Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – Manufacturing & Supplier Quality

MBDA UK; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Pension scheme

Paid overtime

Flexi Leave

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Site facilities

Job summary

MBDA UK is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to join the Quality Assurance programmes team. The role focuses on providing QA support to the manufacturing team to enable ramp up and offload while meeting customer requirements.

You will contribute to mitigating risks, improving supplier performance, and ensuring robust non-conformance handling. The role involves working in a hybrid environment with on-site days and requires BPSS security checks after offer stage.

Qualifications

• Engineer with experience of quality management systems, techniques and processes.
• Practical knowledge of non-conformance management process and SAP business tool.
• Ideally HNC/HND level qualification with experience within Engineering or Quality Assurance.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills – an ability to influence change.
• Experience of working within project environment and able to operate effectively as part of project team.
• Ability to identify risks and critical issues and drive forward suitable mitigation solutions with the aim of reducing rework and increasing Customer satisfaction.
• Ability to understand and respect cultural differences.

Responsibilities

• Mitigate quality issues/risks within the supply chain for potential to risk project milestone achievement or quality of deliverables.
• Provide assurance the of the Supplier Industrial Validation activities to ensure an effective transition from development to the production phase.
• Improve Customer Satisfaction on quality related issues.
• Identify and provide support to improve Supplier performance.
• Ensure effective management of non-conformances across the Project including supporting engineering teams with defect investigations.
• Provide non-conformance data analysis and summary reports into engineering/senior management and customer reviews.
• Support delivery of the Product Life Cycle Gate review process, ensuring gates are undertaken to schedule, and timely closure of actions.
• Certify and release product to our customer in accordance with the contractual requirements.
• Identify and share opportunities for business improvement through participation in Learning Reviews.
• Undertake root cause analysis of critical non-conformances using industry wide problem solving methods.

Skills

Quality management

Communication

Project teamwork

Risk assessment

Education

HNC/HND in Engineering

Tools

SAP

Job description

MBDA UK is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to join the Quality Assurance programmes team. The role focuses on providing QA support to the manufacturing team to enable ramp up and offload while meeting customer requirements.

You will contribute to mitigating risks, improving supplier performance, and ensuring robust non-conformance handling. The role involves working in a hybrid environment with on-site days and requires BPSS security checks after offer stage.