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Position Summary

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to 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. 

As a member of our team, you are instrumental in fulfilling our mission: 'Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow.' Pursuing a career at Parker presents unlimited opportunities for both professional and personal development. Working with some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, your contributions will be pivotal in developing innovative technologies and products, significantly contributing to Parker's goal of addressing the world's most pressing engineering challenges. At Parker, our team members belong, matter and make a difference. 

Military Flight Controls Division Supporting aircraft worldwide, Parker Aerospace's Military Flight Controls Division (MFCD) provides primary and secondary flight control systems that make flight possible. Tested, proven and trusted in commercial and military applications for decades, MFCD provides precise position-control actuation solutions for military aircraft across the United States and with foreign partners. The division's JetPipe electrohydraulic servovalve (EHSV) technology is used across commercial and military aircraft around the world. Headquartered in Irvine, California, the Military Flight Controls Division is the global leader in fly-by-wire flight control systems and electrohydraulic products and offers the world's most advanced motor design capabilities for flight controls.

Position Summary

As a Senior CMM Programmer, you will serve as the site's definitive technical authority on advanced metrology and automated Zeiss Calypso programming, tooling verification, and advanced component validation. You will champion the metrology strategy for production initiatives, optimize our existing program library, and validate the shop floor fixtures that allow our production technicians to autonomously on quality at the source.

Responsibilities

• Drive Metrology Excellence: Architect, validate, and optimize highly sophisticated, CMM automated inspection programs using Zeiss Calypso for ultra-precision military aerospace hardware and assemblies. Catalog and standardize the library of CMM programs, and ensure configuration control and zero redundant programming work.
• Champion Inspection Mentorship: Serve as the subject matter expert to train, coach, and technically elevate junior programmers and mechanical inspectors in advanced probing techniques and GD&T execution.
• Lead In-Sourcing Validations: Serve as the lead technical resource for dimensional validation and AS9102 First Articles on complex machined parts being brought back in-house.
• Validate Floor Fixtures: Validate inspection jigs and go/no-go fixtures, directly reducing reliance on CMM cycles and pushing quality verification to the floor techs.
• Hold Customer Trust: Achieve full Delegated Quality Representative (DQR) status, serving as the final authorized signature for customer product release and source-delegated buyoffs.
• Drive Root Cause Analysis: Partner with Quality Engineering to lead technical metrology evaluations to determine the root cause of component nonconformances, hardware escapes, and customer returns.
• Simplify Complex Designs: Deconstruct highly complex engineering models, hydraulic schematics, and geometric specifications to design stable, innovative physical measurement setups from scratch.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner directly with Manufacturing, Engineering, and external customer or government source auditors to clarify drawing intent and witness special hardware processes.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience: High school diploma or GED with 8+ years of dedicated aerospace precision inspection and master-level CMM programming experience.
• Leadership Track Record: Proven background training technical peers, stepping up as an autonomous project owner, and instilling a high-standard learning culture.
• Software Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in advanced Zeiss Calypso programming and CAD translation architectures.
• Technical Acumen: Total mastery of complex blueprint interpretation, hydraulic/electronic schematics, and advanced GD&T application per ASME Y14.5 standards.
• Physical Capabilities: Ability to lift and maneuver parts or equipment weighing up to 50 lbs unassisted.

Preferred Experience

• Power-user status within aerospace manufacturing and tracking software, specifically Net-Inspect and Solumina.
• Complementary programming expertise in PC-DMIS.
• ASQ Certified Quality Inspector (CQI).
• Direct experience programming and setting up inspections specifically for complex electrohydraulic flight control actuators, servo valves, or multi-axis machined parts.

Conditions of Employment

This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.

Pay, Benefits, Work Schedule

Competitive Compensation

• Pay Range:  36.8/hr to 54.95/hr
• Participation in Annual Incentive Program

Benefit & Retirement Plans 

Parker offers competitive benefit programs, including:

• Comprehensive coverage for medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, voluntary optional life, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance and critical illness insurance with competitive premium cost. 
• 401(k) Plan with company matching contributions at 100% of the first 5% of pay.
• Company provided defined-contribution retirement plan with annual contribution equal to 3% of pay.
• Career development and tuition reimbursement.
• Other benefits including paid parental leave, short and long-term disability programs, adoption assistance, a Care.com membership and financial planning assistance are provided at no cost to you.
• Supplemental benefit programs including identity protection, legal protection, and pet wellness are available at competitive rates.
• Paid Time Off and Company-Paid Holidays.
   

Equal Employment Opportunity

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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Drug Tests

Drug-Free Workplace
In accordance with Parker's policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.