Quality Control

[Buck Parrish]

Does your big commercial electrical company hire a designated quality control person? If so would you require an associates degree in electrical engineering? Or consider many years of expierience?

Does your quality control person meet with general contractors along with foremans and supervisors? Or do they simply reccomend better methods, etc.?
Thanks in advance, any feed back would be helpful.


PS . I can think of some guys on this forum that may be working a dual roll as supervisor and quality control.

 

[hurk27]

Does your big commercial electrical company hire a designated quality control person? If so would you require an associates degree in electrical engineering? Or consider many years of experience?

Does your quality control person meet with general contractors along with Foreman's and supervisors? Or do they simply recommend better methods, etc.?
Thanks in advance, any feed back would be helpful.


PS . I can think of some guys on this forum that may be working a dual roll as supervisor and quality control.

While I did QC and code compliance checking while also looking at waste and material usage and would do write ups on better ways to run the wire/conduit to save cost, also I would look at switch and receptacle placement as for convenience, and stuff like are the chandlers hung at the right hight, are the bathroom bar lights level, stuff like that, walk through with customers or go over the prints to look for ways to give the customer better options that the designer might have missed. stuff like offering wall sconces in stairways instead of ceiling lights that are harder to maintain afterwords, I keep customer maintenance in mind as I feel they shouldn't be made to hire someone to change a lamp or required to pay a small fortune to replace a lamp when a similar fixture is available that uses low cost off the shelf lamps that in many cases give the same or better service for less money

But I don't see a requirement for this person to have a associates degree in electrical engineering, as I think a well seasoned electrician who has experienced all phases of electrical work, who can envision how a lighting install will look before it is even installed will be a much better choice when it comes to laying out a job, and picking out what will work for a job, and know how to make an install work in a cost effective manner.