Principal Quality Engineer
Matchtech Group
- Bristol Area
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Review, give and maintain Project Quality planning documentation.
- Ensure compliance to BMS procedures is maintained.
- Act as Key Point of contact for Design (Project Chief Engineer & CDE) for any Hardware concerns.
- Act as External Customer for Product/ Hardware Quality issues/ concerns
- Customer interface for on and off site Product Acceptance activities
- Represent Project at the Op's NCRP Level 1 & 2
- Act as the Key point of contact for the Project PAM
- Represent Project PA at the monthly Operations Management Certification Stamp Issuing Authority Meetings
- Report on any escapes to our External Customers that could be Human Error issues
- Ensure product life cycle reviews are planned, carried out and actions handled appropriately.
- Lead product non-conformance and facilitate implementation of non-conformance process.
- Support design and manufacturing defect investigations.
- Provide non-conformance data analysis and summary reports into major equipment and senior management reviews.
- Proactively identify, communicate and mitigate Quality risks and issues to reduce risk and increase customer happiness.
- Participate in process improvement and facilitate local flash audits, providing compliance and process improvement ideas.
- Plan and facilitate quality focused micro training to increase quality process awareness, efficiencies and proficiencies within the Project teams.
- Provide support to the transfer of technology process.
- HNC/HND in Engineering or Quality Assurance is desirable, or equivalent work experience
- Ideally a practitioner of current QA problem solving and improvement methods (8D, RCA, DMAIC, etc.)
- A high degree of self-motivation, autonomy and ability to work proactively, with excellent organisation, communication & social skills
- An ability to inspire change, a respectful great teammate, comfortable working in a matrix organization
- Strong analytical skills; ability to run reports in Excel, use SAP QM system, and document management tools
- Continuous improvement awareness and initiative to deliver improvements
- Ability to understand and respect cultural differences
- Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous.