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Flight Inspection
Bring your experience and ideas and leverage shop floor supervision through extensive knowledge, experience, and leadership abilities. The Lead Inspector Flight position assumes a leadership role for an assigned work area, be it a fixture, aircraft, or facility.
What you’ll be doing as a Lead Flight Inspector
- Executing supervisor’s work plan for each manufacturing day
- Providing direction to Inspection crew in developing work assignments
- Planning priority work sequence
- Resolution of daily problems inhibiting assembly efforts
- Assisting with technical instruction
- Completion of paperwork as required
- Maintaining close coordination with the Supervisor regarding status of aircraft/item in work
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of policies and procedures for facility and work area
- Operates special kinds of testing instruments and equipment as required.
- Directly responsible for complete and final inspection of each aircraft for safe and proper functioning and subsequent flight tests.
- Prepares flight inspection reports and all other necessary data for complete and final inspection prior to customer acceptance and final delivery.
- Approves acceptable work or rejects all work which fails to meet required standards and recommends corrective action to prevent recurrence.
- Rechecks when corrective measures have been completed.
- In all cases inspectors must have had additional training and experience required to handle the more difficult and complicated phases of inspection work.
- Used inspector tools and equipment e.g. hand and marking tools, electricians and/or mechanics hand tools, precision measuring instruments, devices and equipment, and a variety of specialized equipment and alignment instruments.
- May aid, guide or assist quality policy designees in an advisory capacity in proper inspection methods and procedures and may check their work for accuracy and acceptability.
- Inspectors are required to adhere to and follow the Quality Inspection Manual Process, Amarillo Stamp Awareness Guidelines, and other related policies, procedures and processes.
Skills You Bring To this Role
- Knowledge of precision measuring instruments and special alignments.
- Knowledge of electricians and/or mechanics tools.
- Ability to prioritize work, strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a team player mindset.
- Excellent communicator, must be able to build and maintain effective relationships with customers, internal and external suppliers, and brief leaders/customers.
