Quality Inspector

Socket.dev; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

SQA Services is hiring a Quality Inspector Level 2 for Hawthorne, CA. You will perform detailed inspections visually, dimensionally, and with borescopes to ensure components meet engineering drawings and specifications.

Requirements include 3+ years of hands-on inspection experience, ability to read drawings and GD&T, and ITAR compliance. This role offers full-time hours on either first or second shift with on-site work.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on quality inspection experience.
• Ability to read and interpret manufacturing drawings and industry standards.
• Hands on experience with borescopes.
• Proficient in GD&T and validating dimensions.
• Must be ITAR compliant and able to pass a background check.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed inspections—visual, dimensional, and physical—on components, assemblies, and raw materials throughout production phases to verify compliance with engineering drawings and specifications.
• Operate and utilize precision measuring instruments including borescopes to perform inspections on tubes and components.
• Identify and categorize nonconformities and ensure corrective actions or rework have been properly executed.
• Receiving shipping documentation for accuracy, confirming part numbers, serial numbers, change notices, and destination data are correct.

Skills

Reading drawings

GD&T knowledge

Visual inspection

Tools

Borescopes

Job description

For nearly 30 years, SQA Services has been a leading provider of managed supplier quality services, offering audits, assessments, remote surveillance, corrective actions, remediation, inspections, and engineering solutions to manufacturers across all industries. We deliver these services by deploying a network of highly skilled associates based throughout the United States and in over 90 countries worldwide, ensuring rapid on-site support at your supplier locations. Our associates are expert quality assurance professionals with extensive experience and local expertise, enabling us to represent our clients on demand and with greater speed and efficiency than our competitors.

We’re hiring for a Quality Inspector Level 2 position in Hawthorne, CA. This is an opportunity in which you will be supporting either first shift or 2nd shift at full time hours. If you have a passion for mechanical products and a keen eye for quality, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Responsibilities:

• Perform detailed inspections—visual, dimensional, and physical—on components, assemblies, and raw materials throughout various production phases (including in-process, final, and first article) to verify compliance with engineering drawings and specifications.
• Operate and utilize precision measuring instruments such borescopes to do inspections on tubes.
• Apply sharp visual inspection skills to identify workmanship issues and product defects, including damage such as burrs, scratches, loose fasteners, dings, and inadequate edge distances.
• Identify and categorize nonconformities and confirm that corrective actions or rework have beenproperly executed.
• Receiving shipping documentation for accuracy, confirming part numbers, serial numbers, change notices, and destination data are correct.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on quality inspection experience.
• Strong ability to read and interpret manufacturing drawings and industry/commodity standards.
• Hands on experience with borescopes.
• Proficient in GD&T and validating dimensions preferred
• Ability to adapt to new technology and software.
• Excellent visual acuity to detect defects in complex products.
• Must be willing to undergo a background check.
• Must be ITAR compliant.

SQA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is based on merit and qualifications, and is not influenced by race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

This position requires access to ITAR-controlled technical data and/or defense articles.

Must be ITAR compliant.