Quality Engineer

Rolls-Royce; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Quality Engineer for their Problem Resolution Team in Derby. This role emphasizes managing non-conformance and improving quality within the supply chain. Ideal candidates will have an apprenticeship in a technical engineering discipline and experience in operational quality roles. This position offers a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and excellent development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Minimum apprenticeship level in technical engineering.
• Experience in an operational quality role.
• Demonstrable business acumen related to quality and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage non-conformance and protect the supply chain.
• Lead cross-functional teams for build protection.
• Support manufacturing processes against non-conformance.

Skills

Problem solving

Data analysis

Interpersonal skills

Planning

Coaching

Education

Apprenticeship in a technical engineering discipline

Tools

8D investigation

Job description

Overview

Quality Engineer – Problem Resolution Team
Derby/ Hybrid
Full time

What You Will Be Doing

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Quality Engineer to join the Aerospace Procurement Problem Resolution Team.

Responsibilities

• Leading activities to effectively manage non-conformance and protect the supply chain from quality escapes
• Leading cross functional teams to ensure that build protection strategies are implemented
• Provide support in our manufacturing facilities to implement the processes to protect the business against non-conformance
• Provide coaching and support to the wider procurement organisation by sharing best practise across the organisation on management of non-conformance
• Coaching and supporting problem-solving activities with the external supply chain
• Providing data and support to the supplier management teams to monitor and measure the performance and effectiveness of their external supply chain
• Identifying opportunities to improve Quality and implementing plans to deliver that improvement

Why Rolls-Royce?

In this role you will play a key part in achieving our ambition of a true Zero Defects organisation aligned through our Operating principles of Assure, Protect and Enable; Assuring compliance to our regulatory and management system requirements, protecting the business by ensuring that non-conformance is managed safely with minimal customer disruption and ensuring the external supply chain conduct robust root cause investigations. In this role, you will be working closely with our domestic and external supply chains to manage escape and providing data and insight into the causes of non-quality across our external supply chain.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

What We Are Looking For

Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Educated to a minimum Apprenticeship level in a technical engineering discipline, coupled with a background of working in an operational Quality role
• Good problem solving, data analysis and presentation skills
• Interpersonal savvy, planning and personal organisation skills and the ability to influence others
• Demonstrable evidence of business acumen; relating to quality, improvement, manufacturing and HSE activities and priorities
• Knowledge and demonstrable application of Quality and BI tools, i.e., 8D investigation, improvement methodologies
• Able to coach and mentor others
• Strong customer focus

Job Category: Quality

Posting Date: 18 Sept 2025; 00:09

Posting End Date: 30 Sept 2025