Quality Control Supervisor - Aerospace

PPG's Aerospace Business is looking for a Quality Control Supervisor to join our team in Huntsville, AL! As the Quality Control Supervisor, you will be responsible for the daily execution of product verification and acceptance activities supporting the manufacture and repair of aerospace transparencies. You will provide first-line leadership to Quality Inspectors and Quality Control Technicians while ensuring inspection, testing, documentation, traceability, and acceptance activities are performed in accordance with customer, engineering, regulatory, and QMS requirements.

This is a fully onsite position working on 2nd shift, Monday - Friday, 1pm - 9:30pm, and reporting to the Quality Control Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct and coordinate receiving, in-process, and final inspection activities.
• Ensure inspection activities support production schedules and customer commitments.
• Escalate resource constraints affecting product verification performance.
• Oversee execution of product acceptance and release activities.
• Ensure inspection and test records are complete prior to product acceptance.
• Support source inspections, customer inspections, and DQR activities.
• Verify acceptance-readiness requirements have been completed.
• Support shipment-release activities and customer acceptance reviews.
• Ensure proper identification, segregation, containment, and control of nonconforming material.
• Coordinate immediate response to quality issues discovered during inspection.
• Escalate significant conformity concerns to Quality Control Management.
• Support investigation and corrective-action activities.
• Provide daily leadership, coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback while ensuring compliance with AS9100, FAA, EASA, customer, and internal requirements.
• Support internal, customer, and regulatory audits.
• Monitor inspection trends and recurring issues.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• HS Diploma or GED required; Associate degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• 5+ years in aerospace quality, inspection, or manufacturing quality required.
• Previous leadership or lead-inspector experience preferred.
• Prior experience with Aerospace manufacturing processes.
• Experience with GD&T and blueprint interpretation, Nonconformance management, Inspection planning and scheduling, Root cause analysis support, and Customer acceptance processes.
• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.

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