The ASQ Inspection Division has selected Larsen Manufacturing PPAP Lead Inspector, Jair Velazquez Abundez, as the 2024 Chuck Carter International Inspector of the Year.  Velazquez will be presented his award and duly acknowledged during the Inspection Division’s annual membership meeting on Monday, May 13, 2024, in San Diego, CA, in conjunction with ASQ’s World Conference on Quality and Improvement.

Velazquez has worked at the Larsen Manufacturing Stamping Plant in Mundelein, IL, since 2018.  He had no previous experience as an inspector, but he was a quick and detailed learner.  Beginning as an Incoming Receiving Inspector, Velazquez has since been promoted to Quality Lab Inspector Leve 2 (2019), PPAP Lead Coordinator Level 3 (2021), and finally to Jr. Quality Engineer in 2022.