Quality Inspector A - Contract

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Job Description:

This position is a temporary (contract) position with no specific time period but could be extended or shortened as needed. Contractors are employed by a 3rd party vendor and placed on assignment to Airbus in America.

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Quality Inspector A - Contract to join our Quality Team based in Grand Prairie, TX.

The Quality Inspector A is responsible for ensuring compliance with Airbus Helicopters Inc. policies, procedures, and Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and/or European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations as applicable. This role performs preliminary, hidden damage, in-process, and final inspections; performs receiving inspections approving or rejecting incoming materials through established receiving inspection processes while recording quality inspection results; is required to work with inspection tools, aids, and devices to resolve tolerances and specification limits; and is responsible for performing detailed inspections of parts, materials, paint, backshop activities, functional tests, operational tests, and dimensional inspections to determine airworthiness of aircraft, systems, and components.

Your Working Environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

Your Challenges:

Inspection: 60%

• Perform required technical inspections to receive or reject incoming material, airframes, aircraft components, and to detect/report suspected unapproved parts.
• Perform in-process inspections for components in electrical backshops, manufacturing, composites, MRO, and paint shop to judge the serviceability or rejection of manufactured parts, electrical components, and paint.
• Perform detailed inspections of manufactured components such as dimensional checks and acoustic tap testing.
• Inspect aircraft aluminum, titanium, or steel structures for cracks, corrosion, damage, and improper assembly.
• Resolve accurate shimming and joining of structures with rivets or other hardware in design drawings, engineering disposition, and other approved data.
• Detect hidden damage during inspections of airframe structures, components, and sub-assemblies that could occur during shipping, receiving, or manufacturing.
• Verify build of aircraft system wiring harnesses, connectors, and electrical terminations as per design drawings.
• Physically and systematically quarantine non-conforming components and assemblies identified during inspections.
• Supervise the use of Measuring and Test Equipment to ensure it is well maintained and current relative to its calibration cycle.
• Perform stock inspections/purges when advised of possible non-conforming/suspected unapproved material.
• Evaluate and disposition sales returns.
• Select product samples and check them using appropriate methods (measuring dimensions, testing functionality, comparing to specifications, etc.) to validate conformity to approved drawings and manuals.
• Accomplish in-process and final quality inspections for conformity, maintenance, repair, modification, rework, and overhaul of aircraft components and sub-assemblies.
• Perform conformity inspections for Supplemental Type Certificated (STC) development projects, parts manufacturer approval (PMA) parts, structural and electrical components.
• Inspect multiple airframe components to determine proper fit, form, and function of the components.
• Validate disposition of parts or repaired parts routed to the shop floor, from the warehouse, internal shops, and suppliers for conformity and serviceability in accordance with approved data.
• Qualify dynamic component parts applying visual inspection and precision measurement methods.
• Observe and validate instrument connections, functional or operational tests, adjustments of aircraft radios, navigational systems, and flight control systems and instruments to ensure they meet required specifications.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable calendar/hourly inspections, life-limited or cycle-limited components, airworthiness directives, and alert service bulletins.
• Verification of testing for emergency locator transmitters (ELT), transponders, altimeters, airspeed indicators, and air data computers in accordance with Title 14 CFR Parts 91, 135, and 43.

Documentation: 30%

• Ensure proper tagging, identification, and airworthiness of parts released to airframe, engines, and accessories.
• Compare quantity, part number, and serial number of items received with procurement data, purchase orders, and other specifications to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Create, distribute, track in SAP, and disposition the monthly Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED) report as directed.
• Create NCM’s for non-conforming material detected and coordinate with Quality Engineers on non-conformity resolution.
• Ensure all materials have the required documentation (i.e., 8130-3, EASA Form, Certificate of Conformance).
• Process Goods Receipts during the receiving of material.
• Document applicable maintenance actions for airframe, engine, accessories, and components in accordance with FAA and EASA approved regulations and company procedures.
• Research airworthiness directives, service bulletins, and alert service bulletins for applicability to aircraft and/or components.
• Read and validate engineering drawings, reports, and test specifications.
• Properly identify and document items in the quality quarantine cage.
• Document and prepare airframe, engine, accessories, or components for return to service after production, maintenance, overhaul, repair, inspection, test, or modification.
• Compose and prepare required delivery documentation in relation to qualifying the airworthiness or return to service of aircraft, engines, parts, components, and systems.

Quality Department Support/Continuous Improvement: 10%

• Apply Airbus Core Values to create an environment for success, set the example, uphold the standard, and welcome challenges while maintaining integrity, commitment, confidence, teamwork, customer focus, respect, and reliability.
• Perform routine process audits to ensure necessary training, tooling, and technical data are available for task completion.
• Review quality procedures, processes, documents, and forms used during daily activities for accuracy and completeness.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and FAA & EASA Regulations.
• Support Company events, departmental meetings, special projects, and team meetings.
• Demonstrate creativity by proposing innovations using lean methodologies to ensure that top company objectives (TCOs) are met.

Your Boarding Pass:

Education:

Required

• High School Diploma or equivalent.

Preferred

• Associates Degree or equivalent experience in Aviation or related industry.

Experience:

Required

• 4 years of quality inspection on aircraft components and systems or 6 years as a certificated aviation maintenance technician (AMT) on aircraft components systems.

Preferred

• Minimum 6 years or equivalent diversified experience on Airbus Helicopters products as either a certificated AMT or quality inspector.

Licensure/Certifications:

Required

• A&P license in addition to required licenses/certifications.

Preferred

• FAA Inspection Authorization (IA).
• FCC 2nd Class License.
• Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) Certificate.

Travel Required:

• 15% Domestic and International.

Citizenship:

• US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder, or person covered under our existing ITAR license).

Clearance:

• None.

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite: 100% unless on business travel.
• Vision: Able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens; must have correctable near and far vision if applicable.
• Hearing: Able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone.
• Speaking: Able to deliver information and participate in meetings daily.
• Equipment Operation: Able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools daily.
• Carrying: Able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs daily.
• Lifting: Able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs daily.
• Pushing/Pulling: Able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment/tools daily.
• Sitting: Able to sit for long periods of time in meetings and while working on a computer several times a week.
• Squatting/Kneeling: Able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving daily.
• Standing: Able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor daily.
• Travel: Able to travel independently and at short notice 15% or less yearly.
• Walking: Able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces daily.
• Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site.

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Equal Opportunity:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.

As a leader in our field, Airbus Helicopters, Inc. provides relocation assistance for qualified positions and a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.

As a matter of policy, Airbus Helicopters, Inc. does not sponsor visas for US positions unless specified. Only applicants with current work authorization will be considered.

Airbus Helicopters, Inc. does not offer tenured or guaranteed employment. Employment with Airbus is at will, meaning either the company or the employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice.

NOTE: Airbus Helicopters, Inc. reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises. This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation, and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Helicopters, Inc.

Employment Type:

Agency / Temporary

Experience Level:

Professional

Remote Type:

On-site

Job Family:

Quality Inspection