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:
o Optional 9 day fortnight
o TOIL
o Flexible working hours
o 1pm finish on a Friday
o Annual bonus
o Casual dress
o 25 days holiday
o Christmas shut down.
o Option to buy or sell holiday.
o Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
o Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
o 4 x annual salary life cover