Job Description

The primary responsibility of the Chief Inspector is to coordinate, accomplish, and execute all inspection and quality functions both on and off aircraft. Familiarity with maintenance, preventative maintenance, alteration, and inspection methods, techniques, practices, aids, equipment, and tools is essential to ensure proper work performance and airworthiness of the articles and aircraft types.

Responsibilities

• Ensure regulatory compliance by checking work accomplished away from the repair stations fixed location and report findings to the Chief Inspector.
• Assist in determining if the planned work by the maintenance team is within the repair station certificate authority.
• Maintain appropriate and current Code of Federal Regulation, Advisory Circulars, Specifications, Type Certificate Data sheets, Technical Data, and Airworthiness Directives.
• Audit complete records of all inspections and maintenance activities and help develop and maintain audit schedules, results, and corrective actions.
• Ensure timely follow-up for the completion of findings and that inspection tools and equipment, including inspection aids, are labeled correctly and in proper working order.
• Determine the final disposition of items that have exceeded allowable shelf-life limits or failed to meet incoming inspection.
• Assist in providing oversight of field inspectors for progressive and ongoing inspections at various stages of work scopes.
• Maintain and manage the contract maintenance provider program, including coordinating with the FAA on contract maintenance functions.
• Oversee proper documentation and traceability of aircraft parts, ensuring adherence to FAA and industry requirements.
• Assist with the filing of reports on serious failures, malfunctions, or defects, and determine whether incidents should be reported to the FAA under the Voluntary Disclosure Reporting program.
• Work in partnership with the training liaison to review the Training Needs Assessment for each employee and ensure personnel are appropriately trained before assigning inspection tasks.
• Participate in weekly quality meetings and maintenance meetings.

• A & P license
• Minimum 10 years of experience in performing inspection on aircraft
• Familiarity with all job accountabilities listed in the job description
• Flexibility with changes that may arise in a growing company
• Desire to make a long-term commitment to the company
• IA preferred

• Experience with quality control and quality inspection
• Knowledge of airframe and aircraft systems

This role offers a long-term opportunity with a growing company that provides employee benefits and relocation assistance for candidates outside the local area. There is flexibility to work remotely during the transition to the Thermal area and opportunities for travel.

Work Environment

The work environment involves operating across the world with a fleet of large aerial firefighting assets, including both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The fleet consists of Boeing 737 FIRELINERS™, Hercules C130, Citation and King Air fire support platforms, CH47D Chinooks, UH60, and Bell 412 helicopters, providing rapid response capabilities using aviation assets.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Thermal, California.

The pay range for this position is $120000.00 - $160000.00/yr.

Long term opportunity with a growing company
Employee benefits - can be provided for interested candidates
Relocation offered for candidates out of the local area.
Flexibility to work remote while they are in transition to relocating to the Thermal area
Opportunity to travel

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in San Bernardino,CA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 23, 2025.

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.