Product Assurance Engineer - 6 month contract - Alton
Our client is looking for an experienced Engineer to join the Product Assurance team within their Space Business Unit. Ideally with a background in Product Assurance, you will have strong and broad engineering knowledge. Good communications skills are essential, and you will have a proven ability in stakeholder management, both internal and external, customer and supplier. Attention to detail and a proactive approach are critical to this role.
Your Experience:
Product assurance experience (ECSS and/or NASA standards would be an advantage)
Ability to understand, tailor and communicate engineering processes
Problem solving - strong mind-set and knowledge of processes/tools
Support to planning and monitoring of test and verification campaigns
Design and development phases of products (hardware, software and/or service)
Non-Conformance Management
Involvement in delivery of complex systems
Involvement in Design Reviews
Experience of systems deployed in challenging/unique environments
Knowledge of EEE parts and/or RAMS
What will you be doing?
Define (in conjunction with the project and Product Integrity teams) product assurance and quality requirements for projects.
Translate the requirements into a specific, pragmatic approach for the project.
Monitor the implementation of product assurance measures during the design, manufacturing, integration, test and trials phases of the programme.
Audit and monitor the quality management approach of key suppliers.
Support the component & material procurement/selection process against the space environment requirements.
Support the identification of the qualification requirements and the qualification plan authoring for the hardware design.
Chair non-conformance investigations.
Ensure that technical analyses are reviewed for engineering quality.
Provide support to test campaigns.
Report on activities to the project manager and engineering manager - in support of monitoring engineering performance metrics.
Ensure that key engineering reviews (eg manufacturing readiness reviews, test review boards) are effective.
Perform key inspections of components, assemblies and facilities.
Delegate to/mentor engineers in PA/QA tasks where required.