Good people tend not to stay in the quality, inspection or that whole side of the business for just this reason.
Add that everyone hates you and either thinks you a prick from the production side or at fault and a added cost from the management side.
Despite the efforts of Demming and others it is not a highly redeemed job and pays less than the operations position that says "Just ship it".
The career exception being if a person in this goes to work for a gauge or cmm builder.
I have to ask the OP, will this job pay more than the highest paid machinist on the floor?
Bob
Why would it?
Ass-u-ming a 'real' machinist and not button pusher. I have my personal feelings about QC
in general, but what makes their skillset more valuable than the guy making the parts?
I know my experiences have all been relatively negative so there is that.
1) Was chasing tolerances on a part some years back and wondering why the hell we are moving our offset plus, than minus, then back to plus... the "quality" guy was clamping the part with one clamp on cmm table, pushing (really pushing!) a gage pin up to establish datum, then taking gage pin back out by twisting the pin. Never occured to him that he might me moving the part around and that's why each one was getting different results.
2) Guy rejecting plus or minus .005" stuff by using a tenth indicator and trying to scrap every one if it was 1 tenth out either way. (Of which I can see the argument, but common sense would tell you that was a bit overkill IMO, especially considering this was a digital indicator and you could see it vary a tenth or two every time you hit the zero/origin button)
3) One guy was checking a hole in stamped part and didn't get he was probing the break out section, not the peirced section and saying it was .005" over or something when you could clearly gage pin it and see it
was not .005" oversize. Same guy used to slam the probe around single hits and report whatever numbers popped up, without any consideration if it could possibly be right. Oh, and this same place used to 'calibrate' our tape measures, but mics, indicators, nah those don't need it! LMAO