Senior Programme Quality Engineer

LevelUP HCS; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

LevelUP HCS is seeking a Senior Programme Quality Engineer to lead quality activities across the programme lifecycle in the aerospace domain. You will serve as the quality focal point, manage non-conformances, and drive continuous improvement with cross-functional teams including Engineering, DFAM, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain.

You will ensure conformity to ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D, review design and test deliverables, and mentor junior engineers to uphold a strong quality culture within the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of direct experience in Quality Engineering or related field in aerospace/defense.
• Experience supporting product design and development in Space/Aerospace/Defence manufacturing.
• Understanding of System Engineering processes and related domains.
• Experience with testing tools and software test equipment.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D.
• Experience with quality assurance techniques and methodologies.
• Technical report writing.

Responsibilities

• Lead programme quality activities and act as the main point of contact for quality, audits, reporting, and customer quality matters.
• Oversee quality throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with company, customer, regulatory, and industry standards.
• Develop and maintain Quality Assurance and Quality Control Plans, supporting inspections, testing, product release, and production readiness.
• Review designs, technical documentation, test results, and deliverables to ensure quality, traceability, and compliance.
• Manage non-conformances, deviations, root cause investigations, and corrective actions to drive continuous improvement.
• Support audits, Stage Gate Reviews, configuration control, and programme quality reporting.
• Ensure compliance with safety and quality requirements during testing, qualification, and other high-risk activities.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, suppliers, and customers to resolve quality issues and improve performance.
• Monitor programme risks, quality metrics, and improvement initiatives, ensuring timely issue resolution.
• Mentor junior quality engineers and promote a strong culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Quality engineering

System engineering processes

Technical report writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Aeronautics, Systems, Electrical, Electronics & Mechatronics Engineering

Master’s degree in related Engineering discipline

Tools

Testing tools & equipment

Job description

About The Role

The Senior Programme Quality Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and assuring quality activities throughout the Programme lifecycle, ensuring that products, processes, and activities comply with applicable standards, customer, contractual, regulatory, and company requirements.

Acting as the designated quality focal point for the assigned Programme or scope, the Senior PQE provides independent quality oversight, supports Programme governance and decision-making, manages and communicates quality risks and non-conformances, promotes continual improvement, and coordinates quality activities across Programme Management, Engineering, Design for Advanced Manufacturing (DFAM), Manufacturing, Configuration Management, other Quality functions, and relevant interfacing functions.

The Senior PQE ensures that quality requirements are effectively embedded and verified across design, development, verification, validation, qualification, production, and acceptance activities, supporting the timely delivery of conforming products.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead programme quality activities and act as the main point of contact for quality, audits, reporting, and customer quality matters.


• Oversee quality throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with company, customer, regulatory, and industry standards.


• Develop and maintain Quality Assurance and Quality Control Plans, supporting inspections, testing, product release, and production readiness.


• Review designs, technical documentation, test results, and deliverables to ensure quality, traceability, and compliance.


• Manage non-conformances, deviations, root cause investigations, and corrective actions to drive continuous improvement.


• Support audits, Stage Gate Reviews, configuration control, and programme quality reporting.


• Ensure compliance with safety and quality requirements during testing, qualification, and other high-risk activities.


• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, suppliers, and customers to resolve quality issues and improve performance.


• Monitor programme risks, quality metrics, and improvement initiatives, ensuring timely issue resolution.


• Mentor junior quality engineers and promote a strong culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautics, Systems, Electrical, Electronics & Mechatronics Engineering


• 8+ years of direct experience in Quality Engineering, Product Design Assurance, or Development Engineering, with demonstrated experience supporting product Design and Development activities within the Space/Aerospace/Satelites/Defence Manufacturing industry.


• A good understanding of System Engineering processes; working knowledge one or more of the following: guided missiles, drones, UAV, space satellites or complex multidisciplinary systems that include subsystems such as warheads/fuzes, seekers, propulsion/motors, avionics, actuators, Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) Assemblies


• Experience with testing tools and software test equipment


• Working knowledge of quality assurance techniques and methodologies (ISO 9001:2015 & AS9100D)


• Knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning and First Article Inspection tools and techniques


• Technical report writing

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in related Engineering discipline


• American Society for Quality (ASQ) certification


• Chartered Member of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)


• Certified Explosive worker (to Explosives Act 15 0f 2003 and Explosives Regulations of the OHS Act 85 of 1993), ISO 9001


• Lead Auditor certification.