Product grader jobs in Finland
Product graders perform preventive and operational quality control on products and rescources. They inspect, grade and evaluate the materials at various stages to make sure it conforms to the desired standard, and send the product back for repair or improvement if necessary. They work in companies and industrial facilities to ensure the produced commodities achieve quality standards.
Product grader – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 19.44 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 15.27 €/h |
| Top tenth | 24.86 €/h |
| Employees | 498 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 18.81 €/h | 193 |
| Men | 20.07 €/h | 305 |
Product grader - Which skills are essential?
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 about practice.
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.
Gather and process descriptive data by using documents such as sketches, drawings and notes.
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.
Monitor quality standards in manufacturing and finishing process.
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 such as a caliper, a micrometer, and a measuring gauge.
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.
Specify the criteria by which data quality is measured for business purposes, such as inconsistencies, incompleteness, usability for purpose and accuracy.
Define, in collaboration with managers and quality experts, a set of quality standards to ensure compliance with regulations and help achieve customers' requirements.
The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.
Maintain equipment used for testing the quality of systems and products.
Apply and supervise measures and regulations concerning security and safety in order to maintain a safe environment in the workplace.
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.
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 order to make sure that the results can be accurately matched to the original material.
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 level of professionalism when investigating subjects.
Product grader - Which skills are useful but not essential?
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 compliant with environment regulations and best practices.
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.
The steps required through which a material is transformed into a product, its development and full-scale manufacturing.
Define and describe the criteria by which data quality is measured for manufacturing purposes, such as international standards and manufacturing regulations.
Assess the quality of engineered wood looking for flaws, incomplete gluing, and irregularities.
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.
Check and safely operate machines and equipment required for your work according to manuals and instructions.
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.
Check products for quality on the production line and remove defective items before and after packaging.
Monitor and assure the quality of the provided goods or services by overseeing that all the factors of the production meet quality requirements. Supervise product inspection and testing.
Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.
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, closure of non-conformities, methods for tracking documents, etc.
Use equipment to test performance and operation of machinery.
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.
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 order to find defects in and assure quality of a manufactured and a repaired product.
Compose technical customer reports understandable for people without technical background.
Maintain required company records and forms in order to report any defective materials or questionable conditions of manufacturing machinery and equipment.
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.
Read the technical drawings of a product made by the engineer in order to suggest improvements, make models of the product or operate it.
Techniques and methods of estimation and evaluation of system quality and overall database quality, as well as the set quality standards and regulations.
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.
Quality assurance principles, standard requirements, and the set of processes and activities used for measuring, controlling and ensuring the quality of products and processes.
Understand and use technical documentation in the overall technical process.
Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.
Realise possible improvements for processes to increase productivity, improve efficiency, increase quality, and streamline procedures.
Analyse production processes leading toward improvement. Analyse in order to reduce production losses and overall manufacturing costs.
Recomend product modifications and process improvements.