Programme Quality Engineer I

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead Programme Quality Assurance across the full lifecycle, ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, contractual, and company requirements from design through production readiness.
• Develop, maintain, and implement the Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) and ensure quality activities are executed in line with approved plans, standards, procedures, and milestones.
• Provide independent quality oversight and governance, including participation in programme reviews, stage gate reviews, and management reviews, reporting on quality status, risks, and recommendations.
• Manage quality assurance activities covering design, development, integration, verification, validation, qualification, testing, and production readiness to ensure product conformity and readiness.
• Review and approve programme deliverables and quality documentation, including design documentation, First Article Inspection Reports (FAIRs), quality reports, and key programme data packages.
• Lead non-conformance, deviation, and concession management, ensuring effective root cause analysis, risk assessment, corrective actions, stakeholder communication, and timely closure through appropriate governance processes.
• Oversee testing and product release readiness, ensuring configuration control, traceability, calibration status, safety compliance, and adherence to approved test procedures.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and suppliers to ensure alignment on quality requirements, resolve quality issues, support supplier quality activities, and drive compliance throughout the programme.
• Plan, support, and follow up audits, assessments, and configuration reviews, ensuring findings, actions, and continuous improvement initiatives are effectively implemented and closed.
• Drive continuous improvement and quality culture, using quality metrics, risk analysis, lessons learned, and data-driven corrective and preventive actions to enhance programme performance and product quality.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautics, Systems, Electrical, Electronics & Mechatronics Engineering
• 6-8 years of Quality Assurance experience in the aerospace, defence, aviation, or high-precision manufacturing industry
• Proven knowledge of quality assurance techniques and methodologies (ISO 9001:2015, preferably AS9100D)
• Experience with testing tools and 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, UAV, space satellites or complex multidisciplinary systems that include subsystems such as warheads/fuzes, seekers, propulsion/motors, avionics, actuators, Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) Assemblies
• Technical report writing
• Creativity and innovation

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in related Engineering discipline
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) certified or similar,
• Chartered Member of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)
• Certified Explosive worker (to Explosives Act 15 0f 2003
• Explosives Regulations of the OHS Act 85 of 1993)

WHY CHOOSE EDGE

CANDIDATE PRIVACY & EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT