Product Grader Food, Wood & Garment Trades Workers

The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

Apply and supervise measures and regulations concerning security and safety in order to maintain a safe environment in the workplace.

Solve problems which arise in planning, prioritising, organising, directing/facilitating action and evaluating performance. Use systematic processes of collecting, analysing, and synthesising information to evaluate current practice and generate new understandings …

Implement the relevant procedures, strategies and use the proper equipment to promote local or national security activities for the protection of data, people, institutions, and property.

Use various techniques to ensure the product quality is respecting the quality standards and specifications. Oversee defects, packaging and sendbacks of products to different production departments.

Lead inspections and the protocol involved, such as introducing the inspection team, explaining the purpose of the inspection, performing the inspection, requesting documents, asking appropriate questions, and maintaining a high …

Maintain equipment used for testing the quality of systems and products.

Measure the size of a processed part when checking and marking it to check if it is up to standard by use of two and three dimensional precision measuring equipment …

Examine and perform tests on prepared samples; avoid any possibility of accidental or deliberate contamination during the testing phase. Operate sampling equipment in line with design parameters.

Take and prepare samples for testing, verify their representability; avoid bias and any possibility of accidental or deliberate contamination. Provide clear numbering, labelling and recording of the sample details, in …

Prepare technical reports that describe results and processes of scientific or technical research, or assess its progress. These reports help researchers to keep up to date with recent findings.

Gather and process descriptive data by using documents such as sketches, drawings and notes.

Utilise computer equipment or digital devices to facilitate quality control, data management, and communication. Follow instructions given by a computer programme, create computer files or documents.

The steps required through which a material is transformed into a product, its development and full-scale manufacturing.

Quality assurance principles, standard requirements, and the set of processes and activities used for measuring, controlling and ensuring the quality of products and processes.

The techniques used to assess the characteristics of materials, products and systems without causing damage, such as ultrasonic, radiographic, and remote visual inspection and testing.

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Techniques and methods of estimation and evaluation of system quality and overall database quality, as well as the set quality standards and regulations.

The features of several grading systems such as FAS (Firsts and Seconds) and various forms of SEL (Select) and Common, which are used to buy and sell lumber worldwide.

Analyse production processes leading toward improvement. Analyse in order to reduce production losses and overall manufacturing costs.

Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.

Check products for quality on the production line and remove defective items before and after packaging.

Check the quality of basic materials used for the production of semi-finished and finished goods by assessing some of its characteristics and, if needed, select samples to be analysed.

Conduct experimental, environmental and operational tests on models, prototypes or on the systems and equipment itself in order to test their strength and capabilities under normal and extreme conditions.

Monitor activities and perform tasks ensuring compliance with standards involving environmental protection and sustainability, and amend activities in the case of changes in environmental legislation. Ensure that the processes are …

Read the technical drawings of a product made by the engineer in order to suggest improvements, make models of the product or operate it.

Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.

Recomend product modifications and process improvements.

Maintain required company records and forms in order to report any defective materials or questionable conditions of manufacturing machinery and equipment.

Revise quality control documents. Read through the documents, editing them, and revise items in the documentation like the numbering scheme, process to create new documents, revision and follow up process, …

Use specific non-destructive testing methods and equipment that do not cause any damage to the product, such as X-rays, ultrasonic testing, magnetic particle inspection, industrial CT scanning and others, in …

Understand and use technical documentation in the overall technical process.

Use equipment to test performance and operation of machinery.

Check and safely operate machines and equipment required for your work according to manuals and instructions.

Compose technical customer reports understandable for people without technical background.

Assess the quality of engineered wood looking for flaws, incomplete gluing, and irregularities.

Oversee pulp quality based on their pulping process, raw materials, yield, fibre length and other categories such as dirt, moisture content, porosity, density, and brightness.

Realise possible improvements for processes to increase productivity, improve efficiency, increase quality, and streamline procedures.

Anticipate situations that could be damaging to the workplace and the processes undergone there by drawing attention to possible undesired outcomes and suggesting preventive actions.