Quality Assurance Inspector (m/f/d/x)

Bring Quality, Safety, and Sustainability to Life

Join a global community of 46,000 colleagues dedicated to continuously improving the safety, quality, and sustainability of products. Through our services, we support clients across a wide range of industries in more than 1,000 laboratories worldwide. Intertek Government and Trade Services helps governments, customs authorities, and standards organizations ensure that imported goods meet international safety and quality standards. We help protect the public and the environment from non-compliant products, secure import duties, and ensure smooth customs clearance and international trade.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Inspector to join our team in German-speaking Switzerland on a 20–40% basis. This position is offered on a self-employed, independent contractor basis with compensation at an hourly rate.

Your Responsibilities

• Conducting visual quality inspections of goods, materials, and shipments to identify defects, damage, or deviations
• Taking product samples in accordance with specified inspection requirements
• Verifying quantities, batches, and piece counts based on the provided documentation
• Documenting inspection results using specified checklists and creating comprehensive photographic documentation
• Conducting inspections at suppliers’, customers’, or transit locations within the assigned region
• Ensuring compliance with internal quality, safety, and inspection standards

Your Profile

• Education or degree in a science-related field (e.g., chemistry, biology, or a comparable discipline)
• Valid driver’s license and willingness to undertake regular regional business trips
• Excellent written and spoken German and English skills
• Good IT user skills
• Strong observational skills, high attention to detail, and an independent and structured approach to work
• High commitment to quality, a strong sense of responsibility, and integrity

Your Benefits

• Our open corporate culture with flat hierarchies offers plenty of room for your ideas
• You’ll work in a dynamic team as part of an international company
• With flexible flex time, annual work hours, we prioritize work-life balance and the ability to balance family and career
• We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity
• We value differences, actively promote inclusion, and create an environment that fosters each person’s individuality in the best interest of the company