Quality Inspector IV

Voyager is an innovative defense, national security and space technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission‑critical solutions. We tackle the most complex challenges to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets to lead in the race for technological and operational superiority from ground to space.

Working with Voyager means you will be engaging with industry pioneers at a small company that is making big things happen. Voyager seeks positive, innovative, accountable leaders with a business and customer focused mindset. Voyager is seeking a Quality Inspector to support a Department of Defense program.

Under the direction of the Director of Quality, this candidate will serve as the primary production inspector with occasional supplier quality engineering support being required. The successful candidate will perform receiving, production floor and supplier component inspections using tools ranging from manual floor inspection tools (e.g., micrometers, calipers, visual, go/no‑go gauges, etc.) to computer aided inspection (CAI) methods (e.g., laser scanning, etc.).

These inspections may include source inspections at supplier facilities.

This candidate will utilize Quality Engineering methods to work with internal manufacturing engineers and suppliers to create and flow down inspection requirements, verify compliance with those requirements, drive corrective actions and ensure continuous improvement with the overall goal of ensuring internal manufacturing and supplier compliance with contractual and technical requirements.

• Program, set up and operate CAI, CMM, Keyence and other inspection equipment.
• Use design data to perform first‑article, in‑process & final inspections of supplier “Buy” & internal “Make” items.
• Provide feedback to engineers and suppliers using resultant inspection data.
• Document non‑conformance reports as required and provide inspection time estimates.
• Conduct process and product evaluations and assessments to include inspection cycle‑time reductions.
• Maintain configuration control of files and job records.
• Support Hardware Acceptance Reviews (HARs).
• Safely work within an industrial environment.
• Support appropriate flow down of program quality requirements to suppliers.
• Support and conduct supplier source surveillance and inspections.
• Review and ensure successful supplier First Article Inspection Reports (FAIR).
• Manage business processes to measure and improve quality performance and update/improve departmental procedures as required.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Lead root‑cause, corrective and preventive action investigations, decisions and validations.

Required:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of quality inspection experience which includes five (5) years of CMM or other computer aided inspection.
• Experience supporting Quality for Department of Defense (DoD) programs for the U.S. Government.
• Experience across various NC tracking systems to include TIP QA or similar tools.
• Experience partnering with program managers, program quality engineers, supplier quality engineers, program planners/schedulers, control account managers and other program team members to achieve program objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills (both spoken and written) to include communications with suppliers, program teams, company management, business partners, and customers.
• Unless otherwise stated in the requirements section of an individual job description, our positions require U.S. Citizenship, U.S. Permanent Residency, or other status as a U.S. Person as defined by 8 USC
  1324b(a)(3).

Preferred:

• Experience working Missile Defense Agency programs with MAP/PMAP requirements.
• Experience with AS9100 and DCMA standards.
• Demonstrated expertise in lean and six sigma principles.

• Required:
  
  Associate’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) field, or equivalent experience.
• Preferred:
  Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) field.

$90,000 - $115,000 USD

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