Quality Inspector

Job Description

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Quality Inspector to join our Quality Assurance Team in Columbus, MS. This position is a temporary (contract) role with no specific time period, but may be extended or shortened as needed. Contractors are employed by a third‑party vendor and placed on assignment to Airbus. Expected start date is early January, 2026.

The Quality Inspector A is responsible for ensuring compliance with Airbus Helicopters Inc. policies, procedures, and Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and/or European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations. The role includes preliminary, hidden damage, in‑process, and final inspections; receiving inspections to approve or reject incoming materials; use of inspection tools, aids, and devices to determine tolerances and specification limits; and detailed inspections of parts, materials, paint, back‑shop activities, functional and operational tests, dimensional inspections, and aircraft system components.

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.

Columbus, MS is the eastern border of Mississippi and the home of our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and North America Center of Excellence. We produce the UH‑72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army and the H‑125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

• Individual Development:
  Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including access to 10,000+ e‑learning courses and accelerated development programmes with national and international mobility.

• Perform required technical inspections to receive or reject incoming material, airframes, aircraft components, and detect/report suspected unapproved parts.
• Perform in‑process inspections for components in electrical backshops, 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 dimensional checks and acoustic tap testing.
• Inspect aircraft aluminium, 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) 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…