Quality Assurance Lead – Manufacturing

Job Description

Job title: Quality Assurance Lead

Location: Scotstoun – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £57,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing: 

• Be the primary focal point for all quality assurance related matters which affect the area of responsibility, providing leadership to effective quality planning and engaging with key internal and external stakeholders
• Lead process assurance and quality planning activities to identify and reduce the risk of quality escapes through new, complex and critical activities
• Liaise with senior stakeholders internal to the company, key partner organisations and customer’s communities on quality related topics and improvement action plans
• Maintain a suite of quality focused metrics, which inform the performance of critical to quality activities and present these at project and customer reviews
• Conduct trend and root cause analysis using quality key performance indicators and to develop improvement strategies with key stakeholders and project delivery leads
• Oversee risk focused internal audits, quality investigations and process confirmations to determine compliance with business policies, programme processes and quality standards

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience of leading or managing Quality within and engineering/manufacturing organisation, with evidence of reviewing and interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, standards and technical requirements
• Proven experienced in Quality Management Systems including Auditing (Lead Auditor training) and Quality Problem Solving/Investigation skills (8D)
• Clear Quality management skills for Quality Planning, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and use of tools such as Six Sigma, DMAIC, APQP, First Article, Root Cause Analysis, Statistical Process Control, Quality Metrics and key performance indicators
• Preferably proven knowledge and experience within a precision machining environment of product verification, inspection processes requirements management and quality standards

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Quality Assurance team:

As a Quality Assurance Lead you will be responsible for leading the quality assurance strategy for a critical aspect of the programme to deliver 8 of the most advanced anti-submarine warfare frigates in the world to the UK Royal Navy. From design, manufacture, integration and commissioning to the point of customer acceptance, working alongside equipment and system suppliers, internal programme teams and external stakeholders.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 18^th November 2024 – Interviews for this position will take place W/C 25^th November 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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