With minimum guidance in a team environment, using independent judgement to determine quality and usability, responsible for a wide variety of complex inspection requirements.
Maintain accurate and up‐to‐date acceptance and rejection records and/or certifications systems as required by the applicable specifications.
Determine acceptance or rejection after inspection and/or calibration of parts, tools, instruments or x‐ray film.
Identify defective conditions and test failures and prepare all appropriate documentation and/or calibration history.
Perform inspection on complex parts using a wide variety of measuring and test equipment.
Adapt and develop complex inspection set‐ups to check sample parts, forgings and castings.
Check tool and jig layouts.
Perform first article and envelope inspections, source inspections, and/or complex surface plate set‐ups.
Interpret specifications, charts, manuals and other data to arrive at acceptance or rejection.
Recommend changes to supervision.
Use mathematics to convert blueprint dimension and tolerances.
Work within the guidelines of drawings, schematics, blueprints, route sheets, travelers, quality directives, technical engineering specifications, customer's requirements and military standards.
Layout all component part characteristics onto rough or semi‐machined castings, forgings and machine parts to maintain control of machining cycle during manufacturing.
Make own gaging set‐ups on surface plate using block, parallels, clamps, sine plates and V‐blocks to take readings with precision measuring instruments.
Adapt inspection equipment to check standard, non‐standard and special products.
Investigate cause of customer return failures.
Perform inspections to applicable specifications within assembly, test and shipping departments.
Assist customer/government source inspectors as necessary.
Required experience in CMM operations, background in dimensioning and tolerancing per ANSI Y 14.5.
Proficient in reading and interpreting blueprints, customer's specifications and internal drawings and procedures.
Thorough knowledge of machine shop mathematics including trigonometry.
Knowledge of electro‐hydraulic servo systems and the computer IEEE systems.
Personal hand tools may be required.
May be required to lift up to 50 lbs.
Must demonstrate effective verbal, written and communication skills.
Ability to work effectively with others and be a participative team player.