Senior Engineering Quality Lead – Lifecycle Assurance

Sierra Nevada Corporation Mission Systems UK; St Athan; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 holidays

Pension scheme 10%/5%

Tusker car scheme

Employee assistance programme

Private medical scheme

Eye care discounts

Life Assurance

Dental health plan

Cycle to work

Sage benefits

Income protection

Job summary

SNC Mission Systems UK in St Athan is seeking an Engineering Quality Manager to lead quality across the engineering lifecycle, from IRAD support through product acceptance. You will be hands-on within Engineering, driving containment, root-cause analysis and improvements while reporting to Assurance to ensure conformity.

We value experience in QA, aerospace/defence domains and a strong QMS background. A Baseline Personnel Security Standard is required and nationality/residency checks apply.

Qualifications

• Relevant Engineering, Quality or technical qualification, or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant Quality Engineering/Assurance experience within a complex engineering environment.
• Experience providing Quality support to Engineering and Projects, including quality planning, nonconformance management and product conformity.
• Experience applying QMS, customer and contractual quality requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and root cause investigation capability.

Responsibilities

• Act as the quality lead for Engineering and assigned projects, providing practical support, independent assurance and constructive challenge across the engineering lifecycle.
• Ensure Engineering, development and project activities are planned and delivered in line with customer, contractual, regulatory, QMS and internal requirements.
• Support design, development, verification, validation, testing, technical reviews, audits, product acceptance and release activities.
• Manage engineering and project nonconformances, including containment, investigation, root cause analysis, corrective/preventive action and verification of effectiveness.
• Support product conformity, Certificates of Conformity, delegated quality sign-off and release evidence, ensuring records are complete, traceable and authorised.
• Ensure engineering changes, concessions, deviations, departures from requirements and quality risks are properly assessed, controlled, recorded and communicated.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Engineering

Root Cause Analysis

QMS

Auditing

Education

Engineering/Quality degree

Job description

SNC Mission Systems UK in St Athan is seeking an Engineering Quality Manager to lead quality across the engineering lifecycle, from IRAD support through product acceptance. You will be hands-on within Engineering, driving containment, root-cause analysis and improvements while reporting to Assurance to ensure conformity.

We value experience in QA, aerospace/defence domains and a strong QMS background. A Baseline Personnel Security Standard is required and nationality/residency checks apply.