Quality Assurance Engineer

Our client has an opportunity for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join them on a permanent basis. This role aims at establishing and adapting a value-adding, lean quality management system (QMS), and achieving a high level of process compliance across all staff, with the goal of assisting the teams in delivering exceptional performance and product quality via agile and effective business processes.
Role: Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Oxfordshire, UK
Hours: Full Time
Salary: Discussed Upon Application

Responsibilities:

• Ensure corrective and preventative actions identified in internal audits are carried out to improve current QMS.
• Gaining a detailed understanding of the QMS, propose comprehensive implementation methods for top level improvements.
• Identify and liaise with relevant process stakeholders and propose changes that will meet their requirements.
• Identify training needs and carry out training for staff on QMS processes and compliance.
• Write and update QMS documentation, establishing and improving cross-references between documents, process flows and templates.
• Participate in team meetings to identify and implement further improvements in processes and process compliance.
• To complete any other tasks as commensurate with the level and nature of the post as delegated by the (line manager or management team).

Requirements:
Essential Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Quality Assurance, or another equivalent discipline.
• Experience working in the Aerospace industry, preferably in Space.

Personal Skills

• Logical, process-oriented with very strong problem-solving and organisational skills.
• Analytical thinking, able to identify sources of information, consolidate and interpret data and present conclusions.
• Great attention to detail, produces outputs of great quality.
• Learns quickly.
• Takes ownership of a problem from start to finish, presenting findings and solutions.
• Ability to work within defined timescales to meet milestones.
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels across the business.
• Seeks to understand and pro-actively support colleagues, with a willingness to learn and share knowledge.
• Ability to work on several projects/tasks at any one time.

Technical Skills

• Excellent use of MS Office, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Word.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel (functions, pivot tables, macros, conditional formatting, charts, etc.)
• Excellent technical English written/verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to effectively implement training & transfer knowledge.
• Comfortable with statistical analysis and presentation of findings.
• Experience with cloud-based collaboration systems (e.g. SharePoint, Office 365, Asana, Trello, Slack, etc.)
• Comfortable working with and adapting to new IT systems and software

Desirable

• Familiarity with ISO 9001.
• Previous experience with Quality Assurance and/or the Space Industry.
• Experience with MS Visio.
• Experience with VBA scripting on MS Excel

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please apply immediately!

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