Quality Engineer
// Role Summary
Join BAE Systems as a Quality Engineer in Rochester, Kent, ensuring program quality requirements are met across the product lifecycle and acting as the primary point of contact for customer quality concerns.
// Key Responsibilities
- Ensure program quality requirements are met throughout the product lifecycle.
- Resolve quality issues using problem-solving and root cause analysis.
- Manage customer quality concerns, including investigations and report writing.
- Support customer and regulatory audits for compliance.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within projects and operations.
- Gain experience in non-conformance management, auditing, and V&V processes.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Join BAE Systems as a Quality Engineer and play a pivotal role in ensuring that programme quality requirements are consistently met across all stages of the product lifecycle. This position offers an excellent opportunity to develop your expertise in quality within a manufacturing environment, including exposure to non-conformance management, auditing, and verification and validation processes.
Core Duties
- Ensuring program quality requirements are met through all aspects of the product lifecycle.
- Taking responsibility for the resolution of quality issues through the structured application of problem-solving and root cause analysis techniques.
- Acting as the primary focal point for customer quality concerns, including investigating and writing detailed failure and repair reports.
- Supporting customer and regulatory audits to ensure compliance to contractual flow downs and sector accreditations.
- Working with key stakeholders to achieve project and organizational goals.
- Leading continuous improvement initiatives within projects and across operations to support the strategic goals of the site.
What You'll Gain
This opportunity will allow you to gain further knowledge and experience in the Quality role within the manufacturing lifecycle, processes including non-conformance management, auditing, Verification and Validation.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Previous experience within a Quality Engineering environment.
- Knowledge and understanding of Quality Systems requirements.
- HNC or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
The Quality Team
Exciting opportunities exist within the Operations Technical Support function to work as part of an integrated team comprising of Quality, Manufacturing, and Production Engineers working on products manufactured at our Electronic Systems site in Rochester. With the right behaviours, drive, and willingness to learn, we will provide personal development and training opportunities to complement your role and future progression within the organisation.
Security and Export Control
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.