Job summary

The Quality Engineer will be responsible for leading all quality-related activity and ensuring compliance with internal processes and external requirements within their Team, sharing best practice & improvements to drive a culture of quality.

Key skills required for this role

Quality / Quality Technician / Quality Engineer / ISO9001

Important

All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance and be a sole British national.

Job description

Working: This role offers hybrid working and flexible working opportunities

The Quality Engineer will be responsible for leading all quality-related activity and ensuring compliance with internal processes and external requirements within their 'Integrated Project Team', sharing best practice & improvements to drive a culture of quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and co-ordinate investigations arising from Quality issues through to their documented conclusion, with supporting root cause analysis and solutions to prevent re-occurrence
• Following audits, proactively ensure corrective and preventive actions are followed up to completion.
• Create, collect, analyze and maintain quality performance metrics. Report results to broader company population.
• Interface with customer and government quality representatives regarding audits, corrective actions, acceptance testing, and other quality matters.
• Perform analyses of quality program requirements and prepare responsive quality plans, procedures, schedules ensure optimum quality support and compliance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that quality standards are met throughout the product lifecycle.
• Providing guidance to team members on quality procedures and best practices.
• Support of external Quality audits, assessments and visits by customers and authorities
• To ensure effective and timely issue of audit reports, supporting evidence and KPI's for the quality/compliance function
• Represent quality at program meetings & reviews
• Report to programs on quality issues, trends and losses.
• To provide guidance with the preparation and certification of product release documentation.
• Support in the generation of First Article Reports internally as well as any associated customer facing activities for product verification.
• Support customer or supplier Source Inspection or Delegate Product Review Verification activities
• Facilitation of concession applications and engineering change requests
• Participate in Engineering Design Project reviews and auditing these projects to ensure compliance to internal QMS requirements
• Participate in Contract Reviews and New Business Proposal launches
• To encourage development and improvement in our business processes and promote a culture of quality awareness.
• Develop and support of a business improvement culture and associated activities e.g. process mapping, lean, continuous improvements etc.
• Ensure the departmental objectives are achieved in line with the job holders individual objectives
• There may be additional activities to perform from time to time in order to maximise the contribution to the teams goals and objectives

Skills, Qualification and Experience

• Must have an understanding in root cause analysis
• Proficient in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), ERP systems, Minitab and other Quality assurance tools.
• Experience within Quality Engineering
• Experience with electronic components, PCBAs, and/or batteries is preferred.
• Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous
• Experience in the Naval / Maritime domain would be advantageous.

Company overview:

• Want to work for a successful business, who develop advanced specialist systems to deliver warfighting edge in the modern maritime and underwater battlespace?
• The company have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!
• Some company benefits are:
  • Optional 9 day fortnight
  • TOIL
  • Flexible working hours
  • 1pm finish on a Friday
  • Annual bonus
  • Casual dress
  • 25 days holiday
  • Christmas shut down.
  • Option to buy or sell holiday.
  • Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
  • Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
  • 4 x annual salary life cover