Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen for an Industrial Manufacturing Engineer professional to join the ISP Procurement team supporting a variety of Mechanical suppliers

Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national 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.

What we can offer you:

• 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 -enhancements are available for paternity leave, 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:

This opportunity provides the chance to work within a new dynamic quality team, your primary responsibility will be to provide Quality Assurance support to the supply chain team to deliver production hardware, while ensuring adherence to our Customer requirements. If you wish to take on a fresh challenge, then come and join our team as we commence our journey.

• Ensure effective management of supplier non-conformances across supporting manufacturing teams with defect investigations.

• Lead root cause analysis of supplier product non-conformances using industry wide problem solving methods.

• Ensure Supplier corrective actions are effective and validated, ideally at supplier location, to ensure future deliveries are protected from further escapes

• Provide non-conformance data analysis and summary reports into engineering/senior management and customer reviews.

• Proactively identify Quality issues/risks relating to potential risks for project milestone achievement, and for quality of deliverables. Identify and offer potential mitigation solutions.

• Participate in the Project Quality network to report and share the quality assurance status.

• Support Mechanical Engineering development projects ensuring compliance to Industrial Validation milestones

• Conduct Quality audits/assessments in line with the surveillance plan and against the Suppliers contracted Quality requirements, reviewing the Supplier's corrective action progress, conducting product acceptance, with the aim of reducing project risk

• Source inspection at the suppliers where required

• Opportunity to identify process improvements to aid on time and on quality delivery of products during the product lifecycle;

What we’re looking for from you:

• Ideally minimum HNC/HND in Engineering.

• Experienced quality professionals, preferably within Mechanical with a proven track record in Product Assurance.

• Practitioner of current QA problem solving and improvement methods (8D, RCA, DMAIC, etc.)

• Working knowledge of APQP, SPC, FMEA and MSA

• Good knowledge of the product lifecycle.

• Strong analytical skills; ability to run reports in Excel, use SAP QM system, and document management tools

• Continuous improvement awareness and ability to use own initiative to deliver improvements

• Experience in First Article Inspection Requirements – AS9102

• Knowledge of key external standards – EN/AS9100 & NADCAP

• Experienced in conducting Quality Audits

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