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Overview

The Quality Inspector is responsible for performing a variety of inspections, checks, and tests for quality control in the manufacturing of products. This role involves collaboration with quality and production teams to ensure quality-produced items while allowing for creativity in solving quality concerns.

Responsibilities

  • Perform a variety of inspections, checks, testing, and sampling procedures for product manufacturing processes using various measuring tools.
  • Conduct manufacturing inspections and sampling and testing of incoming aerospace components and raw materials to ensure company standards are met.
  • Conduct final inspections on outgoing components.
  • Prepare product verification documentation.
  • Use part-marking equipment on incoming aerospace components.
  • Perform component dimensional inspections per customer requirements.

Requirements

  • High School or Equivalent required.
  • Technical/Trade School preferred.
  • 1-3 years’ experience of Quality Inspection.
  • Strong work ethic and good attitude.
  • Must be able to read and understand drawings and blueprints, parts lists, inspection plans, and specification instructions.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Location: Grand Prairie, TX
  • Hours: First shift (6am-2:30pm). OT usually available.

Benefits

PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Grand Prairie, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $18/hr, this posting comes in about 36% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 466 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 5% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Grand Prairie, TX

We're tracking 27 other active welding openings in Grand Prairie, TX right now, from 19 different employers. 10 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,339 other active welding openings from 721 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Grand Prairie, or widen the search to Texas.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (27), Zachry Group (22), and Austin Industries (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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