Quality Assurance Engineer

Provide quality assurance throughout programme and product lifecycle and acceptance events, assuring effective governance

Focus on the quality of Aquila's and suppliers' deliverables, and on what we deliver to the customer

Proactively seek opportunities and drive for continual improvement and excellence

Promoting best practice and business excellence

Providing monitoring, measurement, analysis, evaluation and reporting on the product and service quality

Ensuring quality and safety is in everything we do

Deputise for the Quality Manager when delegated

Main Tasks

Provide quality assurance support for programmes, projects and service delivery to customer deliverables and business objectives

Identification of risks and ensure these are captured in the Business and PMO risk registers

Support / lead problem management, ensure corrective actions fully implemented

Ensure that quality issues registered, and appropriate resolutions are implemented

Providing impact analysis on MAPS changes requests for quality

Carry out internal and supplier audits

Ensuring that effective root cause analysis has been completed, that corrective actions fully implemented to address nonconformances

Providing input and support to Test Readiness Reviews and conduct risk-based checks

Support, review and approve deviations and concessions

Identify opportunities for improvement , support continual improvement activities that deliver positive changes to process effectiveness, efficiencies and safety

Proactive, with the ability to deliver defined objectives

Self-motivated, capable or working on their own or in a team

Strong ability to follow process consistently and methodically

Ability to rapidly analyse and evaluate problems, risks and opportunities to improve, and to propose, support, deliver effective solutions

Commitment to delivering excellence, promoting and enshrining quality and best practice

Drives for continual improvement, Degree, HND or HNC (or equivalent) and significant experience in relevant engineering subject

Ability to understand complex technical problems, identify root causes and course of actions to assure product and service quality

Sound knowledge and experience of typical product and project lifecycles, and the roles undertaken by key team members and stakeholders

Proven track record of delivering effective quality assurance across the complete lifecycle (from concept to operations / obsolescence)

ISO9001 Lead Auditor or equivalent

Good written and oral communications to allow effective working with peers and stakeholders at technical and non-technical levels

In depth knowledge and experience of using quality and improvement tools and techniques - in particular within complex environments

Desirable

Experience of working within a Defence environment, including alignment and working within the relevant standards (e.g. DEF-STANs, JSPs)

Experience of working within Air Traffic Management or Aviation in a quality role

Experience of software quality assurance

ITIL Foundation Version 4 Foundation

Lean / Six Sigma preferably to Green Belt