Overview
**** Defence Supplier Quality Engineer ****
Seeking an Defence Supplier Quality Engineer full-time (37.5 hours per week) for 9 weeks near Milton Keynes, England.
Flexible working options, including 4-day week.
Job Summary
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Supplier Quality Engineer to support a range of projects across our customers’ organisation for a 9 week period.
The role will play a critical part in ensuring that quality standards are consistently met, maintained, and improved throughout the project lifecycle. The successful candidate will act as a key point of contact for all quality-related matters, working closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, manufacturing, and project management. You will be responsible for identifying, managing, and resolving quality issues, ensuring compliance with internal procedures and external standards. This is a dynamic position requiring the ability to manage competing priorities, influence stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
Job Responsibility
- Conduct QA activities during initial acquisition and programme execution in accordance with company processes and procedures
- Provide independent oversight on assigned programmes to ensure compliance with all required external standards, internal command media and contractual requirements
- Participate in bid and programme Gate Reviews to assist the teams in achieving mission success
- Work with multiple teams to assure Supplier Quality, including supplier on-boarding activities and ongoing supplier performance management, and ensuring projects complete quarterly assessments of critical suppliers
- Assist with the flow down of QA requirements to suppliers
- Support Risk and Opportunity Management activities on bids and programmes
- Support sub-contract management activities during programme execution
- Develop and document any programme-specific processes required
- Ensure customer deliverables are of acceptable quality and meet all required standards and contractual requirements
- Liaise with customers and other third parties including suppliers regarding all aspects of Mission and Quality Assurance for assigned projects
- Provide QA reports on a weekly and as-required basis, escalating significant issues or risks to the Programme Manager and the Mission Assurance Manager
- Collect, interpret and present QA metrics to the Programme Manager, Mission Assurance Manager and the Technical Director to support the development of process improvement initiatives
- Follow up audits to validate the resolution of non-conformities and findings raised
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Quality Assurance experience, ideally in a systems engineering environment
- Experience of UK MOD assurance requirements and working practices
- Track record of delivering to identified Quality Assurance requirements
- Experience of leading quality improvement activities, including lessons learnt, root cause analysis
- Experience of risk identification, reporting and management
- A good understanding of systems engineering principles and methodologies
- Sound working knowledge of Defence engineering standards and working practices
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