Quality Inspector

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Job Description:

Airbus Aerosystems Kinston is looking for a Quality Inspector to join our team based in Kinston, NC.

Meet the Team:

Our team at Airbus Aerosystems Kinston manufactures crucial aircraft components. On the shop floor you'll be surrounded by individuals who are passionate about aviation and skilled in areas like electrical, structure and quality. Join our team and help build the next generation of aircraft.

Your Working Environment:

The Airbus Aerosystems Kinston facility sits at the forefront of aerospace manufacturing, specializing in the production of large, advanced composite aerostructures. Our team builds critical components for the state-of-the-art Airbus A350 XWB, including the composite center fuselage and wing spar.

How We Care for You:

* Financial Rewards:
Competitive pay, 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 paid parental leave program.

* Health & Welfare:
Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, 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:

* Uses predetermined methods, operations, setups, and prescribed specifications to visually inspect in-process and completed products, such as electronic units and subsystems, precision electromechanical/mechanical assemblies, and subassemblies, for structural flaws, internal defects, and missing welds.

* Utilizes various measuring devices.

* Accepts or rejects defective or malfunctioning units or systems.

* Works from blueprints, diagrams, dial indicators, preset micrometers, scales, fixtures, customer specifications, drawing or inspection instructions, and checklists.

* May monitor and verify quality in accordance with statistical process or other control procedures.

* Performs line clearances after each lot to ensure all materials from the previous lot have been removed.

* The Company will provide appropriate assistance in job training to enable employees to perform all necessary job functions including the following:

* Working from drawings/CATIA, documents, process specifications, quality control requirements, software programs, and test procedures, perform any inspection of parts and assemblies including processes and materials.

* Dimensionally inspect parts or assemblies.

* Initiate and document any non-conforming materials, hardware, software, tools, parts, assemblies or portions thereof, according to specifications, processes and procedures.

* Inspect vendor, subcontractor or company parts and assemblies.

* Follows a pre-determined sequence of own work.

* Prepare and maintain Quality records.

* Support the continuous flow of product within the manufacturing process by cross training and assisting other employees including cross-training in the Assembly Technician function or functions supported.

* In addition, each employee may be asked, on occasion, to complete other duties and responsibilities as required by leadership. Training and certification will be provided for the additional work when required.

Your Boarding Pass:

* Must be willing and able to work any shift.

* Must be willing and able to work overtime.

* Workkeys Assessment completion OR High School Diploma/GED

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