Quality Lineside Engineer

Airbus; Broughton; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly pay

PAYE or Umbrella options

20% shift uplift

Aerospace industry employer

Job summary

Airbus is seeking a Quality Lineside Engineer for the Broughton site. You will be the on-floor quality advocate, interpreting drawings, leading root-cause investigations and ensuring rapid corrective actions across products and processes.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply quality systems, and drive containment and prevention across shifts. This role emphasizes hands-on quality leadership in aerospace manufacturing environments.

Qualifications

• Solid quality experience in manufacturing/engineering environments.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings.
• Strong problem-solving skills using PPS, 5-Why or Ishikawa analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to challenge constructively while preserving relationships.
• Data analysis skills to interpret datasets and graphical information.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist quality support on drawings, parts, processes and services, ensuring quality requirements are met.
• Ensure the quality system is followed across the business via surveillance activities.
• Ensure certification processes are defined and applied consistently.
• Coordinate and lead quality issues from teams/customers, drive corrective actions.
• Investigate events, non-conformances to identify root causes and resolve within shifts.
• Investigate deficiencies found in process confirmations and implement corrective actions.
• Compile and present quality overviews to leadership.

Skills

Quality assurance

Engineering drawings

Problem solving

Data analysis

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication

Tools

PPS

5-Why

Ishikawa

Job description

Quality Lineside Engineer - Airbus, Broughton
Location: Broughton (onsite)
Pay rate: £24.64 per hour (PAYE) / £32.96 per hour (Umbrella)-
Shift pattern: Double Days, alternating weekly - mornings 06:00-13:10 / afternoons 13:30-20:40, plus 20% shift uplift
Security clearance: BPSS+ (arranged by Airbus Security)
Quality is the difference between good and great - and Airbus needs someone who can prove it, every shift.
Guidant Global is recruiting on behalf of Airbus UK for an experienced Quality Lineside Engineer to join the Quality Team at their Broughton site. This is a genuine opportunity to work at the heart of one of the world's leading aerospace manufacturers, taking ownership of conformity across products, processes and services.
You’ll be the point of assurance on the lineside floor - interpreting drawings, leading root-cause investigations, and making sure the right corrective action happens fast, every time.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing specialist Quality support and advice on drawings, parts, processes and support services, independently assuring that Quality requirements are met
• Ensuring the Quality system is adhered to across the business through surveillance activities
• Ensuring certification processes are consistently defined and applied
• Coordinating and leading reported quality and technical issues from business teams and customers, ensuring the accountable function takes corrective and preventive action and keeping the originator informed
• Carrying out initial investigations into events, QLBs and non-conformances to identify probable root cause, aiming to resolve within one shift through multifunctional problem-solving activities
• Investigating the probable root cause of deficiencies identified during process confirmation activities, ensuring appropriate corrective and preventive action is taken
• Compiling and presenting Quality overviews to the leadership team

What we're looking for
This role is about proven Quality experience rather than formal qualifications.
Essential:

• Solid Quality experience within a manufacturing or engineering environment
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings
• Strong problem-solving skills, with experience of tools such as PPS, 5-Why or Ishikawa (fishbone) analysis
• Excellent interpersonal skills - able to challenge constructively while maintaining strong working relationships
• Data analysis skills - able to interpret data sets and graphical data to draw sound conclusions
• Comfortable working as part of an integrated, cross-functional team
• Quality or engineering-based background within a major manufacturing industry, ideally aerospace
• Automotive, manufacturing or production experience gained with a large organisation will also be considered

You'll also bring a strong customer focus, a commitment to product safety, and the proactivity and adaptability needed to help reduce non-conformities across the business.

Why join us

• Competitive hourly pay, with Umbrella or PAYE options
• 20% shift uplift on the Double Days pattern
• The chance to build your career within a world-leading aerospace business

Inclusive recruitment
Guidant Global is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applications from all suitably experienced candidates. There are no nationality or other restrictions attached to this role, and we work in partnership with Airbus to ensure a fair and accessible recruitment process for everyone.
Ready to bring your Quality expertise to Airbus?

Quality Lineside Engineer • Broughton, UK