Position: Principal Product Assurance Engineer (Supply Chain)

Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 DOE

The role:

Join our Quality Supply Chain team as an experienced Product Assurance Engineer. In this role, you will support non-conformance management and conduct audits within the missile production supply chain. This is a unique opportunity to work with a new, dynamic quality team, ensuring high standards of quality assurance activities with our supply base.

You will work closely with our internal customers to identify candidate suppliers for surveillance planning activities and schedule the necessary activities to be performed.

Conduct quality audits and assessments in line with the surveillance plan and against the suppliers' contracted quality requirements. Review the suppliers' corrective action progress, conduct product acceptance, and aim to reduce project risk.

What we're looking for from you:

• Engineer with experience of quality management systems, techniques and processes especially during industrialisation and manufacturing phases.
• Experience of working within quality supply chain environment and able to operate effectively as part of the team.
• Auditing experience covering product and or quality system audits
• Good knowledge of key external standards, such as EN9100 and ensure it is maintained
• Experienced in Quality Tools & Techniques (8D, Six Sigma, DMAIC, Kaizen, PFMEA).
• Practical knowledge of non-conformance management process and SAP business tool an advantage,
• Ability to travel and work in a team environment
• Ideally qualified as a minimum to HND or HNC with experience within Engineering or Quality Assurance.

Due to the nature of our business, this particular vacancy requires the applicant as a minimum to be a British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship and capable of achieving the clearance levels mentioned above.