Quality Inspection Operative
Job Description & Overview
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Berry Recruitment are NOW hiring for a committed and experienced Mechanical Engineering Quality Inspector to work for a well-established machining company in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Role: Mechanical Engineering Quality Inspector</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Salary: Dependant on skill and experience</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday-Thursday 8.00am-4.30pm, Friday 8.00am-1.00pm. Overtime often available.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Duration: Permanent</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Key Responsibilities of the Mechanical Engineering Quality Inspector</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Inspect, confirm and authorise incoming materials and returns from outsourced suppliers.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Approve in-process production and validate first-off measurements.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Maintain and calibrate metrology gauges and equipment in line with ISO 9001</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">requirements.</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Document all inspection results on the company's internal systems.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Raise and investigate NCRs, implementing corrective and preventative measures.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Present KPI statistics for monthly review.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Liaise with customers and suppliers, including conducting audits where required.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Maintain ISO 9001 accreditation as it relates to production.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support the production team in striving for 100% quality.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of the quality system.</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">About you</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Ideally, you will have a mechanical engineering background gained within a manufacturing environment.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Able to interpret engineering drawings and support production improvement initiatives.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Experience using a wide range of measurement equipment and programmable CMM.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Able to demonstrate and pass on your skills and experience in quality inspection.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Fully familiar with, and experienced in working within, an ISO 9001 environment.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">A strong team player with the people skills required to develop and improve the quality culture of the business.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Flexible and able to support other departments where required.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">A continuous improvement focuses with a disciplined and hands-on approach to dimensional inspection.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">The role offers the opportunity to progress towards a full ISO 9001 Quality Management position, as well as ancillary roles such as Health & Safety.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will work closely with the production team to strive for 100% quality.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">No candidate will meet every single desired qualification we have listed. If your experience looks a little different but you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">about you!</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">For more information and to apply, contact the Oxford branch of Berry Recruitment - (phone number removed) or click 'Apply Now' to submit your application.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. All applicants will be considered on the basis of their skills, experience, qualifications and ability to perform the role, and no applicant will be treated less favourably because of a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010</p>
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Key Details
- Date Posted: 24 Sep 2026
- Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire
- Employment Type: Permanent
- Category: Distribution
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