Quality Engineer

Isembard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Job summary

Isembard is building precision factories in the UK and beyond. This London-based Quality role owns QC on parts for aerospace, defence, energy and other critical sectors.

You will inspect, read drawings, and improve QC governance on the factory floor, partnering with machining and CAM teams to ensure first-pass quality and scalable processes. The role involves hands-on inspection, developing procedures, and ensuring MasonOS records align with manufacturing plans.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent technical experience.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings.
• Experience in manufacturing, quality, or engineering roles.
• Willingness to work on the factory floor.

Responsibilities

• Inspect parts entering QC after cleaning and perform visual and dimensional checks.
• Read drawings and part requirements and disposition rework and nonconforming parts.
• Keep MasonOS and FlatBOM accurate and ensure factory plans align with records.
• Build quality procedures and governance to prevent defects earlier in the process.
• Improve QC systems and SOPs and strengthen handoffs into/out of quality.
• Drive measurable process improvements with machining and CAM teams.

Skills

Technical reading of drawings

Problem-solving

Ownership

Factory floor experience

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent technical experience

Tools

MasonOS

FlatBOM

Job description

About Isembard

Isembard is building a network of high-performance factories for critical industries. We combine advanced machine tools, robotics and our own software, MasonOS, to make precision components for aerospace, defence, energy and frontier technology companies, with factories across the UK, US, Germany and France. Our mission is to forge industrial acceleration.

The role

Quality is where a precision factory earns its customers or loses them. This role owns quality control at our London factory, on parts going to aerospace, defence, energy and other critical industries.

It is hands-on inspection and engineering judgement in equal measure. Beyond the bench, you will build the procedures and controls that let the factory grow without inspection becoming the bottleneck.

What you'll do

• Inspect parts entering QC after cleaning, running visual and dimensional checks with the right tooling.

• Read drawings and part requirements correctly, and disposition rework and nonconforming parts.

• Keep MasonOS and FlatBOM accurate. The rest of the factory plans against what you record.

• Build quality procedures and governance so quality is controlled in the process, not only found at final inspection.

• Improve QC systems and SOPs, and strengthen the handoffs into and out of quality.

• Drive measurable process improvements with machining and CAM teams.

What we're looking for

• An engineering degree or equivalent technical experience.

• Confidence reading technical drawings.

• A willingness to work on the factory floor rather than next to it.

• Problem-solving, initiative and ownership: you will often be the person who notices what others missed.

• Manufacturing, quality or engineering experience, including from an internship or placement.

Nice to have

• Metrology, inspection or QC experience.

• Process improvement experience.

• Exposure to precision manufacturing, aerospace, defence or energy.

Why Isembard

• Learn quickly across engineering and manufacturing, with one-to-one mentorship.

• Real room to advance as the quality function grows.

• Competitive salary and equity.

Location: On-site at our Southwark factory in London.