on varied responsibilities as needed.
• Practical and commercially minded.
• Hardworking, conscientious and take pride in your work.
• Willing and able to travel occasionally, both within the UK and internationally, for supplier site visits or quality inspections.
• Holds a full UK driving license.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills .
• You embody our company people values:
• Teamwork - Collaborate effectively with humility, appreciating and integrating individual skills and perspectives to achieve collective goals.
• Committed - Dedicate yourself fully to your role, going above and beyond with self-motivation and loyalty to achieve individual, team, and company goals.
• Ownership - Take full responsibility for your work, performance, and conduct, acting with integrity, staying organised, and learning from feedback and mistakes.
• Positive - Approach tasks with optimism and innovation, viewing challenges as opportunities, and bringing energy and enthusiasm to inspire and motivate others.
• Responsive - React quickly and effectively to needs and feedback, prioritising tasks with urgency, embracing change, and maintaining a proactive approach.

Why work for us

Pineapple is a leader in designing and manufacturing innovative furniture solutions for challenging environments. A family run company started in 1975, Pineapple is now a global business with headquarters in Kent (UK) and offices in France, Germany and the USA.

Pineapple still runs by its original ethos of creating mindfully designed furniture that not only works effortlessly and looks great but also helps foster a calm and supportive environment. Join Pineapple and be part of a team that is dedicated to making a difference through quality, innovation, sustainability and exceptional customer care.

Benefits

What we offer you

• We were proudly featured in The Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work 2024 & 2025
• Competitive pay
• Pension scheme
• A Healthcare Cash Plan – You can claim for medical expenses, dental or optical services, as well as access to 100s of deals and discounts
• 23 days annual leave + UK bank holidays
• An extra day’s leave for your birthday
• All new starters, we'll plant a tree in your honour. We currently have trees planted in the UK, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Madagascar
• Sustainability-focused – We’re committed to reducing our environmental impact through low carbon operations, renewable energy, and recycled materials
• Regular team socials and events, including summer and Christmas parties. As well as football and netball teams, and other ad hoc events
• Monthly pizza Friday
• Enjoy free fruit, snacks, hot drinks, and cold beverages
• Employee referrals bonus scheme
• Access to our Learning & Development platform, offering a wide range of online courses, certifications, and professional development tools to support your career growth and skill enhancement
• Company volunteering day, 2024, we were at Port Lympne Safari Park picking leaves ready to be frozen for the animals through the winter
• High-quality office environment
• Free onsite parking / within walking distance from the train station

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Agencies we know where you are if we need any support, thank you for your interest in working with Pineapple.

We have a new opportunity for a Remediation Quality Control Inspector to join our team within Vistry Services, covering various locations around London. As our Remediation Quality Control Inspector, you will be responsible for visiting various sites / offices carrying out the duty of a Site Manager / Quality Control Manager. You will carry out inspections of the works being carried out at various stages of the construction process and manage the QA process. you will also carry out inspections of the sites ensuring that all processes and procedures are being carried out correctly and reporting on any issues that you raise and how you have closed them out.

We value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we’re also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated.

• Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
• Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
• Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
• Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
• 2 Volunteering days per annum
• Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
• Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
• Share save and share incentive schemes
• Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…

• Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
• Educated to GSCE/GCE standard in Math’s and English, and/or
• BTEC diploma in Building Construction or an NVQ Level 2 or similar, or City and Guilds in relevant trade
• Valid CSCS card
• Previous experience working as a Customer Care Technician or Site Manager.
• Detailed understanding of NHBC customer handover requirements.
• Building Experience
• Onsite inspection experience
• Housing Developer or Main Contractor background
• Client facing exposure
• Good understanding of Microsoft office, excel, outlook.
• Ability to handle complaints and difficult situations.
• Solid understanding of building regulations and legal obligations.
• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• Capable of strategi vision
• Decision making/problem solving/multi-tasking.
• A polite, tactful and assertive attitude
• Patience and calmness under pressure
• Excellent communication skills
• Good team working skills.
• Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it.

Desirable –

• NVQ levels 3 & 4 in customer services.
• Be working towards or completed an ONC/HND in Construction.
• The candidate must have gained relevant experience within the construction industry or hold relevant qualifications.

• Record non-conformances, assess and implement both corrections and corrective action.
• Identify and record items/processes that lead to non-conformances.
• Assist in the development of the team’s ‘Defect Free’ culture and carry out training where required, in particular mentoring team members.
• The postholder must at all times carry out their duties and responsibilities to comply with Vistry Partnerships policies/procedures.
• Comply with programmes/deadlines etc.
• Conduct site inspections to ensure compliance with contract drawings, specifications and quality and notify their manager of any problems, errors, discrepancies or divergences and non-confirming work.
• To assess the safety of works on site and compliance with current regulations and project requirements and advise of any infringements to the Project Manager/Project Director/Operations Manager and contractor.
• Provide periodic reports as specified, maintain a diary of events, and comply with all procedures and administration identified within the department’s quality assurance policy. Record any delays and reasons for them.
• Arrange and witness as necessary any tests required by the contract or instructed by their manager.
• Attend site meetings.
• Take site photographs regularly and systematically, ensuring they are date endorsed.
• Carry out pre practical completion and end of defects inspections, including preparation of ‘snagging’ lists and ‘back-snagging’ inspections if necessary.
• To effectively manage all customer expectations and deliver excellent customer service, ensuring defects are dealt with promptly, efficiently and to the satisfaction of the customer and company.
• Instruct clients/tenants in workings/use of any technical appliance/equipment installed.
• Attend weekly meetings reporting to the Line Manager on status of all issues within the projects.
• Carry out formal inspections of the works, and attend any benchmark works.
• Ensure that the QA process is followed and is accurate up to date and signed off. Advise changes to procedures as required. Ensure any issues raised are closed out.
• Review, investigate and execute issues arising from customer contact, maintaining proper records and communication to all stakeholders within an agreed timescale.

We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empower us to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation, and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach. 

Join us in making Vistry.  

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Quality Control Inspector and CMM Programmer

Small established aerospace precision engineering company have a opportunity for a PC-Dmis trained CMM programmer to join the team. This is a varied and busy role and will involve completing FAIRs and other aspects of Mechanical Quality inspection for the company.

Key Responsibilities:
- Program and operate Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) to measure complex parts and assemblies utilising PC-DMIS software.
- Conduct thorough inspections of parts, components, and assemblies to verify adherence to design specifications and quality standards.
- Create, review, and interpret detailed inspection reports using High QA software for Fairs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, production, and quality assurance to resolve quality issues and enhance process improvements.
- Maintain accurate documentation of inspection processes, results, and corrective actions for audits and quality assurance programs.
- Ensure all measuring equipment and tools are accurately calibrated and maintained.

Key Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a CMM Programmer with proficiency in PC-DMIS software.
- Comprehensive understanding of GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) principles.
- Demonstrated experience/understanding of completing FAI reports.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to interpret complex engineering drawings and blueprints.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
- Commitment to upholding the highest standards of quality and precision.

Education and Experience:
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in a quality control or inspection role within the manufacturing or aerospace industry is required.

What's on Offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
- A supportive friendly work environment.

This is a permanent job with a starting salary dependant on experience. HRGO are a recruitment agency supporting UK Manufacturing. We aim to respond to all applications.