Quality Assurance Manager

Job Description

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a quality assurance engineering professional to join the newly formed Transfer of Technology Programme, within CAMM, Missiles and Systems.

Salary: Circa £60,000 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: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary

• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%

• 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 play a pivotal role in the company’s largest ever export contract. The successful candidate will be leading quality assurance activities for the rapidly developing Transfer of Technology venture.

• To become a senior leader within the growing Transfer of Technology quality team at MBDA. Responsible for a team of Quality Assurance Engineers supporting various product transfer programmes (Reporting to the Head of Quality Assurance – Transfer of Technology)

• Generation and review of bids and resource estimates to support new business.

• Define new quality processes and plans for the exciting new business area of Transfer of Technology.

• Be a trusted advisor and offer subject matter expertise in support of phase gates and product certification for our Transfer of Technology partners.

• Plan and facilitate quality focused training to increase quality process awareness.

• Lead Industrial Validation activities from a quality assurance perspective.

• Proactively identify, communicate and mitigate quality NC’s and risks for our new international manufacturing partners.

What we are looking for from you:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to integrate into a wide network, across many internal business areas and external partners.

• Experienced quality professionals, preferably within operations or industrial validation.

• Excellent technical product knowledge, ideally in manufacturing and the ability to flow down knowledge and key activities to third parties.

• Ability to identify risks and critical issues and drive forward suitable mitigation solutions with the aim of reducing rework and increasing customer satisfaction.

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

• Ideally, minimum HNC/HND in Engineering would be desirable.

• Ability to lead a team of Quality Engineers as well as influencing the wider quality network supporting the programme.

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity, Disability and more…

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

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