An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer to join our growing team, focusing on New Product Introduction (NPI) across our UK & international Supply Chain.
Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on experience.
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site, due to workload classification.
Security Clearance: British or a Dual UK 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.
Benefits
- 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 with enhancements for paternity, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments.
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more.
- Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.
The opportunity
As a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, you will have the ability to further develop as a quality professional, deploying the latest quality tools and techniques internationally and ensuring future continuity in the supply chain. You will be a key interface for applicable suppliers supporting the programme from a quality perspective, developing and implementing the supplier quality strategy, establishing and maintaining supplier quality requirements, and assuring the evolution of the supplier’s product and processes. This role will also involve international travel, conducting proactive supplier quality surveillance throughout the full lifecycle of the programme, and supporting the identification and reduction of project risk or problem areas associated with process application, process effectiveness, and compliance across the applicable supply chain.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and implement supplier quality strategy.
Establish and maintain supplier quality requirements.
Assure product and process evolution of suppliers.
Conduct international travel and proactive supplier quality surveillance.
Identify and reduce project risk or problem areas across the supply chain.
Support delivery of assured, complex weapons systems to internal and external customers.
Qualifications
- Engineer with supply chain or manufacturing experience (ideally defence, automotive or aerospace).
- Quality professional experienced in process-based integrated management systems and business improvement within engineering/manufacturing/supply chain environments.
- Strong NPI & product development experience.
- APQP / PPAP or similar experience using product development frameworks.
- Ability to review and influence DFMEA / PFMEA.
- Understanding of product validation lifecycles.
- Experienced in conducting quality audits & surveillance.
- Familiarity with change control processes.
- Experience in supplier quality tools & processes.
- Experience with quality management systems, techniques and processes.
- Demonstrates supplier quality management skills.
- Demonstrates strong cross-functional and soft skills.
- Comfortable with travel to supplier sites.
- Special process knowledge.
- Experience with First Article Inspection Requirements – AS9102.
- Knowledge of key external standards – EN/AS9100.
- Experienced in quality tools & techniques (8D, Six Sigma, DMAIC, Kaizen).
- Strong experience in non-conformance management & leadership of quality investigations.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Good planning and organising skills to ensure multiple tasks are prioritised and monitored to deliver set objectives.
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organisation.
- Recognise and understand regulatory and certification requirements, and respond to them.
- Ideally qualified as a minimum to HND or HNC.
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