Senior Product Assurance Engineer (Quality Manager)

Senior Product Assurance Engineer (Quality Manager)

• Quality; Assurance; Process; Audit; ISO9001; AS9100

• Space; Aerospace; Defence; Security; MOD; Engineering; Manufacturing;

• Southampton (hybrid working)

• £40,000 - £50,000 + excellent benefits

We have a fantastic new opportunity for a Senior Product Assurance Engineer (Quality Manager) with a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. This role provides you with the opportunity to work on meaningful and high-calibre projects alongside leading engineers and business professionals within an established, award-winning company.

Working as part of the Southampton Quality team responsible for Product Assurance tasks you will cover all aspects of product assurance; ensuring product quality and the integrity of our design and manufacturing processes, working closely with Project Managers, Customers, Design/Development teams, Operations and Purchasing/ Suppliers.

What you will do

• Taking a lead Quality Assurance role in a key project.

• Product Assurance support to Projects. Ensure all customer requirements are satisfied by effective assurance planning and implementation.

• Management of Project Quality topics e.g. write Assurance plans, review product build paperwork and authorise final release certificates of conformance (CofC), concessions, and failure analysis.

• Review and approval of engineering changes.

• Non-conformance management (failure analysis, root cause corrective and preventative actions) recording progress on SAP, and track concessions.

• Support Projects and Design to resolve Quality Assurance issues, including reports and presentations to management and cross functional teams.

• Build and maintain effective contacts with a range of people across the Business.

• Able to communicate effectively with technical specialists and customers.

• Generate monthly status reports for QA Management. Be able to present information to Projects, Customer End Users or Suppliers as appropriate.

• Undertake 2-3 internal Quality audits per year.

What we are looking for

• Educated to HND level or equivalent in relevant science or engineering subject.

• Effective communicator, both verbal and written, with all levels of the business and customers.

• Working knowledge of applying quality standards : ISO-9001 (Preferably AS-9100).

• Experience in a relevant manufacturing based industry (for example - electronics, semiconductor, optical packaging, medical, automotive, Space or defence).

• Practical experience working in a Quality Assurance / Project assurance discipline within an engineering design and/or manufacturing environment.

Desirable

• Product Assurance work for Space projects.

• Familiar with SAP.

• Familiar with configuration management.

• Familiar with Quality tools and techniques - (D)FMEA, Root cause analysis e.g. 8D, 5-Whys, statistical techniques.