Quality Assurance Inspector B (NDT-RT/PT)

Job Highlights

Title	Quality Assurance Inspector B (NDT-RT/PT)
Type	Full Time (2nd shift)
Experience	Check
Function	Management/Manufacturing
Location	West Palm Beach, FL, United States
Company	L3Harris Technologies

Company Profile

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains.

Job Profile

The company is looking for an NDT Quality Assurance Inspector B to join its operations team,

The position requires non-destructive testing techniques and methods to ensure propulsion components meet quality control standards.

Education Level

• High School Diploma or equivalent (required)

Work Experience

• Requires completion of a 2-3 Technical Certification or Trade School or equivalent.
• NAS410 Level II Certification in RT (Radiographic Testing – film or digital). PT (Penetrant Testing) certification is a plus.
• Experience and additional certification requirements will depend on the level filled.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Assure equipment is maintained properly, that supply inventories are adequate, and notify Procurement to initiate purchase orders when required.
• Clean and otherwise process parts for NDT inspection processes. Select or devise appropriate holding devices and make recommendations for the modification of fixtures and tools to accommodate new, unusual, or irregularly shaped parts.
• Clean parts requiring minor cleaning after inspection using conventional means.
• Comply with environmental health and safety regulations and program requirements to ensure safe working conditions and to preserve a healthy environment.
• Ensure the movement of parts is tracked through applicable systems and carry small parts to their next location or contact inside transportation for the movement of large parts.
• Perform over-inspections and audits as required to ensure the flow of material through the manufacturing process.
• Prepare detailed reports for inspections performed showing the defect(s) revealed by the test as applicable. For all tests, accept or reject material based on the interpretation of applicable standards. Fill out quality review orders or inspection discrepancy and correction records and mark parts, scope, or chart to show indications of defects revealed and to process unacceptable parts per procedures. Determine root cause(s) and work with others to establish effective corrective action to resolve. Responsible for entering pertinent information into all computer systems using the Point of Origin Material Review Board Procedures to ensure historical information is properly maintained. Complete and stamp all required documentation to acknowledge accepted/rejected hardware.
• Review and check complex procedures, drawings, work instructions, and specifications to detect errors and interface with planning or engineering to recommend changes or revisions to improve efficiencies and methods. Identify nondestructive equipment design improvements. Work from written and verbal instructions, drawings, quality assurance data sheets, inspection methods, and standards, nondestructive test specifications, general operating methods, and instructions from nondestructive test engineers to plan, set, calibrate, and perform capability checks and inspections on complex hardware. Use various precision measurements and optical equipment as required to determine acceptability or to describe defect size and location.
• Work with planning, engineering, and supporting departments, and provide technical guidance to interpret and implement nondestructive test requirements of developmental and production programs. Plan, coordinate, and perform setups and inspections. Coordinate the training activities of other inspectors. Maintain appropriate Level II/III certification including required reliability demonstrations.
• Perform other related work of a comparable or lower skill level as required.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Requires ability to make applicable calculations according to established formulas and work from specifications and inspection standards and methods sheets.
• Requires basic computer skills and the ability to navigate through manufacturing and quality systems.
• Requires basic knowledge of alloy type and material defect characteristics.
• Requires well-rounded knowledge of nondestructive test practices, procedures, and applications, and dimensional inspection methods.

Preferred Qualifications

• Level III Certification in digital radiography
• NDT inspection experience on hardware with brazing, casting, welding, and forging material conditions.
• Prior experience in the Aerospace industry is a plus.

Work Environment

• The ability to pull and push is required
• Computer usage is a must
• Exposure to occasional noise when working in test areas.
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Intermittent exposure to oil, alkali, and acid solutions when processing, handling, and inspecting parts.
• Must have the ability to hear
• Must have vision acuity, depth perception, distinguish basic and shaded colors
• Must lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• Possible exposure to X-rays.
• Regularly expected to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, stoop, and kneel.
• Use of personal protective equipment is required.

Benefits/Perks

Health-

• Medical with High Deductible and traditional PPO plan options, as well as, vision and a full array of supplemental health benefits
• A doctor’s service to help with referrals and second opinions for you, your family, and your parents

Family-

• 4 weeks of paid parental leave for moms and dads
• Fertility treatment
• Subsidized backup childcare and eldercare
• Adoption assistance – $5,000 per adoption/$15,000 per employee
• Pet insurance

Well-Being-

• No cap to your PTO time (for exempt employees)
• Dress for your day – wear what works for you at work
• Legal plan for you, your family, and your parents
• Discount platform
• 9/80 work schedule available for most U.S. employees

Employer’s Statement

L3Harris Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.