Quality Control Inspector CRO

Quality Control Inspector (CRO)

Purpose:

The Quality Control Inspector is responsible for performing inspections of aircraft, engines, appliances, and aircraft components to ensure maintenance, repair, overhaul, alteration, and inspection activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, approved technical data, customer requirements, and the company’s quality standards.

This position supports safe and compliant operations by identifying discrepancies, verifying workmanship, maintaining accurate inspection documentation, and ensuring maintenance activities are completed in accordance with FAA regulations, company procedures, and customer requirements.

The Quality Control Inspector works closely with the Director of Quality/Chief Inspector and maintenance personnel to perform inspections, verify compliance, and identify quality concerns within the repair station environment.

Responsibilities:

Perform incoming, preliminary, hidden-damage, in-process, and final inspections of aircraft, engines, appliances, components, and related maintenance activities using appropriate precision measuring instruments and approved inspection methods.

Inspect internal and normally inaccessible areas for hidden damage, wear, corrosion, erosion, overheating, contamination, cracking, distortion, improper previous repairs, missing parts, foreign-object damage, or other discrepancies.

Compare inspection findings against the applicable service limits, repair limits, overhaul requirements, and rejection criteria.

Ensure that damage exceeding published repair limits is not repaired without approved or otherwise acceptable technical data, as applicable.

Inspect repaired or replaced features to confirm compliance with approved dimensions, fits, clearances, finishes, torque requirements, and acceptance criteria.

Verify that mandatory replacement items—including seals, packings, gaskets, cotter pins, locking devices, bearings, filters, and other items identified by technical data—are replaced as required.

Verify that required functional, operational, pressure, leakage, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, calibration, or acceptance tests are completed using the procedures and test limits specified in the applicable technical data.

Ensure failed test results are documented and that the component is returned for troubleshooting, corrective action, and repeat testing.

Verify that test adapters, caps, plugs, protective devices, safety devices, and required preservation materials are installed following testing.

Confirm that final test reports are traceable to the component part number, serial number, work order, test equipment, technician, inspector, and date.

Review all inspection records, work orders and forms to ensure maintenance personnel have completed and properly signed off all inspection tasks and cleared all open discrepancies.

Document all teardown and hidden-damage inspection findings in the applicable work order, inspection record, discrepancy report, or component inspection form.

Verify the identity of each article, including nomenclature, manufacturer, part number, serial number, quantity, modification status, and customer work-scope requirements.

Confirm that the customer’s reported discrepancy, reason for removal, maintenance history, and requested work scope are documented.

Ensure that required independent inspections, duplicate inspections, critical-task inspections, and Required Inspection Items are completed by appropriately authorized personnel.

Verify test-equipment configuration, test-medium suitability, environmental conditions, and required test parameters before accepting test results.

Witness functional tests when required by the applicable manual, work instruction, customer requirement, or inspection…