Engineering Quality & Assurance Lead

Sierra Nevada Corporation Mission Systems UK Ltd; St Athan; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pension scheme

Private medical scheme

Life Assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Dental health plan

Job summary

Sierra Nevada Corporation Mission Systems UK Ltd in St Athan is seeking an Engineering Quality Manager to drive quality across the full Engineering lifecycle, from concept through product acceptance. You’ll be hands-on within Engineering while reporting to Assurance to manage quality risks, nonconformances and continual improvement.

Lead quality activities for Engineering projects, ensure activities align with customer, contractual, regulatory and internal QMS requirements, and support design,

Qualifications

• Relevant engineering, quality or technical qualification or equivalent experience.
• Significant quality engineering/assurance experience in a complex engineering environment.
• Experience providing quality support to engineering and projects, incl. quality planning and nonconformance management.
• Experience applying QMS, customer and contractual quality requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and root cause investigation capability.

Responsibilities

• Act as the quality lead for Engineering and assigned projects, providing practical support, independent assurance and constructive challenge across the engineering lifecycle.
• Ensure Engineering, development and project activities are planned and delivered in line with customer, contractual, regulatory, QMS and internal requirements.
• Support design, development, verification, validation, testing, technical reviews, audits, product acceptance and release activities.
• Manage engineering and project nonconformances, including containment, investigation, root cause analysis, corrective/preventive action and verification of effectiveness.
• Support product conformity, Certificates of Conformity, delegated quality sign-off and release evidence, ensuring records are complete, traceable and authorised.
• Ensure engineering changes, concessions, deviations, departures from requirements and quality risks are properly assessed, controlled, recorded and communicated.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Root Cause Analysis

Problem Solving

Analytical Thinking

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Sierra Nevada Corporation Mission Systems UK Ltd in St Athan is seeking an Engineering Quality Manager to drive quality across the full Engineering lifecycle, from concept through product acceptance. You’ll be hands-on within Engineering while reporting to Assurance to manage quality risks, nonconformances and continual improvement.

Lead quality activities for Engineering projects, ensure activities align with customer, contractual, regulatory and internal QMS requirements, and support design,