Aerospace Quality Engineer - Onsite Improvement Lead

Accenture UK & Ireland; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave per year for Charit

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Aerospace Quality Engineer to support right-first-time, compliant delivery across our Manchester-based aerospace operations. You will act as a practical quality authority on the shop floor, ensuring safety, conformity and regulatory compliance while maintaining production flow.

You will work with Production, Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain to resolve non-conformances, drive corrective actions and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives in a regulated

Qualifications

• Experience in aerospace quality within regulated manufacturing.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and non-conformance management.
• Ability to read engineering drawings, specifications, work instructions.
• Knowledge of quality management principles including RCA and CAPA.
• Ability to work across multi-functional teams with clear communication.
• Attention to safety and ability to challenge when needed.

Responsibilities

• Assure product and process compliance across manufacturing, assembly and shop-floor activities in line with the customer’s Quality Management System, aerospace standards and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Provide hands-on quality support to production teams, including quality surveillance, inspections, audits and practical issue resolution to maintain safety, conformity and production flow.
• Manage and support non-conformities, concessions, deviations and related quality issues, including containment, investigation, root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
• Work closely with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Design, Supply Chain Quality and supplier teams to resolve quality issues, unblock production constraints and minimise impact to production schedules.
• Support concession and non-conformance workflows by maintaining accurate trackers, progressing actions, preparing inputs for review boards, and ensuring timely stakeholder follow-up.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and non-quality reduction initiatives using structured methods such as 8D, PPS, root cause analysis, FMEA, APQP, SPC or other recognised quality approaches.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Shop-floor Quality

Regulatory Compliance

Root Cause Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Tools

SAP

Job description

Accenture is seeking an Aerospace Quality Engineer to support right-first-time, compliant delivery across our Manchester-based aerospace operations. You will act as a practical quality authority on the shop floor, ensuring safety, conformity and regulatory compliance while maintaining production flow.

You will work with Production, Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain to resolve non-conformances, drive corrective actions and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives in a regulated