Inspection Supervisor

The Role

Amphenol Aerospace Operations is seeking an Inspection Supervisor to work out of its state-of-the-art facility in Sidney, NY.

The Inspection Supervisor will lead and manage the inspection employees to ensure aerospace products conform to drawings, specifications and customer requirements while maintaining compliance with the AS9100 quality management system.

The key responsibilities of the Inspection Supervisor include, but are not limited to:

• Supervise all hourly inspection employees
• Provide customer support for customer current issues
• Assign workloads to hourly inspectors
• Schedule overtime as required by workload, maintain employee time keeping, schedule vacations based on typical workload
• Learn all aspects of inspection work (should understand how test equipment works and what drives the inspection requirements)
• Validate inspector rejections
• Prioritize customer source product inspection as required
• Interface with customer source inspector on-site, aide and support
• Become delegated source inspector for customers that need coverage
• Help inspectors with the interpretation of drawings and routines
• Oversee the inspector training as required by the quality manual
• Abide by collective bargaining unit rules and all safety rules and regulations
• Act as the primary interface for Customer Service received phone and email issues and questions
• Coordinate action items with quality engineers, process engineers, manufacturing engineers, and all other required resources to satisfy customer needs
• Lead investigative teams and efforts as required to satisfy timelines and customer needs
• Utilize problem solving techniques and tools during investigations to assure full and final resolution of issue
• Maintain constant interface with customer until issue is resolved to customer approval
• Create and update inspection routines to meet customer requirements
• Supervisor and manager responsibilities related to EHS:
  • Ensure safe work practices are being followed by employees
  • Ensure direct reports attend required EHS trainings
  • Understand training requirements for tasks that are being performed
  • Ensure incidents and near misses are appropriately reported and corrective actions are implemented

Location

• Sidney, NY
  • 30 Minute Drive from Binghamton, NY
  • 20 Minute Drive from Oneonta, NY

Salary: $62,354 - $75,000

The Person

The key skills and qualities of an Inspection Supervisor at Amphenol Aerospace Operations:

• Minimum of a two-year degree or equivalent work experience preferred
• Familiarity with inspection tools
• Working knowledge of the Quality Manual, military specifications, ITAR, and the Quality System
• Strong understanding of AS9100 requirements and aerospace drawings/specifications
• Experience with inspection tools (CMM, calipers, micrometers, optical, gauges) and measurement techniques
• Ability to read engineering drawings and GD&T
• Ability to work in a production environment
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Capable of working with and motivating employees to achieve company goals
• Leadership skills, problem-solving, and familiarity with QA systems and audit requirements
• Ability to create and document inspection routines in a clear, concise, and logical form for employees to follow
• Frequent sitting, lifting (11-20 pounds), walking, standing, and computer use
• Occasional reaching, twisting, bending, climbing, kneeling, and squatting
• Ability to work overtime as required to support the inspection teams

The Company

With manufacturing sites in Sidney, NY, Mesa, AZ, Nogales, MX, and a Design Center in Pasadena, CA, Amphenol Aerospace Operations has been a leader in designing and manufacturing electrical components for the aviation and commercial airplane industry for over 100 years.

Focusing on serving the needs of advanced and challenging market segments, we pride ourselves on our consistent ability to innovate and provide the markets with new creative solutions.

Working at Amphenol means you are recognized and valued for your contributions because we believe that our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. We support and encourage career development for all employees and have ample opportunities for advancement.

We pride ourselves for being customer-centric, accountable, reliable, and enthusiastic in all that we do. These values are ingrained in each of us and contribute to a culture of teamwork and meaningful work.

Amphenol offers competitive pay and benefits. The candidate must be able to legally work in the United States; we are unable to provide sponsorship. This position requires access to controlled technology that is subject to US export controls. Qualified candidates must be a US person (including US Citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) or eligible to obtain required authorization(s) from the U.S. Government.

Amphenol is a proud Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status. We aim to create an inclusive working environment where all employees are respected and treated equally.

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