Quality Assurance Inspector

Job Description
Job Summary
Ensure that all raw materials, intermediate products, and finished products conform to applicable specification requirements during processing. Perform product/process audits ensuring compliance with Standing Operating Procedures, Manufacturing Instructions and Analytical Standard Methods. Perform building inspections ensuring compliance to quality assurance practices and procedures. Perform packaging inspections ensuring compliance with product specifications. Initiate quality assurance investigations as product discrepancies are identified. Initiate corrective and preventative actions as discrepancies are identified.
Essential Functions
Minimum of 2 years experience performing quality assurance or quality control inspections
Performing packaging inspections
Performing building inspections
Ensuring compliance with applicable procedures
Qualifications / Job Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily following established standards, codes, and safe work practices and procedures. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Experience/Education
High school education with a minimum of 2 years experience in quality assurance /quality control to include product inspections or analytical testing. Associate degree in Chemistry (or comparable scientific discipline) preferred.
Skills/Knowledge
Knowledge of sampling and inspection processes including the proper use of sample inspection tables. Knowledge of product/process audits and verification of processes to established procedures.
Physical Effort and Dexterity
Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time; work with small and/or fragile test and calibration equipment; use hands to finger, handle or feel; climb ladders; work in ambient temperature environment for 2 to 3-hour periods.
Sensory Acuity
Ability to speak and hear to use 2-way radio and communicate with others; detect slight irregularities or defects of raw materials, packaging supplies or products visually, or by touch or smell
Environment and Scheduling
Ability to work 12 hour rotating shifts and/or flexing hours to match production schedule; work in all weather conditions
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
Desired Qualifications
Completed 40 hours training in Quality related science; background in Chemistry; knowledge of analytical methods and procedures and explosive production processes; knowledge of ISO 9000 standards; experience utilizing quality tools including inspection tables and Root Cause Analysis; intermediate skill level in Microsoft Word, Excel and Access; beginner skill level in LabSoft LIMS.
2-5 years of prior experience in Quality Assurance/Quality Control in a government contracting environment.
Previous experience performing root cause analysis of product failures.
Associates Degree in Chemistry (or other scientific discipline).
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $52955 - $84728
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Platforms & Services
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.
The Platforms & Services (P&S) sector under BAE Systems, Inc does the big stuff: the armored combat vehicles, naval guns, missile launchers, and naval ship repair...just to name a few. Our employees take pride in the work they do and why they do it. They are on the front lines every day, building our products to protect the lives of those who serve. We may be biased, but we think P&S does some of the coolest work around, and we think you will too.