Safety Quality Engineer

Eaton Group; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Group is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to help ensure regulatory compliance and safeguard safety processes across aerospace projects. The role emphasizes hazard identification, risk assessment, and maintaining QA documentation.

You will support safety and quality audits, drive continuous improvement, and work with multi-site teams to implement AS9100, CAA/FAA, and ISO standards. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Clear understanding of hazards and risk management in aerospace.
• Proven quality/business improvement experience.
• Experience with a Quality Management System.

Responsibilities

• Ensure regulatory compliance and support hazard identification and risk management.
• Monitor actions to mitigate risks per MOEs & POE; coordinate with compliance.
• Provide periodic safety performance reports to SAG and SRB.
• Maintain safety management documentation and conduct safety training.

Skills

Clear communication

Team collaboration

Proactive attitude

MS Office proficiency

Tools

Quality Management System

Process Mapping Software

Spc / KPIs

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Quality Management function in Eaton ensures that Eaton's products and services meet the required standards of quality through direction of the quality assurance programmes and quality control policies and the application of the Quality Management System. It further ensures assurance that the QA Policy is performed by qualified and experienced personnel.

What you’ll do:

• Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements such as:
  • Support with facilitating hazard identification, risk assessment and management;
  • Monitor the implementation of actions taken to mitigate risks, as listed in the MOEs & POE, unless action follow-up is addressed by the compliance monitoring function;
  • Support with the provision of periodic reports on safety performance to the Safety Action Group (SAG) and Safety Review Board (SRB);
  • Ensure the maintenance of safety management documentation;
  • Ensure that required safety training is conducted and meets acceptable standards;
  • Support with the provision of advice on safety matters;
  • Ensure the initiation and follow-up of internal occurrence investigations.
• Support the Safety Management function by engaging in multi-function, multi-site groups that develop company directives, policies, processes, procedures and metrics to assure program, contract, customer, regulatory requirements, international standards and working agreements are deployed.
• Support stakeholders in analysis of safety related process data, metrics, models and flows to identify root cause of complex problems and development and implementation of preventative or corrective actions.
• Conduct research, compile and analyse performance reports and process control statistics to continuously improve safety process capability.
• Support safety elements for quality source selection via approved processes and process capability assessments of suppliers' ability to meet program quality requirements and support business decisions.
• Support the development of the Safety audit scope, schedule, and plans to determine compliance with regulator/customer safety management system expectations, configuration assurance, related business, regulatory and customer requirements, and report results to management
• Support any investigations arising from Quality issues through to their documented conclusion, with supporting root cause analysis and solutions to prevent re-occurrence
• Ensuring Quality measures with associated targets are maintained for QA Compliance
• Support of external Quality audits, assessments and visits by customers and authorities
• Support in the coordination and facilitation of timely responses and resolution of quality issues identified
• Assist with the generation of Quality Plans and proposals
• Participate in Engineering Design Project reviews and auditing these projects to ensure compliance to internal QMS requirements
• Support Operators Approval Processes, including issuing of Stamps and Scopes of Approval
• Ensure the departmental objectives are achieved in line with the job holder’s individual objectives
• Perform duties in accordance with company policies, procedures and processes
• Develop and support of a business improvement culture and associated activities e.g. process mapping, lean, continuous improvements etc.
• Assist with the maintenance of company approvals e.g. EASA/CAA, FAR, ISO, AS etc. to maintain airworthiness
• There may be additional activities to perform from time to time in order to maximise the contribution to Ultra goals and objectives

Qualifications:

• Clear understanding of the processes involved in identifying, categorising and managing hazards and risks associated with aerospace products.
• Has a proven range of Quality/Business Improvement experience
• Proven experience working within a quality management system
• Experience with auditing, both internal and supporting external audits Knowledge of manufacturing environment and working with a supply chain
• Experience of liaising with internal and external customers
• Aerospace quality standards (e.g. AS9100, CAA Part 21, CAA & EASA Part 145 etc.)
• Other aerospace topics e.g. FOD, counterfeit avoidance etc.
• First Article / Parts Approval reporting methods (E.g. AS9102, PPAP etc.)
• Process Measurement techniques (e.g. SPC, KPIs, etc .)
• Quality Management System and Process Mapping Software

Skills:

• Good communication skills demonstrated both verbally and in writing in the form of presentations and recommendations for improvement
• Works effectively with others
• Demonstrated experience in building good working relationships and gaining trust and respect with internal and external customers
• Plans work and delivers on time
• Demonstrates a "Can do" positive attitude
• Use own initiative within the scope of the role
• Makes timely decisions within the scope of the role
• Proactively able to manage own work to in order to achieve objectives
• Good application of Microsoft packages and relevant software for the role (Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

What we offer:

• Opportunity to work in a global, highly collaborative environment
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Strong focus on learning, development, and career progression
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• A culture that promotes inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement

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