Job Purpose To ensure product quality through raw material inspection, in-process inspection, job inspection, final inspection, testing, and documentation as per customer drawings, specifications, and quality standards.

1. Key Responsibilities

A.

Raw Material

Inspection

- Inspect incoming scrap, ferroalloys, and other raw materials.

- Verify material certificates and chemical composition requirements.

- Maintain material inspection and traceability records.

B. In-Process Inspection

- Conduct inspection at melting, moulding, core making, pouring, fettling, grinding, and finishing stages.

- Monitor process parameters and identify casting defects.

- Verify chemical composition through spectrometer testing and maintain heat-wise records.

- Ensure corrective action is taken for quality deviations.

C. Job Inspection

- Inspect each job as per approved customer drawings, specifications, and inspection plans.

- Verify job identification, heat number, grade, quantity, and traceability.

- Conduct visual inspection for cracks, blowholes, porosity, shrinkage, sand inclusions, and other casting defects.

- Perform dimensional inspection using suitable measuring instruments and gauges.

- Check machining jobs, where applicable, for dimensions, tolerances, surface finish, and drawing compliance.

- Prepare job inspection reports and record inspection results.

- Identify, segregate, and report non-conforming jobs.

- Coordinate with Production, Fettling, Machining, and other departments to resolve quality issues.

D.

Final

Inspection

- Conduct final visual and dimensional inspection before dispatch.

- Verify customer-specific requirements and applicable acceptance criteria.





- Ensure all required inspection and testing activities are completed before release.

- Prepare final inspection reports and maintain job-wise records.

E. Testing and Quality Documentation

- Coordinate hardness testing, chemical analysis, and non-destructive testing (NDT), wherever required.

- Maintain inspection reports, rejection records, rework reports, and test certificates.

- Maintain calibration status of measuring instruments.

- Support ISO 9001 / IATF 16949 requirements and customer quality audits, as applicable.

F. Non-Conformance and Corrective Action

- Identify and report internal and customer-reported quality problems.

- Conduct root cause analysis and coordinate corrective and preventive actions.

- Monitor rejection, rework, and scrap levels.

- Verify the effectiveness of corrective actions.

G. Coordination and Reporting

- Coordinate with Production, Melting, Moulding, Fettling, Machining, and Dispatch departments.

- Report quality issues to the Quality Manager / Plant Head.

- Ensure only accepted jobs proceed to the next process or dispatch.

1. Required Skills

- Knowledge of steel casting manufacturing processes and casting defects.

- Ability to read engineering drawings and understand dimensional tolerances.

- Knowledge of measuring instruments such as Vernier calipers, micrometers, height gauges, and bore gauges.

- Basic knowledge of spectrometer testing, hardness testing, and NDT methods.

- Knowledge of inspection reports, quality documentation, and root cause analysis.

- Valuable communication, observation, and problem-solving skills.

Pay: ₹12,000.00 - ₹20,000.00 per month

Benefits

- Health insurance

- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

📌 Quality Control Engineer (Kolhapur)
🏢 Sumukh Steel Castings
📍 Kolhapur