Inspector Sr - Customer Returned Goods (Aerospace)

Inspector Sr - Customer Returned Goods (Aerospace)

Group: Aerospace Group N. America

Division: Fluid Systems (FSD)

Location : USA Fluid Systems Elyria OH

Job Family : Manufacturing

Job Type : Regular

Posted : Jan 28, 2026

Job ID : 62315

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Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we?ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose ? Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow ? comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

At Parker Aerospace, we develop technologies and innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient and increasingly sustainable flight for the lifecycle of the aircraft, including aftermarket support. Our passionate people with deep engineering expertise, together with our breadth of differentiated technologies, ensure that we make the extraordinary happen and continue to shape the future of aviation in partnership with our customers.

This position is subject to meeting U.S. Export Compliance and/or U.S. Government Contracting Citizenship eligibility requirements.

Day Shift Hours: 6:00 am - 2:30 pm

Hourly rate starting at $23.50

Position requires High School Diploma or GED (in addition to the experience listed below).

$1,000 Signing Bonus paid as follows: $250 at 30 days, $750 at 6 months

• Competitive Medical with prescription, Dental (including orthodontia) & Vision from date of hire
• Supplemental Medical Benefits: Critical Illness, Accidental Injury and Hospital Indemnity
• Life insurance policy ? Parker paid
• Annual Cash Incentive Plan (bonus)
• Alternate Work Schedule (AWS 9/80 schedule)
• 401K with 5% company match
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Education (tuition) Reimbursement Program
• Employee Recognition Program/Events & Community Service Opportunities

Position Summary

Responsible for end-to-end processing of customer product returns (RMAs), including inspection, disposition routing, and system updates, while maintaining precise records to support quality, warranty, and customer service requirements.

Inspection

Primary Responsibilities:

• Issues RMA number when requested by customers for product returns
• Adapts to varied conditions based on how products return from the field.
• Inducts products and creates CRG sales order
• Verifies assemblies conform to product specifications. Consults with engineering, manufacturing engineering and quality engineering as required.
• Interprets blueprints, engineering orders, assembly routes, test specifications, service bulletins, customer requirements, and quality directives.
• Responsible for the entire paperwork packaging of the unit.

Secondary Responsibilities if required by business demands:

• Perform complex inspection on detailed machined parts using a wide variety of measuring instruments to determine acceptability or rejections of parts and/or parts finish.
• Read complex blueprints including complex geometric tolerances and dimensions.
• Adapt and develop inspection set-ups to check sample parts, forgings and castings. Check tool and jig layouts.
• Perform first article and envelope inspection, source inspections and/or semi-complex surface plate set-ups.
• Interpret specifications, charts, manuals and other data to arrive at acceptance or rejection. Use advanced mathematics to convert blueprint dimension and tolerances. Work within the guidelines of drawings, schematics, blueprints, route sheets, travelers, quality directives, technical engineering specifications, customer's requirements and military standards.
• Ensure quality of all products assembled for cosmetics, dimensional requirements and identification.
• Layout and measure hole locations and centerlines on castings, forgings and machine parts to maintain control of machining cycle during manufacture.
• Determine acceptance or rejection after inspecting parts, tools, instruments or x-ray film. Identify causes of defective conditions and test failures and prepare all appropriate documentation.
• Investigate cause of customer return failures. Perform inspections to applicable specifications within assembly, test and shipping departments. Assist customer/government source inspectors as necessary.
• Maintain accurate and precise written inspection records. Properly identify and segregate non-conforming material.
• Provide technical support training to other areas in measurement of prototypes and also provide advice on measuring technique.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date acceptance and rejection records and/or certifications systems as required by the applicable specifications.
• Determine acceptance or rejection after inspection and/or calibration of parts, tools, instruments or x-ray film. Identify defective conditions and test failures and prepare all appropriate documentation and/or calibration history.

Additional Responsibilities

• Must maintain the highest degree of customer service, quality, productivity, throughput, dependability, safety, cost reduction, a clean and organized work environment and willing to accept change. Must exhibit team cooperative spirit through assistance to others and knowledge sharing.
• Actively participate in department problem solving, lean events and high performance teams.
• Actively maintain 5S in the department.
• Serve as a resource to other team members and assist in training and development efforts.
• Responsible for continuous learning or education required to maintain proficiency in job skills and job knowledge.
• May travel to the supper to research, identify and repair product failures.
• Other duties as required to assist the team leader.

Job Requirements

• Six (6) or more years advanced geometric experience performing complex inspections. Knowledge of aerospace products, specifications and requirements desired.
• Advanced geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Proficiency in reading and understanding complex blueprints, route sheets, test specifications, customer's specifications and internal drawings and procedures.
• Possess working knowledge of shop mathematics including trigonometry.
• Must demonstrate effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must possess effective problem solving skills and capabilities.
• Visual inspection skills required including the ability to distinguish between colors and pass a visual acuity test.
• Preferred experience of CMM operations, background in dimensioning and tolerancing per ANSI Y 14.5.
• Ability to work effectively with others and be a participative team player.
• May be required to be certified as a Level II Nondestructive Test Inspector in two or more disciplines. Certification must be in accordance with MIL-STD-410 and PES1-29.
• Knowledge of applicable military standards or specifications required.
• May be required to lift up to 50 lbs.
• May be required to post and report on Team Improvement Board metrics.
• Must be able to pass current Solder Inspection Certification per Division/Site standards (or is already a certified solder inspector).
• Must enter into and meet the requirements of the site's FAA/DOT Random Drug and Alcohol Program for covered employees who inspect safety sensitive products.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to favorably pass a visual acuity exam (which includes far vision, near vision and color perception)
• Must be willing and able to work with customer auditors and source inspectors.
• Will be responsible for managing Final Inspection record control.

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

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