Quality Conformance Engineer

ARM International; Filton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

ARM International in Filton, United Kingdom seeks a Quality Conformance Engineer to drive quality improvements in aircraft manufacturing. You will lead conformance activities, analyse quality data, and collaborate with multifunctional teams to implement robust quality solutions.

The role focuses on reducing non-quality costs, leading QIPs, and ensuring adherence to environment, health and safety standards while advancing manufacturing quality practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in aircraft manufacturing and quality conformance.
• Ability to analyze quality data and KPI trends.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional teams.
• Proficient in problem solving and process improvement.
• Strong communication and report writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead conformance engineering activities to reduce non-quality costs.
• Analyze quality data sets and identify improvement trends.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy quality improvements.
• Lead Quality Improvement Projects (QIP) and assign ownership.
• Escalate issues affecting quality by analyzing KPI trends.
• Implement and coach quality toolsets and techniques (APQP, error proofing) in manufacturing.
• Review and monitor surveillance to ensure build and quality standards.
• Investigate complex quality issues from the business and customer.
• Coordinate clearance of plant QSR, SARI, and Events.

Skills

Data analysis

KPI analysis

Quality improvement

Multifunctional teamwork

Problem solving

Reporting

Advanced English

Tools

APQP

Error Proofing

Excel macros

Job description

Do you have experience/knowledge of aircraft manufacturing?

Do you have lineside and quality inspection experience?

Do you want to work with an industry-leading company?

If your answer to these is yes, then this could be the role for you!

As the Quality Conformance Engineer, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry.

You will be involved in:

• Conduct tasks in line with Conformance Engineering principles, leading to a reduction in the Cost of Non-Quality by generation of business KPI's and analysis of trends
• Data analytical skills to interrogate Quality data sets and provide trend analysis with emphasis on Quality improvements
• Work alongside the Quality Lineside team, functional teams, and multifunctional teams to identify, deploy and report on Quality Improvement opportunities
• Facilitate/Lead Quality Improvement Projects (QIP) activities to enable clear ownership of topics, improvement opportunities, and action resolution
• Escalation of issues impacting the Quality performance occurring in the business by the analysis of KPI trends to mitigate business impacts
• Facilitate/Lead implementation, application, and coaching of Quality toolsets, processes, and techniques within manufacturing areas to support business requirements (e.g. APQP, Error Proofing, Problem Solving)
• Review, create, and monitor Operational Surveillance, check criteria to ensure consistent build standards, quality standards and operator competence are obtained within the Plant
• Conducting and leading Quality investigations into complex/technical issues from the business and customer
• Facilitate/Lead reduction of Non-allocated Concession (NAC) impacting Plant perimeter Coordinate/Lead clearance of Plant QSR, SARI, and Events
• Ensure Environment, health and safety and airworthiness requirements are achieved
• Have a good knowledge of aircraft manufacturing and previous experience in process improvement
• Communication and report writing skills
• Experience of working with and leading multi-functional teams
• Good level of general IT skills (Including Microsoft Excel, word, google, etc.) and advantagous if able to create coding/macros
• Recognised Training in problem-solving techniques & methodology
• Advanced English and mathematics
• Background in running data, ability to produce graphs using spreadsheets
• Worked in Quality Conformance
• Quality inspections