Advanced Quality Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-21
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Quality Engineering
If you are looking for a role that blends quality leadership, structured project delivery, and real impact in the automotive supply chain, then the Advanced Quality Engineer position is a standout opportunity. As an Advanced Quality Engineer, you will coordinate APQP activity across new product introductions, drive BEON/PPAP release status, and help ensure launch targets are met with confidence. This is an ideal next step if your strengths include problem:solving, cross:functional collaboration, and turning complex requirements into clear action for teams on the ground.
WhatYou Will Do
- Coordinate APQP activities across all new product introductions and oversee BEON/PPAP release status for customer:released products.
- Control and track APQP documents through PPAP approval for new program launches to meet customer submission dates.
- Execute PPAP submissions and approvals for customer and internal engineering changes.
- Create monthly PPAP/BEON status reports for management and upscale any delays affecting submission targets.
- Own project quality across project phases, acting as a key point of contact for customer quality concerns.
- Support D/PFMEA and DFM reviews, root cause analysis, and lesson:learned workshops to drive continuous improvement.
- Significant experience in medium:volume manufacturing, ideally within automotive, with strong APQP and PPAP/BEON exposure.
- Demonstrable problem:solving capability, including methods such as 8D, PPS, and advanced root cause analysis.
- Competent knowledge of Automotive quality expectations, including IMDS understanding.
- Experience dealing with customers and suppliers, with strong communication and stakeholder management.
- IAFT 16949 auditing experience is essential (VDA experience is a beneficial plus).
In this Advanced Quality Engineer role, the focus is delivering world:class quality outcomes in a highly competitive, technology:driven automotive environment. The company builds high:performance exterior lighting products for premium car makers, and your work will directly support transformation, safer launches, and stronger supplier quality through effective quality championing and run:at:rate readiness.
Location:
The role is based in Buckingham, with on:site working aligned to project and customer needs within manufacturing operations.
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