Quality Assurance Engineer

Airbus; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbus Portugal SA in Lisbon seeks a quality assurance professional to ensure DOA compliance, apply guidelines and drive process maturity across design conformity. You will collaborate with stakeholders to maintain high quality and conformity within the organization.

The role requires a degree in aerospace/engineering, several years in quality management and ISO knowledge, with business fluent English. Travel may be required; permanent position with Airbus Aerostructures projects.

Qualifications

• Degree in aeronautics, aerospace or similar engineering.
• Knowledge of DOA processes and design conformity.
• Experience with ISO 9100/9001/9004 quality systems.
• Analytical, structured, and project-driven mindset.

Responsibilities

• Ensure DOA and process maturity criteria are fulfilled.
• Represent ASA for design conformity and quality standards.
• Apply quality management methods (e.g., PPS, Six Sigma, FMEA).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain process references and improvements.
• Define quality measurement, reports, and analysis for non-qualities.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Systematic approach

Project management

Data management

Team communication

Attention to detail

English fluent

MS Office

G Suite

Quality management

Education

Master's degree in Aeronautics / Aerospace

Tools

Part 21 knowledge

Job description

Responsibilities - your mission

• Ensures consistent application of guidelines, standards, procedures and norms.
• Ensuring the business requirements and the process maturity criteria within the DOA (Design Organization Approval) processes and methods
• Establish process quality function for program processes
• Represent ASA for design conformity process
• Assure that all Business Requirements and the process maturity criteria are fulfilled by the Process in accordance with the Corporate Process Management rules.
• Support proactively the Process Management Team to set up the Process referentials and to improve the Process maturity.
• Ensure process is fully described according to Airbus Aerostructures requirements,
• Allowing its application across Airbus Aerostructures and the Risks & Opportunities associated are managed.
• Act as a correspondent on overall Quality with Process Management Team
• Application of quality management methods eg. PPS, 9S, Six Sigma, Pareto, Ishikawa, FMEA, Five-Why and Benchmarking etc.
• Ensuring that the DOA delivers relevant services of your organization for the process covered by the DOA is correct and complete
• Be accountable to collaborate and connect with multi stakeholders to ensure Design conformity and quality Standards adherence; as well as aircraft configuration standards
• Define adapt quality measurement, reports and analysis of Airframe non-quality items; you will use and establish previous program lessons learnt on non qualities
• Advise on Quality process, propose solutions & improvements
• Act as focal point for quality topics for site engineering
• Find solutions to prevent DQN, modification & Non Quality issues

Requirements - our ideal candidate will have

• A diploma/master's degree in aeronautics and engineering aerospace, mechanical engineering or in other ways acquired comparable qualification
• Knowledge in Part 21 requirement is highly valued
• Several years of professional experience in the field of quality management, DOA management and/or process management
• Eelevant experience with the common quality management system (ISO 9100/9001/9004)
• Analytical and systematic way of working
• Project management skills : understanding of the overall project management methodology, structured and organized way of working
• Talent for agile, reliable and fast data management as well as high resilience and assertiveness
• Team & communication skills
• Accurate work ethic
• Business fluent English (German desirable)
• Experience in MS Office and G Suite
• Willingness to travel

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Portugal SA

Employment Type:

Permanent

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Quality Assurance

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