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Hours Full-time
Location Saint Louis, Missouri

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Job Description

Job Description
Sunnen Products Company is seeking a detail‑oriented Quality Control Inspector to join our team. In this role, you will inspect parts, assemblies, gages, and machines to ensure they meet specifications; troubleshoot quality issues; and provide technical support to engineering, production, purchasing, and process control teams. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a hands‑on manufacturing environment and enjoys solving problems with precision and accuracy.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Inspect process parts and compare them to engineering prints using a variety of gages and machines. 
  • Review machine setups and notify production of out‑of‑tolerance conditions. 
  • Assist shop personnel with inspection methods and print interpretation. 
  • Prepare written program updates and enter required commands. 
  • Record actual values for new or revised parts for engineering documentation. 
  • Inspect purchased parts and components to ensure they meet print and purchase requirements. 
  • Label and reject defective incoming parts as needed. 
  • Retrieve and review prints, routings, bills of materials, and related documentation. 
  • Prepare written updates for QCI standards for machines and gages. 
  • Compare machine output gages to QCI standards. 
  • Complete stock audits. Create IHTRs, receive rejects, and communicate findings.

Physical Requirements:
  • Regular standing, walking, climbing, stooping, crouching, pushing, pulling, reaching, grasping, and handling parts. 
  • Light physical effort overall; may lift 25-50 lbs occasionally and over 50 lbs rarely
  • Strong close‑vision ability for reading gauges, blueprints, and precision measuring instruments.

Work Environment:
  • Generally good working conditions. Occasional exposure to elements, but not to an uncomfortable degree.

Experience::
  • Advanced shop mathematics required. 
  • Equivalent to a formal apprenticeship. 
  • 3-5 years of experience in a similar inspection or machining role.

Required Skills and Abilities:
  • Strong attention to detail. 
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and technical documents. 
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. 
  • Strong problem‑solving skills in standardized situations. 
  • Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.

Tools & Equipment:
  • Experience with computers and common software applications, Hand tools, and Precision measuring instruments (e.g., micrometers, calipers, dial indicators)

Sunnen offers a wide variety of benefits for our employees, such as:
  • Competitive Insurance Coverage, eligible on the first of the month after hire date:
    • Medical (High Deductible Plan with Employer HSA Contribution)
    • Dental
    • Vision
    • Life and AD&D
    • Accident
    • Critical Illness
    • Hospital Indemnity
  • 401(k) Eligibility
  • Company Paid Benefits:
    • Group Life and AD&D Insurance
    • Short Term Disability
    • Long Term Disability
    • Employee Assistance Program
  • Competitive Vacation Policy
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Paid Plant Closure Between Christmas and New Year's Day
We require a background and SSN check, drug test, and physical for pre-employment.


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Posting ID: 1271974143 Posted: 2026-08-03 Job Title: Quality Control Inspector