Quality Specialist

This range is provided by Hermeus. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$30.00/hr - $50.00/hr

Hermeus is a high‑speed aircraft manufacturer focused on the rapid design, build, and test of high‑Mach and hypersonic aircraft for the national interest. Working directly with the Department of Defense, Hermeus delivers capabilities that will ensure that our nation, and our allies, maintain an asymmetric advantage over any and all potential adversaries.

The Manufacturing Team at Hermeus are the boots on the ground. We have a vast array of experiences ranging from welding, additive manufacturing, tube bending, machining, integration, and avionics. We are a lean team who are responsible for building a vehicle that will fly. We provide crucial design feedback to our engineering team and can rapidly iterate on design and assembly.

As a Quality Specialist, you will play a critical role in the inspection, validation, and conformity control of supersonic and hypersonic vehicles  will leverage a unique attention to detail and critical thinking to identify systemic issues and collaborate with operations and engineering to implement sustaining corrective actions. Through experience and analytics, you’ll help guide quality policies and improve upon the inspection methods within the business.

You will be an objective‑oriented team player and challenge yourself every day to make improvements that increase the safety, reliability, and rate of next‑generation aircraft manufacturing.

• Inspect component‑level and integrated Hermeus components to ensure they meet process specifications, print requirements, and quality standards and assist in the development of inspection procedures and criteria
• Document inspection results, including measurements, observations, and any identified issues leveraging an MES system
• Communicate with internal customers and suppliers to resolve inspection discrepancies, documentation issues, and other potential nonconformities to prevent material escapes
• Resolve nonconformance and documentation issues, support Quality Management System policies and procedure documentation, assess compliance to company and industry standards, and participate in continual improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to address quality concerns and implement corrective actions with a unique opportunity to influence production process improvements and correct systemic design issues
• Stay updated with industry standards and regulatory requirements relevant to aerospace quality inspections and policies

• High school diploma, associate degree, or equivalent certificate
• 3+ years of experience in quality inspection in Aerospace or 5+ years of experience of quality inspection in another manufacturing field
• Ability to work overtime and weekends as needed
• Ability to lift 50 lbs unassisted
• Strong knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stack ups
• Strong communication skills and ability to read and provide feedback on technical documents

• Experience in a startup development environment
• Experience working with laser tracking set‑up and software
• Experience working in a flight development program
• Experience with optical comparators and laser scanning
• Experience with CMM (not required for the role)

The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. US persons include U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.

Hermeus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions at Hermeus are based solely on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other…