Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Salary

Circa £50,000 depending on experience

3 days minimum per week on-site due to workload classification

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

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 applied across all Projects. Provide support and advice on all aspects of quality within UK Manufacturing. Identify and implement sustainable improvements to existing methods and processes.

Identify and reduce project risk or problem areas / issues associated with process application, effectiveness or compliance.

The role also involves management of SAP non-conformances and analysis of defect data and acting on this data to undertake problem-solving investigations identifying defect root cause and corrective action implementation.

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

• Support and advice on all aspects of quality within Manufacturing UK; apply quality expertise to critical business issues to support business excellence, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
• Provide quality assurance assistance to Manufacturing UK in support of manufacturing excellence. Including development and delivery of quality awareness and other training.
• Supporting Manufacturing UK on all programmes to achieve cost, time and quality targets.
• Provide appropriate level of support to improve the effectivity of processes within the Company Business Management System and ensure they are correctly tailored for Manufacturing UK.
• 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

• Ideally qualified to minimum HNC/HND in relevant subject.
• Quality professional, experienced in process-based integrated management systems & business improvement in an engineering / manufacturing environment.
• Experience using both risk management and practical problem solving tools e.g. 8D, 5Y, PFMEA etc.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)
• Quality Auditing experience
• Knowledge and experience of International standards such as…