Aviation Quality Control Inspector

Metrea; Temecula (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance options

Dental and vision insurance

Retirement plan eligibility

Enhanced maternity leave

Job summary

Metrea's Air Mobility Group (AIRMOB) seeks experienced inspectors to uphold airworthiness and quality across aircraft maintenance programs. You will perform inspections, document discrepancies, and ensure regulatory compliance with FAA and QMS standards.

The role emphasizes accuracy in records and collaboration with cross-functional teams to sustain mission-ready aircraft. Ideal candidates bring five years of aviation quality experience, strong auditing skills, and knowledge of AS9100/AS9110.

Qualifications

• Five years' experience in aviation administration or quality matters.
• Experience performing internal and external audits.
• Knowledge of QMS (AS9100/AS9110) and aviation quality assurance.

Responsibilities

• Perform aircraft inspections per maintenance program specifications and document findings.
• Ensure all required inspections are completed and properly recorded.
• Review maintenance records for accuracy and compliance with regulations.
• Monitor and audit aircraft work packages for completeness and compliance.

Skills

Aviation quality

Auditing

FAA regulations

Aircraft maintenance

Education

B.A./B.S. degree

Lead auditor training

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia‑Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia‑Pacific.

Group Overview

Air Mobility Group (AIRMOB)

AIRMOB is responsible for developing and delivering Metrea’s aerial refueling (AAR) capabilities, ensuring the readiness and operational effectiveness of the tanker fleet. AIRMOB oversees fleet management, maintenance, and airworthiness, working to sustain and enhance refueling operations. It manages the integration of new processes and technologies, ensuring that tanker aircraft remain mission-ready through effective logistics, maintenance oversight, and regulatory compliance. By coordinating across various teams, AIRMOB ensures the fleet meets both current and future operational needs, supporting a range of specialized air mobility missions.

Position Summary

Inspectors are directly responsible to the Head of Airworthiness for ensuring that all maintenance performed on Company aircraft, engines, appliances, and accessories is accomplished in accordance with approved Aircraft Technical Orders, Company programs, Contract requirements and FAA Regulations to maintain a continuous state of airworthiness. Inspectors ensure that safety is the first consideration in Quality Control and Maintenance Departments.

What You'll Do

• Accomplish aircraft inspections, by the applicable maintenance program specifications, procedures, and criteria to detect and document discrepant or non-airworthy conditions
• Ensure all special inspections are completed and documented correctly in the maintenance records
• Perform required inspections (IPI and/or RII) on items as listed in technical/company manuals and following procedures listed in the GMM/technical data
• Monitors workmanship and materials to verify that the Company, NAVAIR, and FAA rules, regulations, and standards are complied with
• Ensure that aircraft modifications or component changes follow maintenance manual procedures or approved technical data procedures
• Ensure all required inspection items (RII) are completed and documented properly, and Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) have been received, reviewed, and approved before any aircraft modification action
• Perform receiving inspections of newly purchased, repaired, overhauled parts or continued service components and hardware to ensure proper documentation from approved vendors, absence of shipping damage, proper packaging, protection, and airworthiness certification
• Ensure assistance in the classification of repairs and alterations in relation to Major or Minor repairs
• Reviews all maintenance entries in the aircraft maintenance records/MIS, initiating procedural error notices as necessary to correct incomplete or deficient paperwork
• Monitors/audits aircraft inspection reports, log pages, and records for accuracy and completeness of entries before being sent to the Aircraft Records Department
• Conducts routine and unscheduled audits of aircraft work packages, including checks/inspections forms, log pages, routines and non-routines, modification orders, etc., to ensure completion, correctness, and use of appropriate references to approve data in all entries and forms
• Reviews all Deferred and Carry-Over Items
• Monitors the Company Precision Measuring Equipment Program for compliance
• Specific KC-135 experience is highly desirable

What You Bring

Education

B.A./B.S. degree from a four-year college or university in a related field and/or a combination of education and related experience.

• Formal training as a lead auditor

Experience

• Five (5) years’ experience in an aviation administration function dealing with Quality matters
• Experience performing internal & external audits
• Experience in an aviation-centric Quality Management System (QMS)
• Knowledge and experience with the implementation of QMS
• Knowledge of all areas of aircraft QMS, AS9100, and AS9110
• Knowledge of external agencies (including FAA, NTSB, ICAO, EASA, etc.)
• Leading Quality Management Reviews
• Prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership
• Perform internal and external audits
• Demonstrate ability to act as a Quality Ambassador for the organization, both internally and externally
• Manage a Quality program with a focus on continuous improvement
• Graduate from a formal auditor’s course with accreditation
• Understand aviation-related quality assurance programs
• Prior military/contractor aviation support experience
• Specific KC-135 experience is highly desirable

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Must be able to accomplish all duties with little or no assistance
• Must have a good command of the English language, both oral and written

Computer Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio).

Certificates: Must have - FAA A&P Certificate, a valid Driver’s License, and a current US Passport

Benefits

• Medical insurance options
• Dental and vision insurance
• Retirement plan eligibility
• Enhanced maternity leave

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

• The employee must be a US citizen
• The employee must be able to hold and maintain a Secret (or higher) Clearance Level

AAP/EEO Statement

Metrea Strategic Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require.

Work Environment

This job operates within flightline, industrial, and business office locations. This role routinely uses standard office equipment, computers, iPads, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and aircraft inspection devices such as flashlights, magnifying lenses, and cameras.

Travel

Travel requirements may be up to 25% with potential for 45-60 consecutive days working in India.

Base Pay Range

The compensation range shown below is a good faith estimate and reflects the expected base pay for this position upon hire. This is just one component of Metrea's overall approach to total rewards and final compensation decisions, including the ultimate salary or hourly rate agreed upon, may vary depending on factors such as job location, job-specific knowledge, skills, experience, and the overall negotiated compensation package. Eligible full-time employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package designed to support their health, wellbeing, and long-term success.

Pay Range: $50 USD - $52 USD

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.