Job Title: Mechanical Quality Inspector

Job Description

The Mechanical Quality Inspector is tasked with inspecting parts, assemblies, tooling fixtures, and material to ensure compliance with customer requirements, company specifications, and quality standards. You will set up, operate, inspect, test, and adjust new and reworked tools, dies, gauges, jigs, and fixtures for conformance to engineering drawings and specifications. The role also involves maintaining, processing, and updating confidential and sensitive electronic and hard copy reports, records, and statistics. This role will be working Monday-Thursday on ten hour shifts. There is optional overtime on Fridays.

Responsibilities

• Inspect machined parts, components, assemblies, and materials to ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines such as Military Standards, ASTM, and ANSI.
• Provide various electronic and hard copy reports of inspections and notify appropriate parties, including project engineers.
• Set up and calibrate measuring and test equipment, and schedule service and repair of equipment.
• Maintain calibration computer databases.
• Observe testing and provide oversight to verify compliance with requirements.
• Perform nondestructive examinations on various metallic and nonmetallic materials, parts, and assemblies using methods such as penetrant, hi-pot, and hardness testing.
• Interact with regulatory agencies and customers during audits and reviews of company inspection and calibration activities.
• Monitor and verify quality in accordance with statistical process or other control procedures.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in inspection, quality control, quality assurance, and quality inspection.
• Experience with micrometers, calipers, and other visual inspection tools.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and specifications.
• Strong communication skills for effective interfacing with all levels of employees including management.
• Ability to interpret non-routine information and respond to non-routine issues.
• Capability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Good computer skills.
• Hand check inspection experience.
• Observation and recording as witness experience.
• Experience in metal/composite inspection.
• Proficiency in paperwork related to quality inspection.
• Familiarity with inspection data and witness inspection.
• ERP/MRP/SAP experience.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 standards.
• Understanding of DOE quality assurance requirements (preferred).
• Familiarity with the person Y14.5 (preferred).
• Typically requires an associate's degree, trade school certificate, military training, or equivalent in quality inspections or certification by a professional group such as ASQ or AWS.
• One or more years of progressive experience in electrical, mechanical, electromechanical, or metrology inspection and calibration.

Work Environment

This position is based onsite at the Tupelo Facility. This role will be working Monday-Thursday on 10 hour shifts. There is optional overtime on Fridays.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $22.00 - $33.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Tupelo,MS.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 7, 2025.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

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

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.

Salary : $22 - $33