Portfolio QA Lead - Hybrid, CQI Training

Thales Group; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Life cover

Annual bonus

Volunteer day

Employee discounts

Job summary

Thales Group in Crawley is seeking a Portfolio Quality Assurance Manager to lead QA across multiple programmes within the A2IS domain. You will drive governance, assurance, and independent reporting to senior stakeholders, ensuring customer requirements are embedded and met.

This hybrid role based at Crawley offers CQI membership support, training, and a pathway to improve quality across complex engineering programmes, with SC clearance as a common requirement for UK security roles.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Quality Management role within complex projects or engineering environments.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and secure buy-in to quality vision.
• Experience working in fast-paced design/development environments.
• Proven ability to initiate and drive effective change.
• CQI membership or related professional qualification preferred.
• Auditor qualification is desirable.
• Knowledge of RCA tools/techniques and quality standards (AS9100, ISO9001).
• Ability to engage with senior stakeholders from diverse functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage portfolios to deliver quality assurance across bids, projects, design, development lifecycles, system validation, supply chain, manufacturing and customer acceptance.
• Ensure governance is consistently applied across gates, milestones, and lifecycle events, including customer-facing reviews.
• Provide independent quality reporting to senior programme stakeholders within the portfolio.
• Ensure customer requirements are embedded and represented at all times.

Skills

Quality management

Stakeholder influence

Change management

Risk-based decision making

Auditing

Education

CQI membership

Job description

Thales Group in Crawley is seeking a Portfolio Quality Assurance Manager to lead QA across multiple programmes within the A2IS domain. You will drive governance, assurance, and independent reporting to senior stakeholders, ensuring customer requirements are embedded and met.

This hybrid role based at Crawley offers CQI membership support, training, and a pathway to improve quality across complex engineering programmes, with SC clearance as a common requirement for UK security roles.