Quality Control Inspector, Anybody Have Information About This Career?

[eon90210]

Hello. I am interested in being a quality control inspector as a career. I recently took one of those job placement tests and it said a suitable job for me would be this. It sounds very interesting and exciting to me and I think I would be well suited for it as well. But I don't know much about it. I am wondering if any of you guys are in this career can tell me about your job and what training you needed to get there. I did a search of local schools in Vancouver, B.C. and the closest training I could find for it was at BCIT for "Quality Control Inspector Management Certificate" which is I think not what I want. I am interested in know what the salary ranges are as well. Do I need a B.A.? B.Sc.? Or a certificate. I am guessing this is quite a large field but when I imagine myself in this position, I visualize myself going into like industrial plants and buildings and making sure that all their equipment and products is within the proper range and standards. For example, like testing to make sure their water or other liquid is within acceptable ranges. Please educate me. Currently I am going to a local college and am in my first year of college towards a B.A.

Thanks!

[NorthYorker]

Hello. I am interested in being a quality control inspector as a career. Currently there's a glut of supply on this market, thanks to speedy death of Canadian manufacturing. The country lost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs, and QC inspectors from all those closed plants are flooding the market. The situation is worst in Ontario and Quebec, but whole country from Maritimes to BC is feeling the spillover effect. Salaries are barely crossing minimum-wage line for an ordinary inspectors. So, in immediate perspective, this is a dead-end career. However, taking into account that you're not likely to enter the market in at least 5 years, things might change.