Programme Quality Engineer II

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead Quality Assurance across the programme lifecycle, ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, contractual, and company requirements from design through production and delivery.
• Develop, implement, and maintain the Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) and Quality Control Plans (QCPs), ensuring effective deployment of quality controls, inspections, verification, and surveillance activities.
• Provide independent quality oversight and governance, participating in programme reviews, stage gate reviews, and management reviews, and reporting quality status, risks, and recommendations.
• Review and approve programme deliverables, technical documentation, and data packages to ensure compliance with applicable quality, engineering, and contractual requirements.
• Manage quality activities across design, development, integration, verification, validation, qualification, testing, and production readiness, ensuring adherence to approved processes and standards.
• Oversee testing and product release readiness, verifying configuration control, traceability, equipment calibration, test readiness, safety compliance, and conformance to approved procedures.
• Lead non-conformance, deviation, and concession management, including root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), risk assessment, stakeholder communication, and timely closure through appropriate governance boards.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Programme teams, suppliers, and customers to ensure alignment on quality requirements and effective resolution of quality-related issues.
• Plan, support, and monitor audits, assessments, configuration reviews, and customer acceptance activities, ensuring actions, findings, and compliance obligations are effectively addressed and closed.
• Drive continuous improvement and quality culture, using metrics, trend analysis, lessons learned, and mentoring of junior quality engineers to enhance product quality, programme performance, and organizational capability.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautics, Systems, Electrical, Electronics & Mechatronics Engineering
• 8 - 10 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