Quality Conformance Engineer

MERITUS are recruiting for a Quality Conformance Engineer to join our client on an initial 12 month basis to support Aerospace projects from Broughton.

QUALITY CONFORMANCE ENGINEER - INSIDE IR35 - £31.90 PER HOUR - BROUGHTON, FLINTSHIRE - 12 MONTHS - LIKELY EXTENSION - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the our client's Quality Development Programmes & Major Industrial Projects team. This role provides exposure to Project Management, APQP deployment, Quality Standards, Industrial System Development, and Operational Quality
, supporting the resolution of complex quality issues and driving continuous improvement across the product lifecycle.

The role focuses on improving process performance, reliability, and repeatability
, ensuring quality is embedded at initial design, through industrialisation, and into serial production, with strong emphasis on prevention, surveillance, inspection, and adherence
.

• Ensure full quality industrialisation of Major Mods, STEP Mods, Incremental and Full Developments, and Major Industrial Transfers to enable stable serial manufacture and rate ramp-up.
• Lead and prioritise Production Organisation Approval (POA) activities to maintain the highest levels of product safety.
• Provide quality input into risk, planning, multifunctional, and stakeholder reviews
  .

• Deploy APQP methodology and applicable quality standards.
• Support and facilitate FMEA activities (Design, Process, and Machine).
• Create, maintain, and update Control Plans (CPs) to reflect design and process changes.
• Plan and execute Production Process Verification (PPV) to validate manufacturing routings.
• Forecast Cost of Non-Quality (CoNQ) and support mitigation actions.
• Provide lineside quality support during test campaigns, HoV manufacturing, and Start of Production (SoP) phases.
• Support Key Characteristics (KC) and Critical to Item (CTI) cascade from Design and Manufacturing Engineering.
• Support APQP deliverables including Decision Trees (DT), Applicability Matrices (AM), and Key Business Deliverables (KBD) as both owner and assessor.