Quality Specialist

What you will be doing

Our mission is to build a million drones a year here in America, and the production line that builds them needs an embedded quality resource: the specialist. As a Quality Specialist, you will be proficient in inspection, measurement, and quality systems and will be trusted to develop and improve them as well as train others in them.

• This is the role that blends the best of both inspector and engineer, resulting in highly skilled hands-on expertise with engineering judgement and authority.
• You inspect to drawings and procedures, but you also write the inspection plans.
• You verify production builds, but you also define how a new product gets inspected before anyone has built it.
• When a defect shows up, you're the one who contains it, and then you make sure it doesn't escape the same way twice.

If you've spent years on a production floor learning quality inspection and engineering, and you want to build something that matters with high ownership and hands-on engagement, this is your role.

Responsibilities

• Perform first article, in-process, and final inspections on mechanical, electrical, and PCBA assemblies against drawings, specifications, and workmanship standards
• Measure and verify parts and assemblies with precision tools (calipers, micrometers, height and pin gauges, optical comparators, and vision systems) and interpret GD&T on engineering drawings
• Triage non-conforming product on the line, then contain, document, and lead MRB disposition with engineering and production
• Write and maintain inspection plans, verification criteria, checklists, and quality work instructions for new and existing products
• Support NPI through design and process reviews, PFMEA, and control plan development, establishing inspection points before product hits rate
• Watch quality data (yield, defect Pareto, escapes, SPC) and flag trends before they become line-down events or field failures
• Own calibration of inspection and measurement equipment and maintain quality records and traceability
• Train operators and technicians on inspection criteria, workmanship standards, and quality procedures, and support internal and customer audits

You should have the following

• High school diploma or equivalency
• 5+ years of hands-on quality inspection or quality engineering experience in a manufacturing production environment
• Ability to read and work from engineering drawings, work instructions, and controlled documentation, including GD&T
• Proficiency with precision measurement tools and inspection methods
• Experience documenting nonconformances and driving root cause and corrective action
• Experience with MES/ERP quality modules, NCR systems, and electronic records
• Proficiency in SQL, including querying production databases to pull quality metrics and build dashboards

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, math, or science discipline
• Electronics inspection certification (IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001) or cable and harness inspection certification (IPC/WHMA-A-620)
• Experience in an AS9100 or ISO 9001 quality management system, ideally in aerospace or defense manufacturing
• CMM programming (PC-DMIS, Calypso) or automated vision inspection experience
• SPC and process capability (Cpk) analysis
• PCBA/SMT inspection experience: AOI, X-ray, solder joint evaluation

US Salary Range

$39.00/hr - 60.00/hr USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.