Quality Assurance Engineer
Job Description
The Opportunity:
An opportunity has arisen for a Quality professional to join the Quality Assurance Programmes team. In this role, your primary responsibility will be to provide Quality Assurance support to the manufacturing team to deliver production ramp up and offload, while ensuring adherence to our customer requirements. If you wish to take on a fresh challenge, then come and join our team as we commence our journey through the series production.
Ensure effective management of non-conformances across the Project including supporting engineering teams with defect investigations. Provide non-conformance data analysis and summary reports into engineering/senior management and customer reviews.
Facilitate delivery of the Product Life Cycle Gate review process, ensuring gates are undertaken to schedule, and timely closure of actions.
Certify and release product to our customer in accordance with the contractual requirements.
Identify and share opportunities for business improvement through participation in Learning Reviews.
Undertake root cause analysis of critical non-conformances using industry wide problem-solving methods.
Identify Quality issues/risks relating to potential risks for project milestone achievement, and for quality of deliverables. Identify and offer potential mitigation solutions.
Provide an independent quality assurance view of project compliance to BMS processes and contractual requirements.
Participate in the Project Quality network to report and share the quality assurance status.
Review and maintain contractual quality planning documentation.
Maintain regular dialogue with the Centre of Excellences to provide assurance in the deliverables to project.
Support the project team in developing any local processes and delivery of training.What we're looking for from you:
Preferably HND educated, or experience in Engineering and Quality Management.
Practitioner of current QA problem solving methods (8D, Six Sigma, DMAIC, etc.)
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)
Knowledge of the Quality Tools and an understanding of non-conformance management using SAP would be an advantage
Excellent interpersonal skills are essential and able to influence others in a collaborative way.
Highly self-motivated, and demonstrate a determination and persistence to deliver results despite obstacles and setbacks.Overview:
Position - Quality Assurance Engineer – Permanent
Location – Stevenage (UK and International Travel required)
Salary - £55k
Keywords: Quality Assurance Engineer, non-conformance, Product Life Cycle, 8D, Six Sigma, DMAIC, SAP, Quality Management.
Only apply for this role if you currently hold the specific Government Security Clearance or are eligible for Government Security Clearance.
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to British Citizens, can accept dual nationals with British Citizenship. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.
This is a Permanent Role