Principal Product Assurance Engineer - Manufacturing

Principal Product Assurance Engineer - Manufacturing

Be among the first 25 applicants. Stevenage. An opportunity has arisen for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Quality Assurance Manufacturing team as they provide professional quality support to the Manufacturing team in the UK.

Salary:
Circa £50,000 depending on experience

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

Security Clearance:
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 quality assurance team provide advice and help in the use of SAP as the non-conformance management tool and identify improvement with respect to the Quality Module.

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 Manufacturing UK.
• Work with Quality Assurance Managers and other functions to define appropriate risk reduction strategies/action plans
• 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.

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• Opportunities to develop personal, profession and behavioural skills to enable future further progression with the function and business.

• Ideally qualified to minimum HNC/HND in relevant subject.
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