Coating Inspector Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

AMP United is a TURNKEY industrial preservation contractor specializing in large-scale surface preparation, coating application, containment, and scaffolding across the U.S. With personnel strategically located in Virginia, California, Washington, New Hampshire, and Hawaii, AMP United provides ship and industrial preservation services in support of NAVSEA, MARMC, SWRMC, and other DoD customers.
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Position Summary
The QA Inspector II performs quality inspections, documentation review, customer checkpoint coordination, deficiency tracking, rework verification, and inspection readiness support with limited supervision. This position verifies work against contract, customer, specification, procedure, and acceptance requirements while helping ensure inspection records are accurate, deficiencies are corrected, and project teams maintain quality discipline.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
• Perform quality inspections, documentation reviews, checkpoint support, and technical inspection activities aboard U.S Navy submarines and related shipyard facilities with limited supervision.
• Verify work against NAVSEA Standard Items, technical work documents, engineering drawings, specifications, work packages, procedures, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate customer checkpoints, hold points, government inspections, deficiency correction, and inspection readiness with production teams and customer representatives.
• Prepare and review inspection reports, OQE, photo documentation, test records, turnover packages, inspection logs and quality records.
• Track and document deficiencies, NCRs, CARs, rework items, customer comments, punch list items, and corrective action status.
• Verify correction action and completed rework prior to customer acceptance.
• Communicate inspection finding, quality concerns documentation deficiencies, and compliance issues to QA leadership and project management.
• Support internal audits, customer audits, root cause investigations, and corrective action implementation as assigned.
• Coordinate with supervisors, field crews, government representatives, subcontractors, Safety, and project personnel to resolve quality and inspection issues.
• Ensure inspection documentation accurately supports customer acceptance and project turnover requirements.
Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. Navy submarine repair, preservation, and quality inspection practices.
• Working knowledge of NAVSEA Standard Items, technical work documents, engineering drawings, specifications, acceptance criteria, and customer quality requirements.
• Ability to inspect work independently for compliance with contractual, technical, and customer requirements.
• Ability to identify workmanship deficiencies, nonconforming conditions, documentation discrepancies, and quality risks.
• Ability to communicate professionally with government representatives, customer inspectors, supervisors, project personnel, subcontractors, and field crews.
• Ability to maintain accurate inspection records, turnover documentation, OQE, and corrective action records.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office, Excel, email, inspection logs, and quality tracking tools.
• Ability to work safely aboard submarines, in dry docks, confined spaces, and active naval shipyard environments.
Training, Security, Education & Physical Requirements
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Prior quality inspection experience supporting U.S. Navy submarine maintenance, ship repair, preservation, coatings, structural, welding, fabrication, or government contracting required.
• Working knowledge of NAVSEA Standard Items, quality documentation, customer inspection requirements, turnover documentation, and government acceptance processes required.
• Relevant quality credentials such as NBPI, AMPP/NACE, AWS, CWI, or customer-required quality training preferred or required based on assigned work.
• Ability to wear required PPE and safely perform inspections aboard submarines, in dry docks, confined spaces, and industrial shipyard environments.
• Ability to work overtime, weekends, nights, or adjusted schedules as required to support submarine availabilities and customer schedules.