Program Quality Engineer

Cwmbran Permanent £36,750 - £40,000 per year
  • Expanding manufacturer experiencing increased sales and investment
  • Career and academic development and support for all staff

About Our Client

Our client designs and builds innovative, customised and high-value-added seating solutions for all classes: Economy, PremiumEconomy, Business and First class, as well as crew seats. Our complete range of ergonomic seats ensures passenger comfort, based on state-of-the-art design and engineered components to ensure optimised use of space. One million seats made by the company are now in service worldwide.

Job Description

  • Implement quality actions to ensure that customer and manufacturer requirements are properly integrated into the program
  • Analyse customer requirements, establish and maintain quality deliverable by cascading them internally and to the supply chain through the program quality plan.
  • Ensure due application of the PROMPT reference system and the "Program Management" process by applying best practices.
  • Report to customers on compliance with their quality requirements.
  • Guarantee quality performance within the program:
  • Prepare reports and coordinate the associated improvement plan.
  • Implement a quality risk management plan for the program.
  • Support the operational teams in the attainment of program QCD (quality, cost, delivery) performance targets.
  • Promote the EN 9145 (APQP/PPAP) standard.
  • Manage quality events exported from the program.
  • Build and maintain relationships of trust with customers concerning quality.
  • Prepare, coordinate and track customer audits, consolidate corrective action requests and their processing.
  • Identify and manage quality risks and implement the actions necessary to achieve the quality objectives of the program.
  • Prepare quality performance reports for programs, identify areas for improvement and manage the associated improvement plan.
  • Stop any action that could have an unacceptable quality impact on the program and propose risk management actions.
  • Support IPTs to ensure the proactive quality assurance activities such as APQP, DFM, D/PFMEA are being driven and governed effectively at the early phases of the programme.

The Successful Applicant

  • HNC/HND or equivalent in an Engineering / Manufacturing related discipline.
  • D/PFMEA & Control Plans; experience and full detail understanding and execution
  • APQP / PPAP
  • Risk Analysis
  • Programme Management Gate Process Understanding & exposure
  • EASA Part 21J/G is dsireable but not essentail
  • AS9100 Awareness
  • Demonstrated experience supporting Quality Assurance / APQP / DFM / D/PFMEA activities across multi-disciplinary programmes
  • Knowledge of management of HSE risks
  • Flight safety risk management
  • Excellent Problem Solving Skills (8D, Six-Sigma etc.)
  • Competent communicator with an ability to establish trusted working relationships across all departments and with Customers

What's on Offer

Annual leave

25 days holiday per year, which includes Christmas Shutdown, plus bank holidays - pro rata, which increase with service.

Family Friendly working

We offer a range of family friendly policies benefits: we have a range of maternity, paternity and adoption polices. We also offer flexible working from day one.

Pension Scheme

Our Pension Scheme is provided by Legal & General

Life Assurance

We offer all employees life assurance cover. This death in service benefit plan provides a lump sum of four times base pay, and employees qualify from day 1 of their employment.

Employee Discounts

We offer a competitive online benefits portal. Via the online portal, employees have access to a wide range of retail discounts at many high street and online stores, restaurants and activities. Gym membership discounts are also made available for local and national gyms.

Christmas Savings plan

This annual scheme is offered on a non-profit basis and is designed to allow employees to save a proportion of their monthly salary each month. The scheme runs from January to October each year and the payment is deducted from your net pay. Participants can join the scheme at any time during the year and stipulate the amount they wish to have deducted each month by completing a form from the HR Team. Your savings are paid out in the November salary.

Learning and Development

As a company, we pride ourselves on developing and supporting our people throughout their career and encourage a working environment where you can thrive and succeed. We provide opportunities for ongoing training as well as advice and support to facilitate career progression, including course available via Safran University.

Cycle to Work

We encourage employees to cycle to work and offer a Cycle to Work scheme where employees can make savings on their bike purchases.

Health and Wellbeing Benefits

Our Employee Assistance Programme offer a comprehensive Employee Assistance Scheme, provided by Health Assured. The scheme covers a range of advice and support for employees and their immediate families. Free access to confidential helpline and face to face counselling for a range of advice from legal and financial to stress and family issues.

We offer an optional Health plan, provided by Benenden Health. Benenden health offer a healthcare plan, which provides medical diagnostics and treatment as well as access to 24 hour GP appointments and a 24 hour mental health line.

Long Service

The company appreciates the invaluable contribution made by all colleagues and seeks to recognize this. The Policy rewards colleagues based on milestones in their length of service with Safran which can take the form of vouchers or additional leave.

Contact
Chris Clarke
Quote job ref
JN-112023-6239966
Phone number
+44 115 934 8693

Job summary

Job function
Engineering & Manufacturing
Subsector
Quality, Technical
Sector
Industrial / Manufacturing
Location
Cwmbran
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Chris Clarke
Consultant phone
+44 115 934 8693
Job reference
JN-112023-6239966