Other denominations
Quality controller; Quality analyst; Quality control analyst
Description
Quality has become a crucial factor in determining companies' competitiveness, building up trust among customers and consumers with regards to the product supplied and ensuring a heightened degree of efficiency in processes. The aim of quality control is to meet the quality targets required for the different operations. It covers the whole of the production process, from raw materials to final products, including all of the possible intermediate stages. The role of the quality control technician has emerged as a progression of the figure of the laboratory analyst, and forms part of production support teams or companies' quality departments. Their responsibilities include taking statistic samples of raw materials and intermediate and finished products, carrying out routine and non-routine tests using set methods, calibrating and performing maintenance on equipment, managing the documentation related to trials and samples, ensuring compliance with specifications, reviewing possible deviations, and drawing up technical documentation. These technicians may specialise in a particular area of the quality control process (raw materials, process control, inventories, product assessment, R&D, etc.), and may, as they gain more experience, move up in the company, becoming shift quality managers, laboratory supervisors or quality assurance technicians.
Tasks
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