Quality Inspector

Position: Quality Inspector A - (Contract)
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* Job Description:

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* * This position is a temporary (contract) position with no specific time period but could be extended or shortened as needed. Contractors are employed by a 3rd party vendor and placed on assignment to Airbus in America.
* Join the Airbus Helicopters team as a Quality Inspector A, where your technical mastery meets world-class aerospace engineering. You will be responsible for the end-to-end quality lifecycle of our aircraft, ensuring total compliance with FAA and EASA regulations.

* What You’ll Do:

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* * Total Aircraft Inspection:
* Execute detailed inspections across aircraft systems, including dimensional checks, hidden damage assessments, and functional testing.

* * Material Excellence:
* Approve or reject incoming materials, ensuring only the highest quality components enter our production line.

* * Master the Tools:
* Utilize a variety of precision aids and devices to determine specification limits with absolute accuracy.

* * Airworthiness Authority:
* Take ownership of the final "stamp of approval," certifying that our helicopters are safe, compliant, and ready for the sky.

* Meet The Team:
* 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.

* Your Working Environment:
* On the eastern border of Mississippi you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

* Your challenges:
* * Inspection: 60%
* * Perform required technical inspections to receive or reject incoming material, airframes, aircraft components and to 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 but not limited to 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 etc.) 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…