Quality Specialist

Job Description

Immediate Great Opportunity

Quality Specialist (Customer/Supplier Quality) – Aerospace

Temp-to-Hire Opportunity | Starting at $36.00/Hour | $3,500 Annual Bonus Eligibility

Join a company where quality drives innovation and excellent benefits are offered.

Are you an experienced Quality professional who thrives in a fast-paced aerospace manufacturing environment? Do you enjoy solving complex problems, working directly with customers and suppliers, and making a measurable impact on product quality?

We're looking for a Quality Specialist to join our growing team in a Temp-to-Hire opportunity with excellent long-term career potential. If you're passionate about quality systems, inspections, audits, and continuous improvement, we want to hear from you!

Why You'll Love This Opportunity

• Starting Pay:$36.00 per hour
• Temp-to-Hire with long-term career growth
• $1.00/hour increase upon successful conversion to a direct employee
• Eligible for a $3,500 annual performance bonus after conversion
• Comprehensive benefits package available upon conversion
• Stable Monday-Friday schedule with a 40-hour work week
• Opportunity to work with a respected aerospace manufacturer where your expertise directly impacts customer satisfaction and product excellence

Schedule

Full-Time
Monday-Friday (36-hour work week)

Choose the schedule that works best for you:

• 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM
• 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Position Summary

As a Quality Specialist, you'll play a critical role in ensuring world-class quality standards throughout our aerospace manufacturing operations. You'll serve as the primary liaison between customers, suppliers, and internal teams to investigate quality concerns, perform inspections, support audits, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys problem-solving, working independently, and making a direct impact on product quality and customer satisfaction.

What You'll Be Doing

Customer & Supplier Quality

• Manage customer quality claims and inquiries through customer portals, ensuring timely responses and resolutions.
• Investigate customer returns, rejections, waivers, DPPM issues, and nonconforming products.
• Interpret customer quality requirements, engineering specifications, and contractual flow-down requirements.
• Collaborate with customers and suppliers to resolve quality issues and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate containment activities and disposition of nonconforming materials.
• Maintain customer scorecards, DPPM metrics, and quality performance reporting.
• Process RMAs and customer rejection documentation.
• Develop and maintain customer-specific quality procedures and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Inspection & Quality Assurance

• Perform First Article Inspections (FAIs) in accordance with AS9102 requirements.
• Interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, GD&T, and customer specifications.
• Perform detailed inspections using precision measuring equipment including:
• • Micrometers
  • Calipers
  • Height gauges
  • Optical comparators
  • Additional precision inspection tools
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations.
• Develop and implement Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).
• Process and close quality notifications and customer claims.
• Generate quality metrics and reports including rejection rates, DPPM, audit findings, and corrective action status.
• Support final inspection activities as needed.

Quality Systems & Compliance

• Coordinate customer, supplier, and third-party audits.
• Develop corrective action plans and ensure timely completion.
• Maintain compliance with:
• • AS9100
  • ISO 9001
  • SAE AS5553
  • SAE AS6174
  • Customer-specific quality requirements
• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve quality issues and improve processes.
• Lead supplier…