Quality Inspector
Dalgren Precision • Grand Rapids, MI
$25–$30/hr · On-site · Full time
Verified practicesVerified practicesPosted 4 weeks ago · 6 applicantsAccessibility verification
What Dalgren Precision has confirmed, with the source
Accessible digital documents
Employer reported · May 28, 2026Sign-language interpreter at work
Two of our shift leads are fluent in ASL. Interpreters booked for formal meetings.
Employer reported · May 28, 2026Visual alerts and alarms
Strobe alarms — required by our hearing-protection policy.
Verified by Openwork · May 28, 2026Step-free entrance
Verified by Openwork · May 28, 2026Elevator to all work areas
Single-story shop; offices on the ground floor.
Employer reported · May 28, 2026Accessible restroom
Verified by Openwork · May 28, 2026Also confirmed: accessible workstation, accessible parking, reachable by public transport, ergonomic equipment, advance notice of changes, information not shown by color alone, high-contrast display, flexible breaks, job coach welcome at work, workplace mentor or buddy, works with vocational rehabilitation. Ask about: clear non-visual wayfinding.
What you’ll actually do
Inspect finished components against aerospace and medical tolerances in a climate-controlled inspection room, separate from the shop floor.
- Collect the next tray of parts and its inspection plan
- Set up the part on the CMM or hand gauges
- Measure each feature against the drawing
- Record results on the inspection plan
- Quarantine and write up anything out of tolerance
Skills and experience
Required
- Two years in inspection or precision measurement
- Read engineering drawings and GD&T
Preferred
- CMM programming
- AS9100 or ISO 13485
How this job works
- Schedule
- The same hours every week
- Meetings
- 0–1 per week
- Independent or collaborative
- Mostly independent work
- Customer contact
- None
- Switching between tasks
- Long stretches on one task
- Feedback
- In writing
- Instructions
- Mostly in writing
- Noise and surroundings
- Consistently quiet
- Standing
- Some standing, with the option to sit
- Sitting
- Some sitting
- Walking
- Some walking between areas
- Lifting
- Up to 25 lb
- Fine hand movements
- Constant precise hand work
- Technology
- Zeiss Calypso (CMM), Digital gauges and micrometers, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Teams
- Hours
- First shift only, 6:00 to 14:30, Monday to Friday.
Hiring process
Application review · within 3 business days
Reviewed by the Quality Manager.
Measurement work sample · about 90 minutes
Inspect five parts against a supplied drawing.
Structured interview · about 45 minutes
Set questions, shared in advance. Interpreter or text format on request. Support person welcome.
Decision · within 3 business days
A call or text, then a written offer.
About two weeks. Available on request: interview questions shared in advance, work sample instead of an interview, structured interview, support person or job coach welcome and more.