Quality Inspector A

Airbus Americas; Columbus (MS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

Comprehensive health insurance

Job summary

Airbus Helicopters in Columbus, MS is seeking a Quality Inspector to join our Quality Assurance Team. The role involves performing preliminary, in-process, and final inspections of aircraft components to ensure airworthiness under FAA/EASA regulations.

The incumbent will inspect airframes, parts, and sub-assemblies, document results, and support stock and disposition activities. 4 years of quality inspection experience or 6 years AMT in aviation preferred.

Qualifications

• Ability to interpret technical and regulatory documentation.
• Effective communication in speaking and writing.
• Familiar with inspection tools, aids, and devices to determine tolerances.
• Flexible to work in multiple areas across quality inspection.

Responsibilities

• Perform required technical inspections to receive or reject materials and components.
• Verify fit, form, and function of airframe components per drawings and data.
• Document and tag airworthiness and disposition of non-conforming parts.
• Create and manage SAP records for inspections and QC processes.
• Support continuous improvement within the Quality Department.

Skills

Technical interpretation

Verbal & written communication

Inspection tools familiarity

Multitask in multiple areas

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Inspection tools

Job description

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Quality Inspector to join our Quality Assurance Team in Columbus, MS.

The Quality Inspector A is responsible to ensure compliance with Airbus Helicopters Inc. policies, procedures, and Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and/or European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations as applicable. This role performs preliminary, hidden damage, in-process, and final inspections; performs receiving inspections approving or rejecting incoming materials through established receiving inspection processes while recording quality inspection results; is required to work with inspection tools, aids, and devices to determine tolerances and specification limits; and is responsible for performing detailed inspections of parts, materials, paint, backshop activities, functional tests, operational tests, and dimensional inspections of aircraft, systems, and components to determine airworthiness.

Meet the team:

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity, and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your working environment:

On the eastern border of Mississippi, you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

How we care for you:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan, and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”).
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays, and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”), and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

Your challenges:

Inspection: 60%

• Perform required technical inspections to receive or reject incoming material, airframes, aircraft components, and to detect/report suspected unapproved parts.
• Perform in-process inspections for components in electrical backshop, manufacturing, composites, MRO, and paint shop to judge the serviceability or rejection of manufactured parts, electrical components, and paint.
• Perform detailed inspections of manufactured components such as but not limited to dimensional checks and acoustic tap testing. Inspect aircraft aluminum, titanium, or steel structures for cracks, corrosion, damage, and improper assembly.
• Determine proper shimming and joining of structures with rivets or other hardware in accordance with design drawings, engineering disposition, and other approved data.
• Detect hidden damage during inspections of airframe structures, components, and sub-assemblies that could occur during shipping, receiving, or manufacturing.
• Verify build of aircraft system wiring harnesses, connectors, and electrical terminations as per design drawings.
• Physically and systematically quarantine non-conforming components and assemblies identified during inspections.
• Monitor the use of Measuring and Test Equipment to ensure it is well maintained and current relative to its calibration cycle.
• Perform stock inspections/purges when notified of possible non-conforming/suspected unapproved material.
• Evaluate and disposition sales returns.
• Select product samples and check them using appropriate methods (measuring dimensions, testing functionality, comparing to specifications etc.) to validate conformity to approved drawings and manuals.
• Accomplish in-process and final quality inspections for conformity, maintenance, repair, modification, rework, and overhaul of aircraft components and sub-assemblies.
• Perform conformity inspections for Supplemental Type Certificated (STC) development projects, parts manufacturer approval (PMA) parts, structural and electrical components.
• Inspect multiple airframe components to determine proper fit, form, and function of the components.
• Validate disposition of parts or repaired parts routed to shop floor, from warehouse, internal shops, and suppliers for conformity and serviceability in accordance with approved data.
• Qualify dynamic component parts applying visual inspection and precision measurement methods.
• Observe and validate instrument connections, functional or operational tests, adjustments of aircraft radios, navigational systems, and flight control systems and instruments to ensure they meet required specifications.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable calendar/hourly inspections, life-limited or cycle-limited components, airworthiness directives, and alert service bulletins.
• Verification of testing for emergency locator transmitters (ELT), transponders, altimeters, airspeed indicators, and air data computers in accordance with Title 14 CFR Parts 91, 135, and 43.

Documentation: 30%

• Ensure proper tagging, identification, and airworthiness of parts released to Airframe, Engines, and Accessories.
• Compare quantity, part number, and serial number of items received with procurement data, purchase orders, and other specifications to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Create, distribute, track in SAP and disposition the monthly Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED) report as directed.
• Create QN/NCs for non-conforming material detected and coordinate with Quality Engineers on non-conformity resolution.
• Ensure all materials have required documentation (i.e. 8130-3, EASA Form, Certificate of Conformance).
• Process Goods Receipts during receiving of material.
• Document applicable maintenance actions for airframe, engine, accessories, and components in accordance with FAA and EASA approved regulations and company procedures.
• Research airworthiness directives, service bulletins, and alert service bulletins for applicability to aircraft and/or components.
• Read and validate engineering drawings, reports, and test specifications.
• Properly identify and document items in quality quarantine cage.
• Document and prepare airframe, engine, accessories, or components for return to service after production, maintenance, overhaul, repair, inspection, test, or modification.
• Compose and prepare required delivery documentation in relation to qualifying the airworthiness or return to service of aircraft, engines, parts, components, and systems.

Quality Department Support/Continuous Improvement: 10%

• Apply Airbus Core Values to create an environment for success, set the example, uphold the standard and welcome challenges while maintaining integrity, commitment, confidence, teamwork, customer focus, respect, and reliability.
• Perform routine process audits to ensure necessary training, tooling, and technical data are available for task completion.
• Review quality procedures, processes, documents, and forms used during daily activities for accuracy and completeness.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and FAA & EASA Regulations.
• Support Company events, departmental meetings, special projects, and team meetings.
• Demonstrate creativity by proposing innovations using lean methodologies to ensure that top company objectives (TCOs) are met.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned at management discretion.

Your boarding pass:

Education:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.

Experience:

• 4 years of quality inspection on aircraft components and systems OR 6 years as an aviation maintenance technician (AMT) on aircraft components and systems.

Licensure/Certifications:

• Meet requirements of 14CFR Part 65.101 and be able to obtain a repairmen certificate within 3 months of employment.
• Current/Valid FAA Airframe and Power Plant License.

• Preferred:
• FAA Inspection Authorization (IA).
• FCC 2nd Class License.
• Non Destructive Inspection (NDI) Certificate.

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities:

• Ability to interpret technical and regulatory documentation.
• Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of personnel.
• Familiar with inspection tools, aids, and devices used in determining tolerances and specification limits.
• Have the experience and flexibility to work in multiple areas.

Communication Skills (Spoken, Written, Influencing, Proficiency in Other Languages):

• Must read, write, speak and understand the English language.

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite: 100% unless on business travel.
• Vision: Able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports, and engineering drawings daily. Must have correctable near and far vision if applicable.
• Hearing: Able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and able to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms daily.
• Speaking: Able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications daily.
• Equipment Operation: Able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools daily.
• Carrying: Able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs daily.
• Lifting: Able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs daily.
• Pushing / Pulling: Able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools daily.
• Sitting: Able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on a computer several times a week.
• Squatting / Kneeling: Able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving daily.
• Standing: Able to stand for discussions in offices or on production floor daily.
• Travel: Able to travel independently and at short notice 15% or less yearly.
• Walking: Able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces daily.
• Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site.

Citizenship:

• US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder, or person covered under our existing ITAR license).

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation, and sustainable growth.