Quality Inspector Tech

Position Summary

With minimum guidance in a team environment, using independent judgement to determine quality and usability, responsible for a wide variety of complex inspection requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate and up‐to‐date acceptance and rejection records and/or certifications systems as required by the applicable specifications.
• Determine acceptance or rejection after inspection and/or calibration of parts.
• Identify defective conditions and test failures and prepare all appropriate documentation and/or calibration history.
• Interpret, evaluate and document inspection results in accordance with approved procedures.
• Perform complete inspections in accordance with the applicable specifications, standards and other contractual documents.
• Work with Suppliers and internal teams to resolve paperwork, documentation, and certification issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Support containment activities for the site, including inspection, segregation, identification, tracking, and disposition support for suspect or nonconforming material.
• Collaborate with production and operations teams to support product flow while ensuring quality requirements are maintained.
• Take ownership of assigned inspections, records, follow-up actions, and quality responsibilities.
• Support nonconformance processes/DMRs, including identification, documentation/writing, containment, and movement of nonconforming material through DMR systems and MRB/RMA/RTV processes.
• Communicate inspection results, quality findings, and documentation discrepancies clearly to operations, engineering, Supplies, production, and other stakeholders.
• Observe all prescribed safety rules and regulations and maintain a FOD free work area.
• Perform other related responsibilities.

Inspection

• Perform inspection on complex incoming parts using a wide variety of measuring and test equipment.
• Adapt and develop complex inspection set‐ups to check sample/PPAP parts, forgings and castings.
• Check tool and jig layouts.
• Use standard inspection tools and equipment such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, thread gauges, optical comparators, and other measurement devices as required.
• Perform first article, source inspections at Supplier Sites, and/or complex surface plate set‐ups as needed.
• Interpret specifications, charts, manuals and other data to arrive at acceptance or rejection.
• Recommend changes to supervision.
• Use mathematics to convert blueprint dimension and tolerances.
• Work within the guidelines of drawings, schematics, blueprints, route sheets, travelers, quality directives, technical engineering specifications, customer's requirements and military standards.
• Help Investigate cause of customer return or site rejects.
• Perform inspections to applicable specifications within assembly, test and shipping departments.

Qualifications

• Five years related hands-on inspection experience or demonstrated ability to perform described responsibilities.
• Preferred experience of CMM operations, background in dimensioning and tolerancing per ANSI Y 14.5.
• Knowledge of applicable military standards may be required.
• Proficient in reading and interpreting blueprints, customer's specifications and internal drawings and procedures.
• Experience in quality inspection, manufacturing, supplier quality, receiving inspection, or a related technical role.
• Thorough knowledge of machine shop mathematics including trigonometry.
• Personal hand tools may be required.
• May be required to lift up to 35 lbs.
• Must demonstrate effective verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills.
• Able to work effectively with others and be a participative team player.