AWE Plc
Quality Engineer
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Job Description
Quality Engineer - Supply Chain
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: Up to £47,000 p.a. (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.
Let us introduce the role;
You will be working as part of an established team, providing Quality expertise to support the certification of products from our Supply Chain. Working collaboratively with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders.
Some reasons we think you'll love it here;
AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:
- 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
- Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
Duties include;
- Product Certification of materials including reviewing suppliers documentation against technical requirements.
- Carrying out Verification and Validation activities including Destructive and Non-Destructive testing using Test Plans (ITPs) and/or Quality Control Plans (QCPs).
- Maintain, review and report non-conformance, analyse data, share trends, drive continuous improvement and share best practice.
- Provide quality guidance and customer support ensuring that acceptance criteria are appropriate to scopes of supplier work, utilising Quality tools where appropriate.
- Attend design/technical/task and defect reviews as required to ensure Quality representation.
Who are we looking for?
- ONC/HNC or equivalent in a relative discipline and/or extensive practical experience with a strong manufacturing or process related background.
- Experience in product certification would be beneficial.
- Good working knowledge of Quality Management Systems, related standards and utilising a graded approach to Quality.
- Good understanding of configuration and change management techniques.
- Attention to detail.
- Good problem solving and analytical skills.
- Good inter-personal/negotiation/communication skills working proactively with suppliers, building strong partnerships and supporting supplier development.
- Willingness to travel, if required for business purposes.
Important things you need to know:
- You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
- We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
- Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
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Location: Reading, GB
Posted Date: 10/31/2024
Contact Information
Contact | Human Resources AWE Plc |
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