<div class="content-intro"><h3 id="isPasted"><strong>Company Overview</strong></h3> <p>Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.</p> <p>Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.</p> <p>At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.</p> <p>Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.</p></div><h3><strong>Group Overview</strong></h3> <p><strong>Air Mobility Group (AIRMOB)</strong> is responsible for developing and delivering Metrea’s aerial refueling (AAR) capabilities, ensuring the readiness and operational effectiveness of the tanker fleet. AIRMOB oversees fleet management, maintenance, and airworthiness, working to sustain and enhance refueling operations. It manages the integration of new processes and technologies, ensuring that tanker aircraft remain mission-ready through effective logistics, maintenance oversight, and regulatory compliance. By coordinating across various teams, AIRMOB ensures the fleet meets both current and future operational needs, supporting a range of specialized air mobility missions. </p> <h3><strong>Position Summary</strong></h3> <p>Inspectors are directly responsible to the Head of Airworthiness for ensuring that all maintenance performed on Company aircraft, engines, appliances, and accessories is accomplished in accordance with approved Aircraft Technical Orders, Company programs, Contract requirements and FAA Regulations to maintain a continuous state of airworthiness. Inspectors ensure that safety is the first consideration in Quality Control and Maintenance Departments.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Accomplish aircraft inspections, by the applicable maintenance program specifications, procedures, and criteria to detect and document discrepant or non-airworthy conditions</li> <li>Ensure all special inspections are completed and documented correctly in the maintenance records</li> <li>Perform required inspections (IPI and/or RII) on items as listed in technical/company manuals and following procedures listed in the GMM/technical data</li> <li>Monitors workmanship and materials to verify that the Company, NAVAIR, and FAA rules, regulations, and standards are complied with</li> <li>Ensure that aircraft modifications or component changes follow maintenance manual procedures or approved technical data procedures</li> <li>Ensure all required inspection items (RII) are completed and documented properly, and Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) have been received, reviewed, and approved before any aircraft modification action</li> <li>Perform receiving inspections of newly purchased, repaired, overhauled parts or continued service components and hardware to ensure proper documentation from approved vendors, absence of shipping damage, proper packaging, protection, and airworthiness certification</li> <li>Ensure assistance in the classification of repairs and alterations in relation to Major or Minor repairs</li> <li>Reviews all maintenance entries in the aircraft maintenance records/MIS, initiating procedural error notices as necessary to correct incomplete or deficient paperwork</li> <li>Monitors/audits aircraft inspection reports, log pages, and records for accuracy and completeness of entries before being sent to the Aircraft Records Department</li> <li>Conducts routine and unscheduled audits of aircraft work packages, including checks/inspections forms, log pages, routines and non-routines, modification orders, etc., to ensure completion, correctness, and use of appropriate references to approve data in all entries and forms</li> <li>Reviews all Deferred and Carry-Over Items</li> <li>Monitors the Company Precision Measuring Equipment Program for compliance</li> <li>Specific KC-135 experience is highly desirable</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What You Bring</strong></h3> <p><strong>Education</strong>: B.A./B.S. degree from a four-year college or university in a related field and/or a combination of education and related experience.</p> <ul> <li>Formal training as a lead auditor</li> </ul> <p><strong>Experience</strong>: </p> <ul> <li>Five (5) ye