Quality Engineer

Isembard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Job summary

Isembard's London factory is seeking a hands-on Quality Engineer to own QC for aerospace, defence, energy components. You will inspect parts, read drawings and shape QC governance.

The role emphasizes on-floor work, building procedures, and partnering with machining and CAM teams to drive measurable improvements. Location: Southwark, London.

Competitive salary and equity offered; opportunities to grow as the quality function expands.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Inspect parts entering QC after cleaning and perform visual and dimensional checks with appropriate tooling.
• Read drawings and part requirements accurately, and disposition rework and nonconforming parts.
• Keep MasonOS and FlatBOM accurate; the factory plans against what you record.
• Build quality procedures and governance so quality is controlled in the process, not just at final inspection.
• Improve QC systems and SOPs, and strengthen handoffs into and out of quality.
• Drive measurable process improvements with machining and CAM teams.

Skills

Reading drawings

On-floor manufacturing

Problem solving

Manufacturing/Quality experience

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

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.