quality control engineer
About the company
Terrestrial X designs and builds dual-use hardware systems ? platforms and equipment with both civil and defence applications ? for aerospace, defence, energy, and critical infrastructure. We also contract-manufacture mission-critical parts for the same industries. Additive manufacturing, sheet and tube fabrication, forming, welding, CNC, and powder coating, under one roof in Edmonton. ISO 9001 and AS9100 certified.
We are not only a job shop running other people?s drawings. We build our own systems, and we build customer hardware. Same floor. Same standard. Parts and systems leave this building that have to work the first time. Quality is not a department off to the side. It is how we stay in business.
Your tasks
We need a self-directed Quality Control Specialist who lives on the floor, not in an office.
You run your own day. Nobody should have to chase you to inspect a first article, close an NCR, or pull a CoC together before the truck shows up.
You get your hands dirty. Calipers, height gauge, weld gauge, coating thickness, first-article, 3D scan when we need it. You will stand at a press brake, a weld booth, a print farm, and a powder line. You are not an office bum.
- Inspect and release both customer contract work and Terrestrial X?s own dual-use hardware systems. Assemblies and systems, not just piece parts. Same standard either way.
- Incoming, in-process, first article, and final inspection across additive, sheet metal, formed parts, weldments, machined features, and powder-coated finishes.
- Read drawings, GD&T, travelers, work instructions, WPS/PQR, and customer quality clauses without being walked through them.
- Inspect to print with calipers, micrometers, height gauges, pins, threads, radius gauges, surface plates, coating thickness gauges, and 3D scan data when that is the right tool.
- Complete AS9102 first article packages (Forms 1, 2, and 3), ballooned drawings, inspection records, and Certificates of Conformance that would survive a customer or registrar audit.
- Know what ?good? looks like in sheet metal (cut quality, bend radii, flatness, hardware, fit-up), forming (angle, springback, hole-to-bend), welding (profile, penetration, distortion, undercut, cleanliness), additive (layer quality, warpage, support scars, dimensional drift, surface), and powder c
Requirements
You have a backbone. When a part is out, it is out. You will not get talked off a call because someone is behind schedule. You also will not use quality as a club. You are picky about the work and useful to the people doing it. You explain the why, show the print, show the spec, and help them get it right the next time ? then you still do not ship scrap.
- Self-directing. You do not wait to be told what to inspect. You know the traveler, the drawing, and the process, and you get after it.
- Backbone. You will hold a line and take the heat. Operators will not talk you out of a reject. Leadership will not either.
- Picky, but helpful. You catch the stuff other people miss ? weld undercut, powder-coat holidays, warp on a formed panel, layer shift on a print, a dimension that ?looks close enough.? Then you show the operator why it failed and how to stop doing it. You are not a cop. You are the person who keeps the shop honest and the customer whole.
- Informative. You explain the standard, the drawing, and the why. People leave a conversation with you smarter, not smaller.
- Team player who gets dirty. Steel toes, hearing protection, long stretches on your feet. You work with operators, welders, printers, coaters, and machinists as a teammate. You teach. You do not grandstand. You still work for the part, not for popularity.
- Both kinds of work. Comfortable moving between customer job-shop lots and in-house dual-use system builds without lowering the bar on either.
Other
This is a shop-floor quality job. If you want a quiet office, a title, and a binder you never open on the floor ? do not apply.