NDT Quality Inspection Specialist

NDT Quality Inspection Specialist

Ready to play a vital role in keeping aircraft in the sky safely? Airbus Helicopters, Inc. is seeking a detail-oriented NDT Quality Inspection Specialist to join our Quality Assurance team. In this high-impact role, you will serve as a critical defense line for flight safety, performing Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) to inspect, evaluate, and certify structural components and sub-assemblies.

Your working environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

How we care for you:

• Financial Rewards:
  Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
• Work/Life Balance:
  Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare:
  Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan ("EAP") and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development:
  Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

Your Challenges:

Part Processing: 40%

• Application of the NDT methods allowing inspection and/or certification of parts health concerning cracks.
• Understand and implement the work instructions in the methods, which they are qualified according to approved written instructions (Inspection Document (DI), technical sheet (FT), Work Card (CT), Inspection process sheet, etc.).
• Treat the parts, detail the results
• Carry out any preparation vital of the parts before or after test according to work instructions
• Carry out interpretations and evaluations of specific product or product type for acceptance or rejection, while following an approved instruction.
• Ensure areas to be inspected, the position of check phases and associated documents for the preparation of instruction files (DI), Technical Sheets (FT) and/or Work Cards (CT).

Qualification of the room and equipment: 30%

• Maintain NDT equipment
• Collection of reference specimens
• Perform concentration checks
• Perform contamination checks

Count & Surface Preparation of Parts: 20%

• Validate inclusion of parts required to be processed
• Degrease all parts by detergent wash and Ultrasonic
• Water rinse all parts with Ultrasonic

4. Documentation: 10%

• Complete maintenance records
• Certify pass/fail for inspection of all parts
• Update SAP labor tracking

Your Boarding Pass: (Required for consideration)

• Possess a High School Diploma or equivalent experience
• Have two (2) or more years of proven experience doing NDT testing in at least one NDT method or 4 years as certificated aviation maintenance technician (AMT) on aircraft components systems
• A&P license in addition to required licenses/certifications or able to obtain a repairman certificate within 3 months of employment
• Be qualified to advise and perform inspections in the method required.
• Ability to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Level III that they are familiar with and can perform the applicable examinations using suitable calibration blocks and written procedures prepared for examination of articles within the first 90 days.
• Have the ability to apply detailed techniques to products or parts within the barrier of the qualifications requirements.
• Ability to read and understand technical and regulatory documentation.
• Must know the applications and limits of various NDT methods used to locate defects in aircraft structure and components.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office or G Suite

Travel Required:

• 5% Domestic and International

Citizenship:

• Authorized to Work in the US

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite: 95%, Grand Prairie, TX
• Vision:
  Able to pass an examination to ensure near vision of at least one eye, either corrected or uncorrected, such that the individual can read Snellen equivalent of 20/25 (Jaeger #1). The examination must be on a periodic basis, not to exceed 1 year.
• Able to distinguish and differentiate between colors necessary for the inspection method for which qualification is sought. Color vision testing need only be accomplished one time, usually at the initial vision examination.
• Able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings (daily)
• Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on…