At Turbine Kinetics, our mission is to deliver high-quality, reliable aerospace and defense products with unmatched customer service. The Quality Production Expeditor plays a key role in supporting this mission by ensuring that parts flow efficiently through production and quality processes. This role supports on-time delivery, regulatory compliance, and Turbine Kinetics commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
The Quality Production Expeditor acts as a liaison between Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Customer Support, ensuring the accurate and timely progression of hardware through all inspection and documentation stages.
Key Responsibilities
Production & Workflow Coordination
- Track and expedite work orders through inspection to meet customer delivery schedules.
- Prioritize and adjust workflow based on critical customer needs, engineering changes, and production constraints.
- Identify roadblocks or delays and collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve issues quickly.
Quality Interface & Compliance
- Work closely with Quality Inspectors to ensure nonconformances (NCRs) are resolved quickly.
- Coordinate the movement of parts through AS9100-compliant quality inspection processes.
- Ensure all required certifications, test results, material traceability documents, and travelers are complete and accompany parts at each stage.
- Assist in clearing nonconformances (NCRs) by working with Quality and Engineering to keep product flow uninterrupted.
Cross-Functional Communication
- Provide daily updates to management on production status, risks, and schedule impacts.
- Escalate issues impacting delivery, yield, or customer satisfaction.
Documentation & Data Integrity
- Ensure all production records comply with aerospace and defense regulatory requirements (FAA, EASA, DoD, NADCAP when applicable).
- Validate accuracy of routers, inspection sheets, work instructions, and engineering change documentation.
- Generate reports on workflow performance, cycle time, and expediting activities.
Required Skills & Competencies
- Familiarity with aerospace or high-reliability manufacturing environments.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to coordinate activities across multiple departments.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially excel
- Advance excel skills desired
- Understanding of AS9100, FAA regulatory requirements, and general quality system expectations.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, technical specifications, and inspection documentation.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a sense of urgency and ownership.
- Ability to work effectively with production, quality, supply chain, and engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
- 2–5 years of experience in production expediting, quality support, and aerospace manufacturing.
- Prior experience supporting FAA-regulated or AS9100-certified production operations.
- Background in lean manufacturing or continuous improvement initiatives a plus.
- Knowledge of outside processing workflows (plating, NDT, heat treat, etc.).
Skills Required
- Familiarity with aerospace or high-reliability manufacturing environments
- Strong communication skills to coordinate across departments
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel
- Understanding of AS9100, FAA regulatory requirements
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and specifications
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work with production, quality, supply chain, and engineering teams
- 2-5 years of experience in production expediting or quality support
- Prior experience in FAA-regulated or AS9100-certified operations
- Background in lean manufacturing initiatives
- Knowledge of outside processing workflows
HEICO Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about HEICO and has not been reviewed or approved by HEICO.
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Retirement Support — The company maintains a long‑standing 401(k) program with company matching available to nearly all U.S. employees, with matches sometimes delivered in company stock. Official materials indicate broad participation and subsidiary‑level match structures.
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Flexible Benefits — The package spans medical, dental, vision, HSAs/FSAs, life and disability coverage, PTO and holidays, tuition reimbursement, an EAP, and various discounts, with multiple plan choices. Eligibility and specifics can differ by subsidiary.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness programs such as health fairs, screenings, flu shots, and on‑site classes appear alongside fitness, retail, and entertainment discounts. These offerings complement core coverage and support day‑to‑day wellbeing.
HEICO Insights
What We Do
HEICO Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of aerospace, defense, and electronics related products and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Flight Support Group (FSG/HEICO Aerospace) and Electronic Technologies Group (ETG). HEICO Aerospace offers jet engine and aircraft component replacement parts. It also involves in manufacturing specialty aircraft/defense related parts; offering thermal insulation blankets primarily for aerospace, defense, and commercial applications; subcontracting for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs); providing specialty parts as a subcontractor for aerospace and industrial OEMs, and the United States government. In addition, this segment distributes hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and electro-mechanical components for the aviation markets.
