GD&T Quality Inspector -- Precision Manufacturing

Job Description

Job Description

Step into Quality at EMD Pittsburgh

Join the EMD Pittsburgh facility’s Quality team as a GD&T Quality Inspector. In this role, you’ll be central to our manufacturing quality assurance efforts—verifying parts, subassemblies, and simple tooling against drawings and specifications to keep production on track and compliant.

A day in the life

• Confirm machine setups using a range of inspection devices before and during production.
• Evaluate basic manufacturing tooling—cutting tools, assembly fixtures, and machining fixtures—for readiness and conformity.
• Check characteristics tied to welding processes and assess base materials using appropriate inspection equipment.
• Conduct liquid penetrant and visual examinations in accordance with ASNT SNT-TC-1A and NAVSEA-250-1500.
• Measure and verify electrical properties of mechanisms for wound coil assemblies (e.g., megger, fluke, HI-POT).
• Review and verify process documentation to ensure adherence to internal procedures and external specifications.
• Inspect individual components and subassemblies to confirm correct fit and assembly; supply data required for any special machining.
• Use computers for inspection tasks: documentation review, labor/time entries, digital photography, communications, and operation of computer-aided inspection equipment, along with other systems and programs.
• Stay current with inspection-related quality procedures and maintain qualifications per internal procedures and customer requirements.
• Capture photographs of products, processes, and product-related items as part of the quality record.
• Support additional inspection activities of equal or lower complexity, including duties referenced in lower inspector position descriptions.

What you bring

• U.S. citizenship required due to DoD program needs.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DoD security clearances/approvals.
• Proficiency in reading blueprints for machined parts (ASME Y14.5) and applying shop math, including algebra and trigonometry.
• At least one year of inspection and/or machining experience.
• High school diploma or equivalent attained through training and/or mechanical experience.

Work schedule and training

This is a union role assigned to one of three shifts. Initial training will be conducted on first/daylight shift.