Quality Assurance Supervisor

HEICO; Spokane (WA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k) w/match

PTO

Job summary

Jetseal, Inc. seeks a Quality Assurance Supervisor to lead shop-floor quality activities in Spokane, WA. The role focuses on converting quality priorities into staffing, training, inspection readiness, and timely escalation while protecting customer requirements and delivery commitments.

The supervisor will direct QA leads and inspectors, ensure compliance with drawings and travelers, and coordinate with manufacturing and engineering on priorities, while supporting audits and corrective actions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading shop-floor quality activities.
• Knowledge of quality systems and daily QA operations.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, schedule, and balance inspection resources across shifts and work areas based on production priorities, inspection backlog, employee capability, and customer commitments.
• Lead the Quality Assurance Lead, QA Inspectors I–III, and Quality Technician through selection, onboarding, qualification, cross-training, performance feedback, attendance management, and accountability for results.
• Ensure receiving, first-piece, in-process, final, and special inspections follow approved drawings, specifications, travelers, inspection plans, and customer requirements; review acceptance records and first article documentation before release.
• Serve as the primary shop-floor escalation point for questionable or nonconforming product and coordinate identification, containment, segregation, documentation, and routing through the material review process.
• Support root-cause investigations, corrective and preventive actions, customer escapes, audit findings, and effectiveness verification under the direction of the Quality Manager.
• Ensure personnel are qualified and inspection equipment is available, calibrated, maintained, and used correctly, including hand tools, optical systems, CMMs, and applicable destructive-test equipment.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing and Engineering on inspection priorities, drawing or tolerance questions, process issues, and recurring defects without compromising independent acceptance decisions.
• Monitor and communicate inspection backlog, turnaround time, first-pass yield, rework, nonconformance, training status, and other assigned quality metrics; initiate recovery actions when performance is off plan.
• Lead inspection team communications.
• Support audits and sustainment of AS9100, NADCAP, customer, and internal requirements.
• Provide hands-on technical support for complex or priority inspections when needed while maintaining primary responsibility for supervision, planning, coaching, and control of the inspection function.
• Promptly elevate significant product, process, capacity, personnel, or compliance risks to the Quality Manager with recommended containment or recovery actions.

Tools

CMMs

Job description

The Quality Assurance Supervisor, reporting to the Quality Manager, leads daily inspection and shop-floor quality activities. The position converts quality-system and business priorities into staffing, work assignments, training, inspection readiness, documentation, and timely escalation. The Supervisor provides formal people leadership to the Quality Assurance Lead, QA Inspectors I–III, and Quality Technician and partners across departments to protect product conformity, customer requirements, and delivery commitments.

Essential Functions

• Supervise, schedule, and balance inspection resources across shifts and work areas based on production priorities, inspection backlog, employee capability, and customer commitments.
• Lead the Quality Assurance Lead, QA Inspectors I–III, and Quality Technician through selection, onboarding, qualification, cross-training, performance feedback, attendance management, and accountability for results.
• Ensure receiving, first-piece, in-process, final, and special inspections follow approved drawings, specifications, travelers, inspection plans, and customer requirements; review acceptance records and first article documentation before release.
• Serve as the primary shop-floor escalation point for questionable or nonconforming product and coordinate identification, containment, segregation, documentation, and routing through the material review process.
• Support root-cause investigations, corrective and preventive actions, customer escapes, audit findings, and effectiveness verification under the direction of the Quality Manager.
• Ensure personnel are qualified and inspection equipment is available, calibrated, maintained, and used correctly, including hand tools, optical systems, CMMs, and applicable destructive-test equipment.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing and Engineering on inspection priorities, drawing or tolerance questions, process issues, and recurring defects without compromising independent acceptance decisions.
• Monitor and communicate inspection backlog, turnaround time, first-pass yield, rework, nonconformance, training status, and other assigned quality metrics; initiate recovery actions when performance is off plan.
• Lead inspection team communications.
• Support audits and sustainment of AS9100, NADCAP, customer, and internal requirements.
• Provide hands-on technical support for complex or priority inspections when needed while maintaining primary responsibility for supervision, planning, coaching, and control of the inspection function.
• Promptly elevate significant product, process, capacity, personnel, or compliance risks to the Quality Manager with recommended containment or recovery actions.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits

• Benefits are available for Team Member and eligible family/dependents. Visit www.jetseal.com/careers for a complete listing of benefits and costs.
• Medical*
• Dental*
• Vision*
• 401(k) w/match
• Roth 401(k) w/match
• Flexible spending account (FSA)*
• Dependent flexible spending account*
• Health savings account (HSA) w/company contribution*
• Life insurance*
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Referral program
• Healthy Activity Reimbursement*
• Accident Insurance*
• Critical Illness Insurance*
• Hospital Indemnity Plan*
• Long term disability*
• Covered premiums for State leave plan (WPFMLA)
• Employee assistance program (EAP)*

EEO statement

We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on any protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Jetseal, Inc. makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.