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Bolton
An opportunity has arisen for an Industrial manufacturing Engineer professional to join the ISP Procurement team supporting a variety of Mechanical & Electro-Mechanical suppliers.
Salary: Circa £45,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days per week on-site
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
What we can offer you:
- Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
- Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
- Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
The opportunity:
This opportunity provides the chance to work within a new dynamic quality team, your primary responsibility will be to provide Quality Assurance support to the supply chain team to deliver production hardware, while ensuring adherence to our Customer requirements. If you wish to take on a fresh challenge, then come and join our team as we commence our journey.
The Role
- Take a pro-active approach to non-conformance management and continuous improvement.
- Lead root cause analysis of supplier product non-conformances using industry wide problem solving methods.
- Ensure Supplier corrective actions are effective and validated, ideally at supplier location, to ensure future deliveries are protected from further escapes
- Provide non-conformance data analysis and summary reports into engineering/senior management and customer reviews.
- Pro-actively identify Quality issues/risks relating to potential risks for project milestone achievement, and for quality of deliverables. Identify and offer potential mitigation solutions.
- Participate in the Project Quality network to report and share the quality assurance status.
- Support IME development projects ensuring compliance to Industrial Validation milestones
- Conduct Quality audits/assessments in line with the surveillance plan and against the Suppliers contracted Quality requirements, reviewing the Supplier's corrective action progress, conducting product acceptance, with the aim of reducing project risk
- For your portfolio of suppliers, use historical data sets to create a source inspection plan of known high-risk parts.
- For your portfolio of suppliers, use historical data sets create a manufacturing audit plan to review process flow and control plan for key characteristics.
- Responsible for checking and signing off FAIRs from suppliers to ensure they are compliant.
- Opportunity to identify process improvements to aid on time and on quality delivery of products during the product lifecycle;
What we're looking for from you:
- HNC/HND in Engineering would be desirable.
- Experienced quality professionals, preferably within Mechanical or Electronic Engineering with a proven track record in Product Assurance.
- Desirable APQP, PFMEA and green belt problem solving experience.
- Practitioner of current QA problem solving and improvement methods (8D, RCA, DMAIC, etc.)
- Good knowledge of the product lifecycle - specifically in development.
- Strong analytical skills; ability to run reports in Excel, use SAP QM system, and document management tools.
- Continuous improvement awareness and ability to use own initiative to deliver improvements.
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