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Consulting, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain Management

Aerospace Quality Inspector

El Segundo, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 16 days ago

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Required skills

  • borescopes
  • ITAR compliant
  • background check
  • visual acuity
  • manufacturing drawings
  • nonconformities
  • corrective actions
  • rework
  • shipping documentation
  • part numbers

Nice to have

  • GD&T
  • validating dimensions

Role summary

SQA Services is seeking a Quality Inspector Level 2 in El Segundo, CA. This role supports first shift, full-time hours and requires a passion for mechanical products and a keen eye for quality. Responsibilities include identifying workmanship issues and product defects, categorizing nonconformities, confirming corrective actions, and verifying shipping documentation accuracy. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of hands-on quality inspection experience, the ability to read manufacturing drawings, and experience with borescopes. Proficiency in GD&T is preferred. The role also requires adaptability to new technology, excellent visual acuity, and ITAR compliance.

Over 30 years, SQA Services has been a leading provider of managed supplier quality services, offering audits, assessments, remote surveillance, corrective actions, remediation, inspections, and engineering solutions to manufacturers across all industries. We deliver these services by deploying a network of highly skilled associates based throughout the United States and in over 90 countries worldwide, ensuring rapid on-site support at your supplier locations. Our associates are expert quality assurance professionals with extensive experience and local expertise, enabling us to represent our clients on demand and with greater speed and efficiency than our competitors. We’re hiring for a Quality Inspector Level 2 position in El Segundo, CA. This is an opportunity in which you will be supporting first shift with full-time hours. If you have a passion for mechanical products and a keen eye for quality, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Responsibilities:

  • Perform detailed inspections—visual, dimensional, and physical—on components, assemblies, and raw materials throughout various production phases (including in-process, final, and first article) to verify compliance with engineering drawings and specifications.
  • Operate and utilize precision measuring instruments such borescopes to do inspections on tubes.
  • Apply sharp visual inspection skills to identify workmanship issues and product defects, including damage such as burrs, scratches, loose fasteners, dings, and inadequate edge distances.
  • Identify and categorize nonconformities and confirm that corrective actions or rework have been properly executed.
  • Receiving shipping documentation for accuracy, confirming part numbers, serial numbers, change notices, and destination data are correct.
  • Required Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of hands-on quality inspection experience.
  • Strong ability to read and interpret manufacturing drawings and industry/commodity standards.
  • Hands on experience with borescopes.
  • Proficient in GD&T and validating dimensions preferred
  • Ability to adapt to new technology and software.
  • Excellent visual acuity to detect defects in complex products.
  • Must be willing to undergo a background check.
  • Must be ITAR compliant.
  • SQA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is based on merit and qualifications, and is not influenced by race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally protected status.​ This position requires access to ITAR-controlled technical data and/or defense articles. Must be ITAR compliant.
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