Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Overview

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities. GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries, we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

Based in our East Cowes facilities here on the Isle of Wight, and reporting into the Chief Manufacturing Engineer, the Quality Engineer will be the main customer point of contact for quality, providing quality assurance support to all aspects of the business processes and procedures across both our Defence and Civil aerospace business lines. This position is open to both experienced candidates and candidates looking to move into, and develop in, Quality Engineering / Manufacturing Engineering Quality. Training, education and mentoring are available as required for the successful candidate. You will be responsible for the identification and documenting of customer and regulatory product and process requirements, ensuring that procedures, plans and processes are established and maintained in order to meet those requirements consistently without deviation. The successful candidate should be flexible for ad-hoc national and international travel on a potential quarterly basis depending on customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Work in accordance with health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all personnel and visitors is maintained at the highest level.
• Along with Manufacturing Engineers, develop the strategy and the metrics for the functional performance of the products and manufacturing processes.
• Create and/or support the creation of comprehensive quality plans.
• Provide advice and guidance on quality issues/matters to all areas of the business.
• Support the implementation of corrective and preventative actions and the development of both lean and continual improvement activities.
• Review and evaluate quality data to identify process improvement opportunities within the company processes and procedures creating corrective/preventive action plans to address failures.
• Support regular meetings with customers and representatives from appropriate departments to establish action plans for improving build quality.

Job Qualifications

Suitable candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

Essential

• Demonstrable experience within either Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, or any other relevant disciplines gained within an aerospace (or similar) production environment
• Willing and able to be customer-facing
• Demonstrable experience in driving quality and/or process improvements
• Willingness and ability for national and potentially international travel (when required)

Desirable

• Experience in performing audits
• A understanding of APQP tools (advanced product quality planning) – AS9145
• A HNC qualification or equivalent
• Previous experience using a MRP or ERP System
• Experience working with AS9100 Lead Auditor standard
• Green Belt Certified

We are looking for people who want to make a difference, with the drive and passion to become the best in their field. The Quality Engineer will be a data-driven individual with the ability to work with key stakeholders across all levels of the business, with strong communication, problem solving and presentation skills, and the ability to work to tight deadlines and drive continuous improvement.

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that is at the cutting edge of our industry and committed to pushing the boundaries further, with some of the best training on offer in the industry.

A Great Place to Work, A Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.

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