Lockheed Martin · 1 month ago
Quality Tooling Inspector
Palmdale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry LevelLockheed Martin is a global aerospace, defense, and security company. The Quality Tooling Inspector role involves inspecting and approving precision tools during and after manufacture, ensuring they meet specifications and quality standards. The position also includes providing technical recommendations and maintaining records related to tool inspections and corrections.
AerospaceCyber SecurityMachinery ManufacturingMilitaryNational SecurityRemote SensingSecurity
Responsibilities
Determines methods, sequences, and inspection operations required, inspects and approves or rejects precision tools during and after manufacture for workmanship, accuracy, practicability and conformance to other specifications; inspects all types of tooling such as jigs, patterns, tool masters, fixtures, templates, master layouts, foundry dries, and dies, involving multiple coordinated location points, dimensions and/or tooling holes in several planes not at right angles or parallel to one another, irregular contours requiring spring-back and dimensional calculations, multiple acting principles and computation of compound angles; inspects metal or cloth layouts and templates involving the coordination with mating parts of adjacent contours and assemblies, making all needed measurements and compensations to check triangulations; inspects templates made to exacting tolerances from blueprints for irregular shaped and complex parts checking or making three dimensional projection to resolve canted views; inspects government-owned equipment for conformance to specified requirements, and inspects first-run completed parts and assemblies manufactured either on Company or government-owned equipment, checking for conformance to specifications, workmanship, accuracy and practicability by reference to tool designs, manufacturing plans, engineering drawing and other authorized information; recommends necessary rework and corrections
Performs the duties described herein in one or more of the following tool inspections fields, and applies a basic knowledge of the others:
Assembly, jigs, fixtures, and masters
Masters, gauges, and tools and dies used on such machines as standard power tools, punch presses, power brakes, etc
Wood, plastic, and/or plaster patterns and master models
Templates and master layouts
Inspects Product Support Equipment for conformance to specifications as required
Provides technical information and recommendations during tool manufacture to responsible personnel in such organizations as experimental, engineering, production, tool design, planning, making, and using departments, based upon physical inspection of tools or parts in relation to tool orders, engineering drawings, tool designs, masters, loft, engineering layouts and master layouts. Recommends practical changes in the sequence of operations
Recommends correction of tools, requesting necessary changes in tool design and engineering drawings to conform to current shop practice and tool making methods; determines responsible departments to which tooling reworks should be charged
Observes first-run or tool tryouts to verify the capacity of tools to produce parts or the capacity of the tools to produce parts on a quantity basis; analyzes and determines reasons for tool manufacturing and determines corrective action required, decides whether to have tools reworked or used as is, approves the release of rejected tools for a limited number of parts or days, and writes orders for the repair of worn or damaged tools
Makes alignment and symmetry checks on completed aircraft to determine conformance to engineering specifications
Prepares and maintains records of tool orders, rejections, new or re-worked tools and notes deviations from engineering or tool design
Stamps or otherwise approves acceptable items; rejects and initiates documentation to effect disposition of unacceptable items
Qualification
Required
Determines methods, sequences, and inspection operations required, inspects and approves or rejects precision tools during and after manufacture for workmanship, accuracy, practicability and conformance to other specifications
Inspects all types of tooling such as jigs, patterns, tool masters, fixtures, templates, master layouts, foundry dries, and dies, involving multiple coordinated location points, dimensions and/or tooling holes in several planes not at right angles or parallel to one another, irregular contours requiring spring-back and dimensional calculations, multiple acting principles and computation of compound angles
Inspects metal or cloth layouts and templates involving the coordination with mating parts of adjacent contours and assemblies, making all needed measurements and compensations to check triangulations
Inspects templates made to exacting tolerances from blueprints for irregular shaped and complex parts checking or making three dimensional projection to resolve canted views
Inspects government-owned equipment for conformance to specified requirements, and inspects first-run completed parts and assemblies manufactured either on Company or government-owned equipment, checking for conformance to specifications, workmanship, accuracy and practicability by reference to tool designs, manufacturing plans, engineering drawing and other authorized information
Recommends necessary rework and corrections
Performs the duties described herein in one or more of the following tool inspections fields, and applies a basic knowledge of the others: Assembly, jigs, fixtures, and masters; Masters, gauges, and tools and dies used on such machines as standard power tools, punch presses, power brakes, etc.; Wood, plastic, and/or plaster patterns and master models; Templates and master layouts
Inspects Product Support Equipment for conformance to specifications as required
Provides technical information and recommendations during tool manufacture to responsible personnel in such organizations as experimental, engineering, production, tool design, planning, making, and using departments, based upon physical inspection of tools or parts in relation to tool orders, engineering drawings, tool designs, masters, loft, engineering layouts and master layouts
Recommends practical changes in the sequence of operations
Recommends correction of tools, requesting necessary changes in tool design and engineering drawings to conform to current shop practice and tool making methods; determines responsible departments to which tooling reworks should be charged
Observes first-run or tool tryouts to verify the capacity of tools to produce parts or the capacity of the tools to produce parts on a quantity basis; analyzes and determines reasons for tool manufacturing and determines corrective action required, decides whether to have tools reworked or used as is, approves the release of rejected tools for a limited number of parts or days, and writes orders for the repair of worn or damaged tools
Makes alignment and symmetry checks on completed aircraft to determine conformance to engineering specifications
Prepares and maintains records of tool orders, rejections, new or re-worked tools and notes deviations from engineering or tool design
Stamps or otherwise approves acceptable items; rejects and initiates documentation to effect disposition of unacceptable items
Preferred
Knowledge of tool inspection practices, part fabrication, assembly, and installation within field of specialty, of procedure of tool shop practice, and of plastics, used in tool manufacture
Aerospace Tooling Knowledgeable
Attention to Detail
Analytical and Problem Solving Skills
Communication & Reporting Skills
Organizational & Time Management Skills
Company
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that specializes in advanced technology systems, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Lockheed Martin.
Founded in 1912
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$6.06BKey Investors
Air Force Research Laboratory
2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2025-08-28Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2023-11-13Grant· $33.7M
Leadership Team
Jim Taiclet
Chairman, President & CEO
Craig Martell
Chief Technology Officer
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