Quality Inspector

Airbus • Kinston, NC

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Airbus Aerosystems Kinston is looking for a Quality Inspector to join their team. The team manufactures crucial aircraft components, and the facility specializes in the production of large, advanced composite aerostructures, including critical components for the Airbus A350 XWB. The role involves ensuring the quality of in-process and completed products through visual inspection and the use of various measuring devices.

Requirements

• Must be willing and able to work any shift.
• Must be willing and able to work overtime.
• Workkeys Assessment completion OR High School Diploma/GED
• Onsite Vision: Daily able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings.
• Hearing: Daily able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms.
• Speaking: Daily able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.
• Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): Daily able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts.
• Carrying: Several times a week able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
• Lifting: Several times a week able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
• Pushing / Pulling: Several times a week able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.
• Sitting: Daily able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer.
• Squatting / Kneeling: Several times a month able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
• Standing: Daily able to stand for discussions in offices or on production floor.
• Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents) and able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces.
• Required PPE includes, but is not limited to Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks. Protective Gloves.
• Walking: able to walk through office and production areas, around flightline and airstrips and sometimes on uneven indoor and/or outdoor surfaces.
• Heights: able to function at heights up to 40 feet.
• Able to operate moving platforms, hydraulic lifts and forklifts.
• Current work authorization.

Nice To Haves

• Cross-training in the Assembly Technician function or functions supported.

Responsibilities

• Uses predetermined methods, operations, setups, and prescribed specifications to visually inspect in-process and completed products, such as electronic units and subsystems, precision electromechanical/mechanical assemblies, and subassemblies, for structural flaws, internal defects, and missing welds.
• Utilizes various measuring devices.
• Accepts or rejects defective or malfunctioning units or systems.
• Works from blueprints, diagrams, dial indicators, preset micrometers, scales, fixtures, customer specifications, drawing or inspection instructions, and checklists.
• May monitor and verify quality in accordance with statistical process or other control procedures.
• Performs line clearances after each lot to ensure all materials from the previous lot have been removed.
• Working from drawings/CATIA, documents, process specifications, quality control requirements, software programs, and test procedures, perform any inspection of parts and assemblies including processes and materials.
• Dimensionally inspect parts or assemblies.
• Initiate and document any non-conforming materials, hardware, software, tools, parts, assemblies or portions thereof, according to specifications, processes and procedures.
• Inspect vendor, subcontractor or company parts and assemblies.
• Follows a pre-determined sequence of own work.
• Prepare and maintain Quality records.
• Support the continuous flow of product within the manufacturing process by cross training and assisting other employees including cross-training in the Assembly Technician function or functions supported.
• Complete other duties and responsibilities as required by leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes
• Retirement savings plan
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
• Paid time off including personal time
• Holidays
• Paid parental leave program
• Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”)
• Other supplemental benefit coverages
• Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University
• Unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses
• Opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes
• National and international mobility
• Relocation assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED