Job: Quality Assurance Engineer (Aircraft Production)
Location: Birmingham
Duration: 12 months
Early shift is Mon- Fri 7am to 3pm (5x 8hr shifts)
Late shift is Mon - Thu 12 noon to 10PM (4x 10hr shifts)
This role is paid via umbrella and Inside IR35
The E-7 On-Site Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer will be part of the growing Aircraft Programme Quality Team, working within the Fixed Wing area, reporting to the Fixed Wing Quality Manager and taking day to day tasking from the on-site E-7 Quality Manager, providing QA inspections, Material Review Board (MRB) and design oversight during the major modification programme. Providing QA oversight of the on-site design teams activities, to ensure contractual and regulatory compliance. The role will also include monitoring and support to the contracted Part 145 maintenance organisation, embodying the modification and supporting Part M oversight where required. The successful candidate would be a part of a dynamic team with access to varied work and opportunities to progress their career alongside the growth of the business.
The Role:
- Participates in Quality reviews of proposals, contracts, regulatory, program and customer requirements to develop quality assurance strategies, plans and tests for hardware and software products, processes and services ensuring early quality involvement in program development.
- Development of Quality cost estimates based on Statements of Work (SOW) assigned.
- Develop and implement processes for determining, verifying and meeting Customer SOW requirements
- Verification of product conformity to design
- Verification of compliance to Customers' requirements
- Participate in the maintenance of processes, procedures and metrics to assure program, contract, customer and regulatory requirements are adhered to
- Validation of work instructions, tooling requirements, certifications, process standards, policies and procedures
- Identify and documents discrepancies, segregates and controls non-conforming items to prevent unintended use or delivery
- Verification of compliance to Regulatory requirements
- Identifying opportunities for corrective action while performing product or process verification
- Performs auditing, surveillance and monitoring against the approved audit plan, identifies and documents discrepancies and management of corrective actions to completion
- Segregation and control of non-conforming items
- Performs preliminary review and disposition of non-conformance
- Identifies repetitive or significant or non-conformance's and initiates requests for corrective action
- Conducts product review with customer during product or process verification
- To facilitate and sustain a Just Culture within the BDUK Maintenance/Production Organisation
- Participate with stakeholders in the analysis process of unfavorable process data, customer complaints and metric results formulating mitigation plans utilizing the closed loop preventive / corrective action process
- Represents Quality in design reviews, with regard:
- Routine verification of product conformance to design requirements, providing objective evidence of results
- Performs bench-marking and other forms of analysis to ensure specified processes capability levels are achieved
Essential competencies:
- Maintenance/Modification experience in a civil or military environment
- Part 21 experience
- Safety Management Systems knowledge and experience
- Previous industry experience in the application of aviation safety policy
- Safety investigation and root cause corrective action experience, within the aviation industry
- Aviation Quality Management System (QMS) experience
- Ability to identify help needed and coordinate with the appropriate leaders and team members
- Qualified Auditor with experience in auditing techniques
- Experience compiling and reporting statistical data