Senior Programme Quality Engineer

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At EDGE bold ideas are engineered into technologies that protect, improve and save lives.

Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, EDGE is a leading advanced technology group working at the forefront of defence and emerging technologies. Spanning more than 35 specialised companies and multiple centres of excellence, we are purpose-built to move fast. Free from heavy legacy processes, we give our people the autonomy, accountability, and agility to bring breakthrough technologies from concept to reality.

Based in Abu Dhabi, a globally connected hub at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, EDGE is home to a truly multicultural community where bold ideas thrive, and the future is shaped.

Together, we are shaping the future.

The Senior Programme Quality Engineer in HALCON is responsible for planning, coordinating, and assuring quality activities throughout the Programme lifecycle, ensuring that products, processes, and activities comply with applicable standards, customer, contractual, regulatory, and company requirements.

Acting as the designated quality focal point for the assigned Programme or scope, the Senior PQE provides independent quality oversight, supports Programme governance and decision-making, manages and communicates quality risks and non-conformances, promotes continual improvement, and coordinates quality activities across Programme Management, Engineering, Design for Advanced Manufacturing (DFAM), Manufacturing, Configuration Management, other Quality functions, and relevant interfacing functions.

The Senior PQE ensures that quality requirements are effectively embedded and verified across design, development, verification, validation, qualification, production, and acceptance activities, supporting the timely delivery of conforming products.

• Lead programme quality activities and act as the main point of contact for quality, audits, reporting, and customer quality matters.
• Oversee quality throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with company, customer, regulatory, and industry standards.
• Develop and maintain Quality Assurance and Quality Control Plans, supporting inspections, testing, product release, and production readiness.
• Review designs, technical documentation, test results, and deliverables to ensure quality, traceability, and compliance.
• Manage non-conformances, deviations, root cause investigations, and corrective actions to drive continuous improvement.
• Support audits, Stage Gate Reviews, configuration control, and programme quality reporting.
• Ensure compliance with safety and quality requirements during testing, qualification, and other high-risk activities.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, suppliers, and customers to resolve quality issues and improve performance.
• Monitor programme risks, quality metrics, and improvement initiatives, ensuring timely issue resolution.
• Mentor junior quality engineers and promote a strong culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautics, Systems, Electrical, Electronics & Mechatronics Engineering
• 8+ years of direct experience in Quality Engineering, Product Design Assurance, or Development Engineering, with demonstrated experience supporting product Design and Development activities within the Space/Aerospace/Satelites/Defence Manufacturing industry.
• A good understanding of System Engineering processes; working knowledge one or more of the following: guided missiles, drones, UAV, space satellites or complex multidisciplinary systems that include subsystems such as warheads/fuzes, seekers, propulsion/motors, avionics, actuators, Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) Assemblies
• Experience with testing tools and software test equipment
• Working knowledge of quality assurance techniques and methodologies (ISO 9001:2015 & AS9100D)
• Knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning and First Article Inspection tools and techniques
• Technical report writing

• Master’s degree in related Engineering discipline
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) certification
• Chartered Member of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)
• Certified Explosive worker (to Explosives Act 15 0f 2003 and Explosives Regulations of the OHS Act 85 of 1993), ISO 9001
• Lead Auditor certification.

Launched in November 2019, the UAE's EDGE is one of the world's leading advanced…