Tool Tester Program Jobs in Tennessee (NOW HIRING)

Summary:
Are you a hands-on leader who takes pride in precision, quality, and building high-performing teams? Our Assembly Inspection Supervisor plays a key role in ensuring the mechanical and electromechanical assemblies we build meet the highest standards of safety, reliability, and workmanship. This is your opportunity to lead a team of skilled inspectors, collaborate across departments, and directly influence the quality of products delivered to our customers.
What You'll Be Doing
In this dynamic role, you'll lead the charge in driving world-class inspection excellence across assembly operations. You'll guide a team of skilled inspectors through daily in-process, final, and hold-point inspections-balancing production flow with unwavering compliance. Your expertise in drawings, GD&T, torque specifications, and acceptance standards will empower the team to maintain consistency, precision, and top-tier workmanship.
You'll be hands-on in ensuring inspections are executed flawlessly. From verifying torque tool calibration to overseeing precise dimensional checks with calipers, micrometers, and height gauges, you'll uphold the integrity of every component. You'll validate GD&T features such as flatness, perpendicularity, and concentricity, while ensuring complete traceability and proper assembly progression throughout each build stage. Your oversight keeps every detail aligned-cleanliness, fastener installation, adhesives, fit-up, and more.
Quality and documentation excellence will be at the heart of your leadership. You'll champion accurate inspection records, ensure thorough documentation of nonconformances, and review inspection data before work progresses. By promoting proper tool care and calibration practices, you'll help sustain a high-performance inspection environment.
We'd Love to Hear from Candidates with:
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE/NRC "Q" Clearance within one year of hire.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Technical degree, military technical experience, or a mechanical/manufacturing/quality apprenticeship preferred.
• Experience performing assembly or in-process inspections in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong ability to read engineering drawings, GD&T symbols, and assembly specifications.
• Hands-on experience with torque tools, precision measurement instruments, and inspection documentation systems.
• Leadership, mentoring, or supervisory experience is a plus.
A Successful Candidate Brings:
• Strong understanding of GD&T principles.
• Knowledge of mechanical assembly processes, fasteners, torque sequences, and workmanship standards.
• Familiarity with nonconformance documentation and inspection plans.
Pay
Estimated Starting Base Salary Range: $76,010 - $126,683. This position is Bonus eligible. Centrus considers several factors when extending job offers, including but not limited to candidates' key skills, relevant work experience, and education/training/certifications. While the posted range reflects the anticipated hiring range for this position, compensation above the range may be considered for candidates with exceptional qualifications and directly relevant experience.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
This position will require a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.
Centrus Energy and all subsidiaries shall abide by the applicable legal requirements. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
This position requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain a Q security clearance. Candidates for positions requiring a security clearance are required to be tested for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR 707.4 prior to an offer of employment being made. In addition, once employed, employees will become part of a random drug testing program and may also be tested in the event of any incident causing injury or causing damage to property, or if it is determined that there is a reasonable suspicion the employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This position will require preemployment background check on the part of the Company and in order to receive a Q security clearance, a background investigation by the Federal government. Subsequent Federal government reinvestigations may be required.
Centrus Energy Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer