Safety Quality Engineer

We are Ultra Precision Control Systems Ultra PCS is a leading developer of mission and safety critical equipment in the defence and aerospace industry. Our team of experts are at the heart of our success, which is why we are dedicated to fostering a safe working environment and a positive culture where every staff member feels valued and respected. We solve our customers' problems, providing engineering solutions to safety and mission critical challenges in the air and on the ground.

Our solutions can be found in the latest military aircraft and vehicles, in civil aircraft, and in unmanned vehicles. We help to ensure our customers get to where they need to be safely, achieve their objectives and keep on going back.

Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It's the 'innovating' and 'empowering' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.

We are looking for a Safety Quality Engineer to join PCS's Safety Function. The PCS Safety function is responsible for ensuring the effectiveness and fulfilment of PCS's Quality Policy, which is to comply fully in the conduct of the Company's business with all applicable regulatory and customer required specifications, and to maintain effective Safety Management and Quality Management Systems, working in partnership with the Compliance Monitoring, Operations and Engineering teams to ensure that products and processes conform to applicable standards and specifications, and the incidence and costs of quality non-conformances are constantly monitored and improved, while maintaining the highest practicable standards of manufacturing productivity and efficiency.

• Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements such as:
  Support with facilitating hazard identification, risk assessment and management;
  Monitor the implementation of actions taken to mitigate risks, as listed in the MOEs & POE, unless action follow-up is addressed by the compliance monitoring function;
  Support with the provision of periodic reports on safety performance to the Safety Action Group (SAG) and Safety Review Board (SRB);
  Ensure the maintenance of safety management documentation;
  Ensure that required safety training is conducted and meets acceptable standards;
  Support with the provision of advice on safety matters;
  Ensure the initiation and follow-up of internal occurrence investigations.
• Support the Safety Management function by engaging in multi-function, multi-site groups that develop company directives, policies, procedures, processes, procedures and metrics to assure program, contract, customer, regulatory requirements, international standards and working agreements are deployed.
• Support stakeholders in analysis of safety related process data, metrics, models and flows to identify root cause of complex problems and development and implementation of preventative or corrective actions.
• Conduct research, compile and analyse performance reports and process control statistics to continuously improve safety process capability.
• Support safety elements for quality source selection via approved processes and process capability assessments of suppliers' ability to meet program quality requirements and support business decisions.
• Support the development of the Safety audit scope, schedule, and plans to determine compliance with regulator/customer safety management system expectations, configuration assurance, related business, regulatory and customer requirements, and report results…