Quality Inspector IV

Job Summary

Voyager Technologies is a is an aerospace engineering company specializing in C4

ISR Systems, Aeronautics & Propulsion, and Engineering Services & Consulting. At Voyager our mission is to provide the most advanced and innovative solutions to the complex problems found in Department of Defense weapon systems. We approach these problems using a “mission- focused”, “customer first” engineering approach.

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. They will do this by:

• identifying and incorporating appropriate inspection methods and tools into both internal and supplier work instructions and inspection processes required to ensure accurate results
• using those methods and tools to inspect and verify compliance with defined pass-fail criteria to include use of manual and CAI equipment
• programming inspection equipment (e.g., coordinate measuring machine (CMM), etc.)
• collaborating with suppliers and design engineering to develop product designs that mitigate potential defect sources
• collaborating with supplier and manufacturing engineering to mitigate potential process defects
• leading root cause, corrective and preventive action investigations/ decisions/ validations, actions, integration tasks

Performance of the Supplier Quality Inspector role is inclusive of tasks identified below, with minimal supervision.

• Program, setup 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
• 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

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Experience:

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
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills (spoken and written) to interact with suppliers, program teams, company management, business partners, and customers
• 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
• U.S. Citizenship, U.S. Permanent Residency, or other status as a U.S. Person as defined by 8 USC
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