Stevenage
This opportunity provides the chance to work within a new dynamic quality team, your primary responsibility will be to provide Quality Assurance support to the supply chain team to deliver production hardware, 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!
Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days per week on-site or at suppliers (minimum)
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
What we can offer you:
* Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
* Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
* Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
* Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
* Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
* Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
* Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more...
The opportunity:
An opportunity has arisen for an Industrial Engineering Engineer professional to join the ISP Procurement team supporting a variety of Mechanical suppliers.
* Ensure effective management of supplier non-conformances across supporting manufacturing teams with defect investigations.
* Ensure comprehensive Root Cause Analysis is carried out using industry wide problem solving methods.
* Ensure Supplier corrective actions are effective and validated, ideally at supplier location, to ensure future deliveries are protected from further escapes.
* Provide non-conformance data analysis and summary reports into engineering/senior management and customer reviews.
* Proactively Identify Quality issues/risks relating to potential risks for project milestone achievement, and for quality of deliverables. Identify and offer potential mitigation solutions.
* Support of Mechanical development projects ensuring compliance to Industrial Validation milestones.
* Conduct Quality audits/assessments in line with the surveillance plan and against the Suppliers contracted Quality requirements, reviewing the Supplier's corrective action progress, conducting product acceptance, with the aim of reducing project risk.
* Opportunity to identify process improvements to aid on time and on quality delivery of products during the product lifecycle.
* Work productively and positively with your colleagues across different functions to produce process improvements in the Quality, Supply Chain and Manufacturing domains.
* Provide manufacturing expertise and advice to internal functions regarding potential opportunities for improvement within the supply chain; e.g. Raising Design Problem Reports to reduce cost or quality risks in a part or assembly.
* Conduct source inspections in line with project requirements.
What we're looking for from you:
* HNC/HND in Mechanical Engineering
* Experienced quality professionals from regulated industries
* Proven experience of current QA problem solving and improvement methods (8D, RCA, DMAIC, etc.)
* Experience of both development and production lifecycles
* Mechanical - Ability to read and interpret GD&T features
* Review FAIRs in accordance with AS 9102
* Lead Auditor experience within a supply chain environment is preferable
* Experience/knowledge of Machining technologies is advantageous
* Strong analytical and organisational skills; ability to run reports in Excel, use SAP QM system, and document management tools
* Continuous improvement awareness and ability to use own initiative to deliver improvements
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