Aerospace Quality Inspector & Documentation Lead

Innovative Composite Engineering; White Salmon (WA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

401(k) with 5% match

PTO & Sick Time

Job summary

Applied Aerospace and Defense is seeking a Quality Specialist to support daily QA activities, inspections, and documentation across aerospace manufacturing. The role involves hands-on inspection, nonconformance handling, calibration, ECO implementation, and maintaining quality records in AS9100 environments.

The Quality Specialist collaborates with Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, and Program Management to ensure compliance with customer and company quality

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in quality, inspection, manufacturing, aerospace, or a related technical field.
• Experience reading engineering drawings and specifications.
• Working knowledge of dimensional inspection equipment and measurement techniques.
• Ability to interpret customer and manufacturing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Perform and support in-process, receiving, and final inspections as required.
• Review drawings, specifications, purchase orders, routers, and customer requirements to determine inspection requirements.
• Support dimensional inspection using standard inspection equipment and measurement tools.
• Assist with inspection of composite, machined, bonded, and assembled aerospace components.
• Identify, document, and communicate nonconformances and potential quality issues.
• Support inspection activities during production and assist with clearing inspection backlogs.
• Maintain accurate and complete inspection records and objective evidence.
• Review and complete quality documentation, including inspection reports, certificates, travelers, FAIR documentation, and customer-required quality records.
• Prepare and review documentation packets prior to shipment.
• Verify required signatures, inspection results, traceability, and supporting documentation are complete.
• Maintain quality records in accordance with company procedures and AS9100 requirements.
• Support document retention and organization within applicable quality systems and databases.

Skills

Reading drawings

Dimensional inspection

Documentation skills

MS Office

AS9100 knowledge

Inspection equipment

Education

Two-year college degree (technical)

ASQ Certification

Tools

CMM

Faro Arm

Laser tracker

Gaging devices

Job description

Applied Aerospace and Defense is seeking a Quality Specialist to support daily QA activities, inspections, and documentation across aerospace manufacturing. The role involves hands-on inspection, nonconformance handling, calibration, ECO implementation, and maintaining quality records in AS9100 environments.

The Quality Specialist collaborates with Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, and Program Management to ensure compliance with customer and company quality