Aircraft Quality Control Inspector

Amentum•Laredo, TX

About The Position

The Aircraft Quality Control Inspector ensures assigned aircraft are maintained within the specifications of 14 CFR Parts 43, 91, and 125, applicable FAA and DOD regulations, OEM instructions, and CBP directives, and are airworthy before operation. The inspector oversees maintenance, modifications, and repairs across aircraft structures, engines, electrical systems, avionics, and subsystems, applying technical expertise to evaluate equipment installation and operation and interpret technical documentation. The role includes conducting receiving, in-process, final quality, flight-safety, and functional operational inspections and tests; reviewing maintenance records and procedures; approving or rejecting work; analyzing defects and quality trends; and maintaining quality, safety, training, certification, and tool-control records. The inspector coordinates with the Customer Quality Assurance Representative and supports maintenance teams with technical guidance, standard operating procedures, quality and safety plans, and functional check-flight briefings. The inspector monitors safety and maintenance programs, conducts daily work-site safety and foreign-object-damage inspections and weekly FOD walk-downs, and ensures tools, measuring equipment, hazardous materials, and work areas are properly managed. The position requires compliance with work-order timekeeping and applicable DHS/DOD processes, and may involve night shifts, work indoors or outdoors, and periodic domestic travel in support of customer missions.

Requirements

Must be able to obtain and maintain a CBP Background Investigation Suitability clearance; U.S. citizenship is required to obtain the clearance.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Valid Airframe and Power Plant (A&P) License.
Valid FAA Inspection Authorization (IA).
Ability to obtain a government flight-line driver’s license.
Valid United States driver’s license.
Experience and ability to provide technical support to structural/mechanical engineers and customers.
Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize workload to meet aircraft delivery schedules.
Ability to read and interpret data.
Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
Ability to perform frequent lifting, reaching, bending, walking, pulling, sitting, standing, crouching, stooping, kneeling, and stretching for prolonged periods.
Ability to work in cramped, awkward, or strained positions and climb ladders, work platforms, scaffolding, and aircraft structures.
Ability to carry items up to 40 pounds; heavier items require assistance from other workers or weightlifting devices.
Ability to wear cumbersome personal protective equipment for HAZMAT operations.

Responsibilities

Inspect aircraft mechanics’ maintenance, repairs, and modifications to aircraft structures, engines, electrical systems, avionics, and subsystems.
Apply technical knowledge to determine proper equipment installation and operation.
Interpret technical documentation, including blueprints and manufacturers’ manuals, to help resolve complex maintenance problems.
Make entries in aircraft logs and records and provide guidance and technical expertise to lower-level technicians.
Perform receiving, in-process, final quality, flight-safety, and functional operational inspections and tests during aircraft maintenance, modification, and repair.
Approve or reject field-team work for compliance with customer specifications, standards, and technical data.
Review and approve locally developed procedures and solutions for complex repairs.
Analyze defects and interpret quality-control rejection and failure trends.
Monitor safety, training, and certification requirements.
Conduct daily work-site safety and foreign-object-damage inspections using checklists, and perform weekly FOD walk-downs.
Monitor tool-control programs and ensure measuring and test equipment meets calibration requirements.
Maintain quality, safety, training, certification, and tool-control records.
Coordinate with the Customer Quality Assurance Representative on quality matters, mandatory inspection points, and final acceptance inspections.
Inspect forms and records related to aircraft maintenance.
Monitor maintenance programs, including engine oil consumption, logs and records, hydraulic contamination, NDI, electrical static discharge, employee certification, confined-space entry, tool control, FOD, material-control receiving inspections, weight and balance, fall protection, and safety.
Assist with developing and maintaining ground and flight-operation standard operating procedures, quality plans, and safety plans; assist maintenance personnel in briefing and debriefing functional check flights.
Use Government computer systems to access technical references and training requirements.
Document maintenance in accordance with quality-assurance and regulatory requirements and comply with work-order timekeeping procedures.
Maintain cleanliness and use a clean-as-you-go process during maintenance duties.
Maintain situational awareness, remain cognitively focused, and mitigate risks.
Comply with DHS/DOD processes and publications and applicable safety rules and procedures; promptly report accidents, injuries, violations, unsafe practices, and procedures.
Report missing, lost, found, or unattended tools; control, inventory, and inspect tools and report replacement needs to the supervisor.
Clean work areas as needed and properly store hazardous materials; handle hazardous, expired, and waste materials in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Perform weekly break-room and smoking-area cleaning duties.
Travel periodically in support of customer missions.