Quality Inspector

Quality Inspector A
- Contract

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Quality Inspector A
- Contract to join our Quality Team based in Grand Prairie, TX.

The Quality Inspector A is responsible to ensure compliance with Airbus Helicopters Inc. policies, procedures and Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and/or European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations as applicable. This role performs preliminary, hidden damage, in-process and final inspections; performs receiving inspections approving or rejecting incoming materials through established receiving inspection processes while recording quality inspection results; is required to work with inspection tools, aids and devices to resolve tolerances and specification limits;

and is responsible for performing detailed inspections of parts, materials, paint, backshop activities, functional tests, operational test and dimensional inspections to of aircraft, systems and components to determine airworthiness.

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 :

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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 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 in 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
• 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 (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 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 connections, functional or operational tests, adjustments of aircraft radios, navigational systems and flight control systems and instruments 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
• Verification of 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

Documentation: 30%

• Ensure proper tagging, identification and airworthiness of parts…