A professional who coordinates activities to evaluate and resolve engineering-related production problems encountered in assigned area of aircraft manufacturing facility. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews production schedules, engineering specifications, orders, and related information to maintain current knowledge of manufacturing methods, procedures, and activities in assigned area.
• Confers with quality control, material, manufacturing, and other department personnel to provide technical support.
• Interprets engineering drawings and facilitates correction of errors on drawings and documents identified during manufacturing operations.
• Investigates reports of defective, damaged, or malfunctioning parts, assemblies, equipment, or systems to determine nature and scope of problem.
• Examines, measures, inspects, or tests defective part for conformance to engineering design drawings or blueprint specifications, using precision measuring and testing instruments, devices, and equipment.
• Consults with project engineers to obtain specialized information.
• Evaluates findings to formulate corrective action plan and coordinates implementation of plan.
• Maintains records or oversees recording of information by others to ensure engineering drawings and documents are current and that engineering-related production problems and resolutions are documented.
• Serves as member of material review board to determine disposition of defective or damaged parts.
• May specialize in investigating and resolving tooling problems and be designated Tool Liaison.