Quality Assurance Engineer
Pitstone, Tring, Hertfordshire
£45,000 - £50,000 per annum
Benefits: 8% Bonus, Excellent Pension, 33 Days Holiday, Dental, BUPA, Workplace nursery scheme, Midday finish on Fridays, Enhanced family friendly policies, Wellbeing programme, Employee assistance programme including health and finance, Onsite subsidised canteen
Skills: Engineering degree, 8D problem solving, QRQC, AS9100, ISO9001 standards, FMEA, SPC, Root cause investigations, Part 21/Part 145 standards
At Safran Electrical & Power, we recognise that aviation needs to innovate and change in order to protect our environment. We believe that future aircraft power systems will be hybrid-electric or full-electric, which is why we are working to develop and deliver advanced electrical solutions to help decarbonise flight.
The UK Safran Electrical & Power team has expertise in designing and developing electrical systems comprising generators, power conversion, distribution and control, with developing expertise in electric motors for aircraft propulsion.
If you want to help deliver this future, we are looking for enthusiastic and creative people to join our team.
The Role
As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Safran Electrical & Power you will provide quality assurance support primarily to the Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul team with a focus on the facilitation of customer and internal investigations, quality issues affecting performance and specific customer meetings and audits. You will drive improvements in the quality of products and components, as well as providing support to other members of the team where required.
- Drive a proactive quality assurance mind-set within cross-functional teams on a daily basis.
- Act as the subject matter expert for quality tools and techniques applied in operations.
- Maintain and improve quality assurance within the module through proactive involvement in processes and product compliance.
- Act as a focal point for site quality issues, interfacing between the operational modules and Quality Assurance team to ensure all required actions are defined, owned and completed.
- Ensure timely management and ownership of existing non-conforming material.
- Ensures compliance with all customer, EASA, ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements and audits and actively lead the closure of any corrective actions or required improvements.
Desirable Experience
We are looking for candidates with a range of skills and experience, but we're also keen to help people grow and develop in this role. If you have some or all of the following, we'd love to hear from you:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field preferred.
- Strong technical background in manufacturing, ideally aerospace or automotive.
- Knowledge of regulatory standards Part 21G and Part 145.
- Demonstrated ability with quality and continuous improvement tools.
- Experience and knowledge of Quality Standards AS9100 & ISO 9001
- Solid understanding of problem solving techniques such as FMEA, 8D, SPC, etc.
- Evidence of written English at interview stage.
Get involved:
We also have a number of groups and forums onsite that you can get involved with, including Women at Safran, STEM ambassadors, employee forum, charity partnerships and wellbeing programme.
Our Wellbeing Programme in Pitstone aims to place employee wellbeing at the heart of our business, and we integrate it within all that we do. The programme is made up of four wellbeing committees; Healthy Minds, Physical, Social & Financial. Our enhanced family friendly policies re-enforce our commitment to providing a workplace that is both diverse and inclusive.
