
Sr. Quality Engineer
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Evaluate design, manufacturing, testing, and operational processes to ensure compliance with quality standards and risk mitigation strategies.
- Conduct technical reviews, risk assessments, failure analyses, and corrective actions to ensure mission safety and performance.
- Ensuring the RCCA process provides prompt resolution and robust solutions to prevent a recurrence, focusing on mistake-proofing and process improvement
- Resolve non-conforming material issues
- Team with Supply Chain to drive supplier excellence initiatives. Perform supplier audits as required.
- Create specific results and metrics that are most relevant for the products/programs being supported to aid in determining priorities and objectives
- Manage ISO9001/AS9100 adherence audits, reviewing findings, reviewing Viasat procedures, and communicating status reports to upper management
- Champion production validation and risk mitigation tools with suppliers with tools like Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) deliverables
- Provide mentorship to program management, engineering, and operations on quality planning and execution to fulfill the overall quality mission
- Understand the most critical quality issues affecting programs/customer and regularly communicate them to business area quality leads as well as key program stakeholders
- 10+ years’ experience in quality, operations, and/or engineering in a development and manufacturing environment
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Applied Sciences, or a related field or equivalent experience
- 3+ years leading teams, program or projects
- Aviation hardware development and manufacturing experience
- Excellent knowledge of AS9100, AS9102B, 9001 QMS or maintenance
- Knowledge of theory and principles of data analysis
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, read procedures and process guidelines, record and interpret data
- Working knowledge of Lean Six Sigma tools, Failure Modes Effects Analysis, (FMEA), 8D, 5 Why, etc.) and other failure analysis quality tools
- Must have ambition (the aim to learn and achieve personal advancement)
- Must display autonomy (ability to work independently with minimal direction)
- Demonstrate technical aptitude (ability to comprehend sophisticated technical topics and niche information)
- Ability to communicate and influence different stakeholders, both internally and externally
- Up to 40% travel (domestic and international)
- 7+ years auditing suppliers and supporting new production introduction
- Lead AS9001D auditor trained
- Detailed understanding of AS9102 and First Article Verification Process
- Understanding of IPC 610, IPC-620S, J-STD-001S, MIL-STD-883
- PLM tool knowledge, (such as Agile), as well as ERP systems, (such as Oracle)