Standard Job Description

The Aircraft Structural & Functional Inspector is responsible for verifying that all aircraft components and systems meet stringent workmanship, alignment, and design‑specification requirements from initial assembly through final flight‑line release. Duties include inspecting structural, electrical, plumbing, and hydraulic assemblies, sub‑assemblies, bench assemblies, and functional installations for proper attachment, contour, material finish, and conformance to installation drawings; reviewing sealing operations on new, stripped, or modified integral wing tanks and related structural installations for completeness, freedom from foreign matter, and sealability; overseeing final washing, priming, painting, and internal trimming to ensure compliance with engineering prints, disposition data, and process specifications; confirming the final assembly and mating of major airplane structures such as wing‑to‑wing, power‑plant‑to‑wing, fuselage sections, and empennage, as well as rigging of elevators, flaps, ailerons, and stabilizers; inspecting the hookup and operational testing of functional units—including electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, rigging, power‑plant, and armament systems—and conducting compartment‑by‑compartment shakedowns to verify alignment, clearances, torque, tension, and throw limits; performing simulated‑flight operational checkout to validate adherence to the latest design changes and customer requirements before transfer to the flight line; checking jig loading, framing, skinning, riveting, out‑of‑jig shakedown, spot‑welding, bonding, and pressure‑testing for workmanship, fastener integrity (cracks, edge distance, size), and overall conformance; and stamping or rejecting items with appropriate documentation for disposition. Current inspection certifications per Company policy and the Quality‑Control Manual, and the ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and inspection specifications, are required.

Basic Qualifications

Candidates are required to have the following minimum levels of experience and/or training:

Four years of experience, that includes any combination of the following:

1. Military aircraft structures quality assurance experience.

2. Aircraft assembly, structures, electrical installation or hydraulics installation experience.

3. One-year experience in application of aircraft finishes may offset one year of the four-year requirement.

4. Completion of the LMASC Chattahoochee Technical Institute Production Inspection Training Course of 300-400 hours may offset one year of the four-year requirement.

5. Passing score of the ASQ Certified Inspector examination may offset two years of the four-year requirement.

Must successfully pass the Lockheed Martin facilitated entrance Q&MS Inspection examination prior to employment. Must be able to demonstrate ability to enter and satisfy associated requirements within the Human Factors Assessment prior to employment.

Desired Skills