Quality Inspector

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Quality Inspector A to join our Quality team in Grand Prairie, TX. The role ensures compliance with Airbus Helicopters Inc. policies, procedures, and FAA/EASA regulations. Key duties include preliminary, hidden damage, in-process, and final inspections; receiving inspections; and detailed inspections of parts, materials, paint, backshop activities, functional/operational tests, and dimensional inspections to determine airworthiness.

• 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
• Perform detailed inspections of manufactured components such as dimensional checks and acoustic tap testing
• Inspect aircraft aluminum, titanium or steel structures for cracks, corrosion, damage and improper assembly
• Resolve accurate shimming and joining of structures with rivets or other hardware per design drawings and engineering disposition
• 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
• Supervise 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 advised of possible non-conforming/suspected unapproved material
• Evaluate and disposition sales returns
• Select product samples and check them using appropriate methods 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 using visual inspection and precision measurement methods
• Observe and validate instrument connections, functional or operational tests, adjustments of aircraft radios, navigational systems and flight control systems to ensure they meet required specifications
• Ensure compliance with all applicable calendar/hourly inspections, life limited or cycle limited components, airworthiness directives and alert service bulletins
• Verify testing for emergency locator transmitters (ELT), transponders, altimeters, airspeed indicators and air data computers in accordance with Title 14 CFR Parts 91, 135 and 43

• Ensure proper tagging, identification and airworthiness of parts released to Airframe, Engines, and Accessories
• Compare quantity, part number, and serial number of items received with procurement data, purchase orders and other specifications to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Create, distribute, track in SAP and disposition the monthly Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED) report as directed
• Create NCM’s for non-conforming material detected and coordinate with Quality Engineers on non-conformity resolution
• Ensure all materials have required documentation (e.g., 8130-3, EASA Form, Certificate of Conformance)
• Process Goods Receipts during receiving of material
• Document applicable maintenance actions for airframe, engine, accessories and components in accordance with FAA and EASA approved regulations and company procedures
• Research airworthiness directives, service bulletins, and alert service bulletins for applicability to aircraft and/or components
• Read and validate engineering drawings, reports, and test…