Quality Management Specialist

Quality Management Specialist (BBBH
18553) Birmingham, England

Our client, an international aerospace company working in the defence sector, is looking for an experienced Quality Management Specialist to join their team on a 12-month contract. The role is within the Engineering Function to support existing aircraft programmes.

Role
:
Quality Management Specialist
Location
:
Birmingham Airport
Hours
:
Mon-Thur Early & Late Shifts
IR35 Status
:
Inside
Hourly Rate
: tba
Contract
: 12 months
Security Clearance
:
This position requires the ability to obtain a UK SC for which the Government requires UK Citizenship.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participates in quality reviews of proposals, contracts, regulatory, program and customer requirements to develop quality assurance strategies, plans and tests for hardware and software products, processes and services ensuring early quality involvement in program development.
• Develop quality cost estimates based on Statements of Work (SOW) assigned.
• Develop and implement processes for determining, verifying and meeting customer SOW requirements, including:
  • Verification of product conformity to design.
  • Verification of compliance to customers’ requirements.
• Maintain processes, procedures and metrics to assure program, contract, customer and regulatory requirements are adhered to, including:
  • Validation of work instructions, tooling requirements, certifications, process standards, policies and procedures.
  • Identify and document discrepancies, segregate and control non-conforming items to prevent unintended use or delivery.
  • Verification of compliance to regulatory requirements.
  • Identify opportunities for corrective action while performing product or process verification.
  • Perform auditing, surveillance and monitoring against the approved audit plan; identify and document discrepancies and manage corrective actions to completion.
  • Segregate and control non-conforming items.
  • Perform preliminary review and disposition of non-conformance.
  • Identify repetitive or significant non-conformances and initiate requests for corrective action.
  • Conduct product review with customer during product or process verification.

Job Description:

• Participate with stakeholders in the analysis process of unfavorable process data, customer complaints and metric results to formulate mitigation plans utilizing the closed-loop preventive/ corrective action process, including:
• Represent quality in design reviews, with regard to routine verification of product conformance to design requirements, providing objective evidence of results.
• Perform benchmarking and other forms of analysis to ensure specified processes capability levels are achieved.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferably degree qualified or equivalent, but not essential.
• Sound working knowledge of MAA/CAA/EASA (Part 145/Part M/Part 21).
• Experience with data analytics.
• Familiar with Boeing process and procedures would be beneficial.
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated analytical/problem solving skills.
• Detail oriented.
• Demonstrated high level of dependability, interpersonal skills, initiative, adaptability, decision-making, and problem solving and organization skills.
• Customer focused ability to work independently or as part of a team.