Location
Warwickshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Description Summary
Ready for a new and exciting career opportunity where you will report directly into the UK Naval Quality Leader, collaborating with a strong and diverse project team engaged in solving exciting challenges within our Naval Projects portfolio.
This role will require both hands on and office-based engagement, with duties that vary month to month, dependent on the status of the projects, customer interaction and issue resolution.
This role is based at our Rugby (Warwickshire) facility, where travel to our supply chain and other locations can be expected.
Job Description
The Naval Quality Engineer, supporting New Build, Spares & Services, has the responsibility for ensuring that quality requirements (in terms of inspection notification, execution, documentation collection, management of non-conformance reports etc.) are adhered to and meet contractual obligations.
His / her responsibilities will include both Project & Supplier Quality activity, from driving supplier adherence by cascading down contractual quality requirements to the supply chain, both internal and external, to providing the customer with an End of Manufacture Report upon completion.
As a Naval Quality Engineer, you will review and capture contractual quality requirements and ensure that these are understood and delivered against during execution. You will be the quality focal point for both the Customer and the Naval Project team, with his / her key internal stakeholders being from Project Management, Engineering and Sourcing teams.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Ensure close collaboration within the horizontal Naval Project team (Project Management, Engineering, Sourcing, Tendering, internal partners and external supply chain, workshops etc.), providing expertise and guidance as required.
- Lead project specific supplier risk assessment and the definition of project specific Inspection and Test Plans (ITPLs).
- Quality interface to customer and internal partners, participate in customer / project quality meetings.
- Manage witness point schedule, communicate inspection notifications to customer and participate in witness inspections as required.
- Support kick-off meetings with key suppliers / product owners for specific projects.
- Non-conformance Report (NCR) coordination as ordering unit / assignment group, NCR and Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) follow-up.
- Follow-up and communication on customer non-conformities.
- Ensure the On Time Deliver (OTD) of subcontracted documents reviews, perform weekly follow-up & collect KPI data.
- Ensure the delivery of the Suppliers’ EoMRs as per the project requirements.
- Prepare End of Manufacture Report (EoMR) documentation for submittal to customer, as per ITPLs and / or contractual requirements.
- Performs Internal Audits within the project Scope & capture audit outputs in the appropriate tools (Gensuite, SSP etc.).
- Seek, share and institutionalize best practices and lessons learned across the project.
Required Qualifications:
- Formal technical and / or quality qualification or practical manufacturing experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in Steam Turbine and / or Generator Business.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a combination of Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering and Supply Chain environments.
- 8D problem resolution, FMEA and other related quality methodologies.
Desired Characteristics:
- Customer focused in defining quality and establishing priorities.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to deliver effective presentations and educate at all levels of the organization.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Understands the principles of Six Sigma / Lean methodologies.
- Ability to influence cross-functional business teams and drive quality improvements.
- Ability and willingness to travel, as required.
In this role he / she will be working on Naval projects which requires the successful individual to hold the relevant UK Security Clearance. We will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not have it. Due to the nature of the work an individual is required to be a UK National or a Dual National from a on ITAR country (as approved by the MOD).
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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