Aviation Safety Inspector (Training Portfolio Manager)

Aviation Safety Inspector (Manufacturing)

This role involves ensuring the safety and airworthiness of aircraft and related products by overseeing manufacturing processes and quality systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess and ensure aircraft and products meet approved design criteria for safe operation.
• Perform first article, in-process, and final assembly inspections.
• Oversee quality assurance for special manufacturing processes (e.g., heat treating, welding, software quality control).
• Conduct destructive and non-destructive inspections.
• Apply knowledge of manufacturing processes and airworthiness assurance.
• Develop and implement quality systems and procedures.
• Evaluate testing procedures and use of improved design data.
• May involve issuing airworthiness certificates or managing related programs.
• Perform technical functions related to aircraft design, manufacturing, testing, and certification.

General Requirements:

• Valid state driver's license.
• Fluent in English.
• High school graduate or equivalent.
• No more than two Federal Aviation Regulations violations in the last 5 years.
• No chemical dependencies or drug abuse that could interfere with job performance.

Medical Requirements:

• Physically able to perform duties safely and efficiently.
• Good distant vision in each eye (glasses/contacts permitted).
• Ability to hear conversational voice (hearing aids permitted).
• No physical conditions posing a hazard to self or others, or interfering with flying as a passenger in various aircraft.

Specialized Experience (One Year Equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13 in Federal Service):

Demonstrate experience in one of the following:

• **Quality Systems & Manufacturing Oversight:** Experience in quality systems, methods, and techniques in aircraft product/article manufacturing, ensuring compliance with design criteria and safe operations. This includes experience in most of these areas:

* First article, in-process, and final assembly inspection. * Quality assurance for special processes (e.g., heat treating, welding, software quality control). * Destructive and non-destructive inspection. * Manufacturing processes and airworthiness assurance. * Developing and implementing quality systems and procedures. * Testing procedures and use of improved design data.

• **Airworthiness Certification Management:** Experience directly issuing airworthiness certificates or managing programs leading to original airworthiness certificates or export approvals for products/articles.
• **Combination:** A mix of the experience described in points 1 and 2.

Typical Relevant Experience Gained In Roles Such As:

• Quality Engineer
• Quality Systems Supervisor/Manager
• Quality Systems Auditor
• Service Representative with Technical Quality Experience
• FAA Designated Manufacturing Inspection Representative (DMIR)
• Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR) authorized for manufacturing inspections.