Coatings Auditor - Independent Contractor

Overview

This Coatings Auditor position is an excellent opportunity for recent retirees or consultants that have working knowledge in one or more of these processes: Thermal Spray, Diffusion Coatings, or Vapor Deposition.

Our auditors enjoy traveling domestically and/or internationally, a flexible schedule (some auditors perform 1 or 2 audits a month, while others desire to audit every week), competitive compensation that includes a daily rate plus travel expenses, meeting new people and keeping in touch with technology and the latest developments, networking with other industry professionals.

Qualifications

The ideal auditor candidate will possess most of the following criteria:

• High School Diploma plus minimum of 10 years experience or Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Materials Science and 5 years working knowledge
• Working knowledge of one or more of the following processes: Thermal Spray, Diffusion Coatings, or Vapor Deposition
• Thorough understanding of coating testing/evaluation
• Five years auditing experience in the aerospace industry
• Thorough understanding of aerospace coating specs, processes and equipment
• Aerospace Quality Systems Knowledge / Experience

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Travel Required: Most audits are conducted on-site at clients’ locations.
• Physical Demands: Auditor is frequently required to walk and to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The auditor is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Work requires regular physical strain such as long periods of driving and flying. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close distance, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to hear and understand conversation in noisy environments and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: Exposed to a combination of normal office type environments and shop environments. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate with regular exposure to shop elements such as very loud noise, moving parts, odor, dust, fumes, heat, cold or chemicals.
• Personal Protective Equipment: The performance of this position regularly requires exposure to a typical manufacturing area, under certain conditions that may require the use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses with side shields, mandatory hearing protection, steel toe shoes and hard hats.