Gear Inspector

Forest City Gear Co., Inc.

Roscoe, IL


Job Details

Job Location:    Forest City Gear - Roscoe, IL
Position Type:    Full Time
Salary Range:    Undisclosed
Travel Percentage:    Negligible
Job Shift:    2nd Shift

Description

Support production to ensure proper standards and procedures are followed while reducing scrap. Inspection of incoming, in-process, and final for all jobs as needed.

Essential Job Functions:

  • Review data and revisions on job sheet, prints, and variable sheets
  • Compare new and previous 1st Articles to verify data
  • 1st piece inspection approval
  • SPC and P-PAP customer requirements
  • Communicate inspection results to customers as needed
  • Create and utilize inspection programs
  • Provide inspection support for outside operations
  • Ability to operate all inspection equipment within the quality department
  • As needed, assist with blank inspection from internal blanking and blank suppliers
  • Responsible for control of calibration of inspection equipment including but not limited to micrometers and gauges

Non-Essential Job Functions:

  • Inspection on all other operations as needed
  • Ability to cross-train others
  • Must move to specific departments to complete in-process as required by workflow or absence of roaming inspector

Environmental Conditions:

  • Noise intensity level exposed with this job Moderate

Qualifications


  • Ability to operate vari-roll testing fixtures
  • General understanding of gear cutting processes
  • Basic understanding of CMM
  • Ability to use optical comparator
  • Ability to use Vinco Optical Dividing Machine
  • Skills with calipers, micrometers, and gages
  • Communication skills to train others as needed
  • Basic math & geometry skills
  • Basic materials knowledge
  • Must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time
  • Ability to create tooth/space alignment layouts

Education & Experience:

  • Minimum 3 years inspection experience in gear manufacturing OR 10 years inspection experience with 1 year in gear-specific inspection

Physical Demands:

  • Ability to lift/carry 40 pounds or less

(upward pulling)

  • Lift/carry Occasionally
  • Stooping Not Required

    (bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist, requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles)

  • Reaching Occasionally

    (extending hands and arms in any direction including upward and downward)

  • Walking Occasionally
    (with normal breaks)
  • Sitting Occasionally

    (with normal breaks)

  • Standing Frequently

(with normal breaks)

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