Gaston College Apprenticeship 321

On-the-job Training

• Primary Responsibilities
  • Tests and inspects products at various stages of production process and compiles and evaluates statistical data to determine and maintain quality and reliability of products.
  • Interprets engineering drawings, schematic diagrams, or formulas and confers with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards.
  • Selects products for tests at specified stages in production process, and tests products for variety of qualities, such as dimensions, performance, and mechanical, electrical, or chemical characteristics.
  • Records test data, applying statistical quality control procedures.
  • Evaluates data and writes reports to validate or indicate deviations from existing standards.
  • Recommends modifications of existing quality or production standards to achieve optimum quality within limits of equipment capability.
  • Set up and perform destructive and nondestructive tests on materials, parts, or products to measure performance, life, or material characteristics.
  • Prepare graphs or charts of data or enter data into computer for analysis.
  • Specialize in particular area of quality control engineering, such as design, incoming material, process control, product evaluation, inventory control, product reliability, research and development, and administrative application.
  • Engineering Drawing and Related Documentation: learn the rules, principles and methods of dimensioning and tolerancing used to define the required condition of a part or component based on a drawing as used by both industry and government.
  • Take simple measurements using standard measuring instruments such as micrometers, dial verniers, depth micrometers, etc.
  • General care and maintenance of inspection equipment.
  • Assist the inspector in the set-up of inspection for the taking of more diffult measures such as coordinate and concentricity measurements, datum locations, angularity, etc
  • Assist Production Management team in streamlining processes to improve factory's efficiency.
  • Perform time-motion studies on shop employees to determine effective manpower planning.
  • Assist Operation Management team in identifying efficient vendor selection, material buy requirement, material scheduling, material storage, and outbound logicistics for on-time delivery of material finished goods to customers.
  • Prepare written summaries to validate or show devaitions from established standards.