Product Introduction Quality Assurance Engineer

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a New Product Introduction (NPI) Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Product Assurance team as they provide professional quality support to the Manufacturing team in the UK across all NPI Programs.

Salary
:
Circa £50,000 depending on experience

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

Security Clearance
:
British Citizen. 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.

• 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

You will provide an independent visibility and assurance that manufacturing and related processes are correctly applied across all NPI Programs. You will provide support and advice on all aspects of quality within New Product Introduction. You will provide support in the identification and implementation of sustainable process improvements to existing methods and processes. You will support Manufacturing in the identification and reduction of project risk or problem areas / issues associated with process application, process effectiveness or compliance across all NPI programs.

Reporting to the Product Assurance Manager, responsibilities include the following activities:

• Provision of professional support and advice on all aspects of quality within NPI Manufacturing UK; apply quality expertise to critical business issues to support business excellence, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
• Provision of quality assurance assistance to NPI Manufacturing UK in support of manufacturing excellence including development and delivery of quality awareness and other process and quality-related training.
• Supporting Manufacturing UK on all NPI programmes to achieve cost, time and quality targets. Assessing and controlling the product assurance quality processes and the resulting outputs.
• Assuring to and implemented in Company production programmes, and providing the appropriate level of support to improve the effectivity of processes used by the Company Business Management System is correctly tailored within NPI
• Confirm through a programme of Independent assessments and audits that processes and quality requirements are being successfully implemented, applied, and improved. Provide reports to Management that identifies the outcome of audits and issues. Monitor and facilitate the progression of any improvements from audit activities and the timely closure of identified issues.
• Maintaining strong links with Quality Assurance colleagues across MBDA (UK and Overseas) to enable the dissemination and achievement of Quality Objectives within NPI Manufacturing UK.
• Work with Product Assurance Managers and other functions to define appropriate risk reduction strategies/action plans
• Provide advice and help in the use of SAP as the non-conformance management tool and identify SAP improvement with respect to the Quality Module.
• Facilitation and/or support to various levels of Non-Conformance Review Panels
• Analysis of non-conformance defect data and acting on this data to undertake problem solving investigations identifying defect root cause and corrective action implementation.
• Assure compliance to the company BMS…