Quality Conformance Engineer

European Foundation for Business Qualification (EFBQ); Chester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within a dynamic team focused on quality development and major industrial projects. This role offers the chance to enhance your skills in project management, APQP application, and quality standards while driving continuous improvement initiatives. You will play a vital role in ensuring product safety and adherence to quality standards, leading efforts to resolve complex quality issues. Join a forward-thinking organization where your contributions will directly impact the success of innovative projects and industrial transfers, making a significant difference in the manufacturing process.

Qualifications

• Experience in Project Management and APQP application is essential.
• Strong understanding of Quality standards and Operational Quality Management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure full quality industrialization of Major Mods and Incremental Developments.
• Lead Cost of Non-Quality forecasting and support mitigation activities.

Skills

Project Management

APQP application

Quality standards

Industrial System Development

Operational Quality Management

Job description

An exciting opportunity has opened within the Airbus Quality Development Programmes & Major Industrial Projects team in Broughton.

Skills

This role offers the opportunity to develop skills and experience in Project Management, APQP application, Quality standards, Industrial System Development and Operational Quality Management. Leading and driving the resolution of complex quality issues and continuous improvement projects by setting the measurement standards and identifying/facilitating improvements to increase:

• Process performance and product adherence to standards
• Reliability of processes
• Repeatability of processes, at initial design phase, before any process changes are made and continuously through the life of a product.
• Prevention/Surveillance/Inspection/Solving/Adherence

Missions

• Ensure full quality industrialization of Major Mods, Synchronised Targeted Embodiment Points (STEP) Mods, Incremental Developments & Full Developments and Major Industrial Transfers to enable serial manufacture at current and rate ramp up operating levels.
• Ensure focus & priority given to Production Organisation Approvals (POA) activities to ensure there is a very high level of Product Safety.
• Ensure quality input into all reviews including risk, multi-function, planning & stakeholder reviews.

Tasks & Accountabilities

• Application and deployment of APQP and Quality Standards.
• Support & Facilitate Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) in Design, Process & Machine.
• Create & update Control Plans (CPs) to incorporate modifications as required.
• Plan & execute Production Process Verification (PPV) to ensure validation of all routings.
• Lead Cost of Non-Quality forecasting & support mitigation activities where required.
• Provide lineside support for local test campaigns & Head of Version (HoV) manufacturing during Start of Production (SoP) phases.
• Support Key Characteristic (KC) & Critical Item (CTI) cascade from Design & Manufacturing Engineering functions.
• Support APQP activities including; Decision Tree's (DT), Applicability Matrix (AM), and Key Business Deliverable (KBD) assessments as both deliverable owner & assessor.