Programme Quality Engineer I

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead programme quality assurance from design through production readiness while ensuring customer, regulatory, contractual, and company compliance.
• Develop, maintain, and implement the Quality Assurance Plan in line with approved plans, standards, procedures, and milestones.
• Provide quality governance during programme, stage gate, and management reviews, reporting quality status, risks, and recommendations.
• Manage quality activities covering design, development, integration, verification, validation, qualification, testing, and production readiness.
• Review and approve programme deliverables, design documentation, First Article Inspection Reports, quality reports, and programme data packages.
• Lead non-conformance, deviation, and concession management through root cause analysis, risk assessment, corrective action, and governance closure.
• Oversee testing and product release readiness, including configuration control, traceability, calibration, safety compliance, and approved test procedures.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and suppliers, support supplier quality activities, and resolve quality issues.
• Plan and follow up audits, assessments, and configuration reviews, ensuring findings and improvement actions are closed.
• Use quality metrics, risk analysis, lessons learned, and corrective and preventive actions to drive continuous improvement.

Basic qualifications

• Degree in aerospace, aeronautics, systems, electrical, electronics, or mechatronics engineering.
• 6-8 years of quality assurance experience in aerospace, defence, aviation, or high-precision manufacturing.
• Proven knowledge of quality assurance techniques and methodologies, including ISO 9001:2015.
• Experience with testing tools, software test equipment, and quality engineering.
• Applied knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning and First Article Inspection tools and techniques.
• Background knowledge of guided missiles, drones, UAVs, space satellites, or complex multidisciplinary systems.
• Technical report writing capability.
• Creativity and innovation.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related engineering discipline.
• ASQ certification or similar quality certification.
• Chartered membership of the Chartered Quality Institute.
• Certified explosive worker qualification under the cited explosives legislation.