Manufacturing Quality Assurance Engineer — 6-Month Contract

Line Up Aviation; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Line Up Aviation is seeking a Product Assurance Engineer for a six-month contract in Stevenage (Henlow option) to support the UK Manufacturing team. You will provide independent oversight of manufacturing processes, offering guidance on quality standards, process improvements and risk mitigation.

The role focuses on quality assurance across programmes, training, audits, and improving process effectiveness, with SAP non-conformance tools and cross-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• Quality professional with experience in process-based integrated management systems and business improvement.
• Familiarity with quality assurance practices across manufacturing environments.
• Experience applying risk management and structured problem-solving tools.

Responsibilities

• Provision of professional support and advice on all aspects of quality within Manufacturing UK; apply quality expertise to critical business issues to support business excellence, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
• Provision of quality assurance assistance to Manufacturing UK in support of manufacturing excellence including development and delivery of quality awareness and other process and quality-related training.
• Supporting Manufacturing UK on all programmes to achieve cost, time and quality targets. Assessing and controlling the product assurance quality processes and the resulting outputs.
• Assuring to and implemented in Company production programmes, and providing the appropriate level of support to improve the effectivity of processes used by the Company Business Management System is correctly tailored Manufacturing UK.
• Confirm through a programme of Independent assessments and audits that processes and quality requirements are being successfully implemented, applied and improved. Provide reports to Management that identifies the outcome of audits and issues. Monitor and facilitate the progression of any improvements from audit activities and the timely closure of identified issues.
• Maintaining strong links with Quality Assurance colleagues across MBDA (UK and Overseas) to enable the dissemination and achievement of Quality Objectives within Manufacturing UK.
• Work with Product Assurance Managers and other functions to define appropriate risk reduction strategies/action plans
• Support the development and implementation of the Process Effectiveness Review Programmes
• Interface with Customer Representatives (DQAFF), when required, to support the mitigation of quality issues
• Provide advice and help in the use of SAP as the non-conformance management tool and identify SAP improvement with respect to the Quality Module.
• Facilitation and/or support to various levels of Non-Conformance Review Panels
• Analysis of non-conformance defect data and acting on this data to undertake problem solving investigations identifying defect root cause and corrective action implementation

Skills

Quality professional

Risk management

Problem solving tools

Stakeholder communication

Process improvement

Education

HNC/HND or equivalent

AS9100 knowledge

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Line Up Aviation is seeking a Product Assurance Engineer for a six-month contract in Stevenage (Henlow option) to support the UK Manufacturing team. You will provide independent oversight of manufacturing processes, offering guidance on quality standards, process improvements and risk mitigation.

The role focuses on quality assurance across programmes, training, audits, and improving process effectiveness, with SAP non-conformance tools and cross-site collaboration.