The Chief Inspector
Location: Essex
Perm role
The role
The chief inspector is responsible for leading and coordinating our clients inspection activities, ensuring manufactured components and associated documentation consistently meet customer, drawing, regulatory and quality management system requirements.
The position requires an experienced, technically capable and hands-on inspection professional with a strong background in precision aerospace machining, fine-tolerance measurement and dimensional inspection.
About you
The successful candidate must have substantial practical experience in the preparation, review and approval of aerospace and customer-specific product approval documentation, including:
FAIR – First Article Inspection Reports
AS9102 requirements and Forms 1, 2 and 3
PPAP – Production Part Approval Process
GOPPA/customer-specific product approval processes
Ballooned engineering drawings
Characteristic accountability
Material and process certification
Special-process documentation
Dimensional inspection reports
Traceability and supporting objective evidence
The role requires extensive practical knowledge of precision measurement techniques and equipment
The successful candidate must understand appropriate measurement techniques for fine-tolerance machined components and be capable of determining whether the selected inspection method provides sufficient accuracy and repeatability for the tolerance being measured.
Candidates must demonstrate:
Minimum of 5 years' previous experience in a Chief Inspector, Senior Inspector, Lead Inspector or equivalent senior inspection position within a precision engineering environment.
In addition, candidates must have demonstrable experience in:
Aerospace or similarly regulated precision engineering.
Fine-tolerance CNC machined components.
A strong working knowledge of CMM inspection is essential.
Please call for a full job specification or email your CV to
INDHP
