Quality Inspection Lead 1st shift

Job Summary
We’re looking for a Quality Inspection Lead to perform complex quality inspections and help guide the day-to-day work of the inspection team. In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll help ensure repaired and manufactured aerospace components meet customer, company, and applicable quality requirements while supporting inspector training, work prioritization, and continuous improvement.

Work That Matters
At Chromalloy, your work directly supports aviation safety and reliability. Our teams repair and manufacture critical aerospace components used across the global aviation industry. What you do here has real-world impact—every day.

Shift: 1st shift, Monday-Friday 6:30a-3:00p

What You’ll Be Doing

Perform receiving, in-process, and final inspections to verify that aerospace components meet customer and company requirements.
Provide hands-on guidance, support, and technical leadership to inspectors.
Coordinate inspection workflow based on production priorities, staffing, equipment availability, and team capabilities.
Train quality and production employees on inspection requirements, quality guidelines, inspection methods, and the proper use of precision measuring equipment.
Use a variety of precision measuring and inspection equipment, including calipers, micrometers, coordinate measuring machines, and optical comparators.
Help ensure inspectors are proficient in required inspection techniques, equipment, and methods.
Verify that inspectors have access to and understand the technical data required to evaluate maintenance work and determine airworthiness.
Review process documentation, purchase orders, shipping documentation, and production travelers for completeness and accuracy.
Partner with supervisors and Engineering to identify the root causes of quality defects.
Ensure inspection equipment is available, properly maintained, and in good working condition.
Support the Quality Manager in evaluating inspector proficiency.
Keep management informed of significant quality issues, developments, and corrective actions.
Promote compliance with company quality requirements, ethical standards, attendance expectations, and safe work practices.


What We’re Looking For

High school diploma or equivalent.
At least two years of experience inspecting aerospace components.
Ability to read and interpret blueprints, equipment manuals, technical data, and work-in-process documentation.
Experience using precision measuring and inspection equipment.
Basic math skills and strong attention to detail.
Ability to provide guidance, training, and support to other employees.
Self-motivated approach with a high level of ownership and accountability.
Team-building and effective communication skills.
Ability to understand, speak, read, and write in English.


Nice to Have

FAA Repairman Certificate
Inspection experience across multiple aerospace product lines.
Experience using coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) or optical comparators.
Experience training or providing day-to-day technical guidance to inspectors or production employees.


Work Environment & Physical Requirements

Regularly uses hands and arms to operate measuring and inspection equipment and handle components.
Frequently performs repetitive hand movements and may sit for extended periods.
Occasionally stands, walks, bends, kneels, crouches, pushes, pulls, and lifts materials weighing up to 50 pounds.
Works in an aerospace manufacturing and repair environment that may include moving machinery, power tools, vibration, elevated noise levels, and changes in temperature or humidity.
Frequently works with precision measuring and inspection equipment.