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