Quality Bids & Proposals Lead – Aerospace & Defense

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Ampthill; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Corporation is seeking a Quality Bids & Proposals Coordinator to manage quality activities across the bid and proposal lifecycle. You will ensure customer requirements are understood, costed, planned and integrated into compliant, competitive proposals.

Working with Business Development, Programme Management, Production, Supply Chain, Engineering and Quality teams, you will provide quality planning expertise to ensure obligations, risks, resources and compliance are identified

Qualifications

• Background in Quality Engineering, Quality Assurance or Manufacturing Quality.
• Experience supporting bids, tenders or proposals within a defence, aerospace or highly regulated industry.
• Working knowledge of AS9100 and quality management systems.
• Ability to interpret technical specifications, drawings and customer requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Review customer requirements, specifications and drawings to determine the quality scope of work.
• Develop and maintain Quality BOEs, ensuring quality activities are accurately costed and resourced.
• Liaise with Quality SMEs to validate labour hours, inspection requirements and delivery approaches.
• Identify and document quality-related assumptions, dependencies and exclusions within bid documentation.
• Assess and record quality risks and opportunities, supporting mitigation planning and bid risk reviews.
• Identify any additional equipment, training, certification, tooling or specialist skills required to fulfil the contract requirements.
• Represent Quality during bid reviews, approval boards and sign-off activities.
• Maintain and continuously improve the Quality bid response library, standard templates and reusable proposal content.
• Support cross-functional bid teams to ensure quality requirements are aligned with operational capability and business objectives.
• Ensure all proposed quality activities comply with customer, regulatory and company quality requirements.

Skills

Quality engineering

Bid coordination

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Documentation

Communication

Organisational skills

Education

Quality Engineering/QA/Manufacturing QA background

Tools

SAP

Job description

Lockheed Martin Corporation is seeking a Quality Bids & Proposals Coordinator to manage quality activities across the bid and proposal lifecycle. You will ensure customer requirements are understood, costed, planned and integrated into compliant, competitive proposals.

Working with Business Development, Programme Management, Production, Supply Chain, Engineering and Quality teams, you will provide quality planning expertise to ensure obligations, risks, resources and compliance are identified