Aerospace Quality Inspection Lead

Castelion Corporation; New Mexico; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Castelion is seeking a Quality Inspection Manager to lead our inspection organization across receiving, in-process, and final inspection activities for mechanical, dimensional, avionics, and electrical hardware.

This role will be responsible for building and maintaining effective inspection operations, developing inspectors and quality specialists, and ensuring product quality through strong inspection methods, documentation, and process discipline.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quality inspection, manufacturing quality, or a related role within aerospace, defense, or high-precision manufacturing.
• Experience leading inspectors, quality specialists, or technical teams in a production environment.
• Experience with nonconformance reporting, corrective actions, and inspection documentation.
• Ability to collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders in a startup environment to develop efficient and effective inspection processes.
• Ability to instill risk based critical thinking into the culture of the inspection organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and support a team of quality inspectors and specialists across multiple inspection disciplines, technical disciplines, and product resource areas.
• Set daily and longer‑term priorities for inspection activities, balancing receiving, in‑process, final, and first article inspection needs.
• Provide coaching, performance feedback, training, and day‑to‑day direction to inspection personnel.
• Partner with manufacturing, planning, and quality leadership to align inspection coverage with production priorities and critical hardware flow.
• Establish clear ownership, escalation paths, and communication routines for inspection‑related issues and constraints.
• Support development and implementation of inspection processes, standards, and documentation aligned with product requirements and quality system expectations.
• Ensure inspection methods align with engineering intent, manufacturability, and rate‑ready production needs.
• Drive standardization of inspection practices across mechanical, dimensional, and avionics/electrical work areas where appropriate.
• Support introduction and effective use of inspection tools, fixtures, gages, and software systems.
• Oversee receiving, in‑process, and final inspection of machined parts, mechanical assemblies, avionics hardware, harnessing, cable assemblies, and electro‑mechanical components.
• Ensure inspections are performed to engineering drawings, GD&T, specifications, IPC requirements, internal workmanship standards, and acceptance criteria as applicable.
• Support dimensional inspection capability including coordination with CMM programming and traditional metrology resources.
• Ensure inspection activities properly verify traceability, certifications, configuration, workmanship, and documentation completeness.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing to resolve inspection questions quickly and accurately.
• Ensure quality findings, nonconformances, and escapes are clearly documented in the appropriate systems.
• Work cross‑functionally with manufacturing and engineering to support timely resolution of inspection‑related issues without compromising quality standards.
• Support root cause investigations and corrective and preventive actions related to inspection findings, workmanship issues, and recurring defects.
• Ensure lessons learned from inspection and nonconformance activity are translated into better inspection methods, documentation, training, and process controls.

Skills

Team leadership

Inspection processes

Quality documentation

AS9100 familiarity

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

CMM programming

Metrology equipment

Inspection software

Job description

Castelion is seeking a Quality Inspection Manager to lead our inspection organization across receiving, in-process, and final inspection activities for mechanical, dimensional, avionics, and electrical hardware.

This role will be responsible for building and maintaining effective inspection operations, developing inspectors and quality specialists, and ensuring product quality through strong inspection methods, documentation, and process discipline.