Quality Improvement Engineer

Role Overview

We are currently seeking a Quality Improvement Engineer, working across the Quality Assurance function. You will be working with key operational stakeholders within MBDA and in partnership with our key UK customers, maintaining, improving and standardising key quality related business processes. This will be an ideal role for anyone passionate about optimising and standardising quality processes, and leading continuous improvement.

The primary focus of this role is on process standardisation, governance and improvement across a range of quality related topics – a real opportunity to challenge and improve the way we assure quality to the customer working with a wide range of collaborators across the business.

• Bring together, support, maintain and improve jointly agreed (with customer) quality processes – examples include standards and their application to contract, quality risk management, joint (with customer) audits, quality metrics reporting and action follow up.
• Handle joint customer and internally identified quality process improvement initiatives to completion.
• Support implementation of output from Quality lessons learned into standard practice.
• Support Independent System Monitoring Process (in relation to airworthiness) – governance, assessment and action/improvement follow up.

• Engineer / Manager with experience of quality management systems, techniques and processes.
• Ideally HNC/HND level qualification with experience within Engineering or Quality Assurance.
• Excellent communication & social skills – an ability to influence change.
• Experience of developing and improving processes, and establishing robust process management controls (required) across multiple functions/programmes (desired).
• A drive for continuous improvement.
• Flexible approach and adaptability to work across a wide range of quality related topics and programmes.
• Good knowledge of key external standards, such as EN9100.
• Experience with Quality and Improvement Tools & Techniques (e.g. Lean Six Sigma, 8D, Kaizen, PFMEA).
• Knowledge of working within the framework of key Defence Industry standards (desirable).

Security Clearance:
British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

We trust our people to agree, within their teams, where and when they can be most effective. Our Dynamic Working policies allow individuals great levels of flexibility around the hours they work and where they work. Depending on your role and function, this may include options for paid overtime, dynamic leave (time in lieu) and more.

• Employees receive 25 days of paid annual leave per calendar year, in addition to all statutory and public holidays. After 5, 10 and 15 years of service, an additional day of annual leave is added to your allowance at each of these milestones. You can also enjoy more time off by purchasing up to an additional five days holiday through payroll.
• Our MBDA Retirement Savings Plan is a ‘Defined Contribution’ plan in the Mercer Master Trust. The standard contributions are 4% of an employee's base salary and 6% employer contributions. You can increase both employee and employer contributions by up to 2%.
• Financial Awareness – Employees have access to free financial webinars hosted throughout the year, along with access to a financial education website which provides plenty of useful hints, tips and guidance on managing financial wellness.
• Share Incentive Plan – Acquire shares in our UK Shareholder, BAE Systems PLC, the scheme is tax efficient on shares purchased.
• Mortgage Advice – As part of our financial wellbeing initiative employees can access free of charge mortgage advice and webinars.
• Season Ticket Loan – Employees can borrow the value of public transport season ticket for bus or train journeys to and from work and spread the cost over 12 months.
• Critical Illness…