Lead Quality Engineer - Aviation/Aerospace

LEAD QUALITY ENGINEER - 3 MONTH CONTRACT - HERTFORDSHIRE - £25 - £35 PER HOUR

Responsibility for undertaking activities in support of Quality Assurance compliance and development at the Client's site to maintain regulatory/3rd Party approvals, satisfy customer quality requirements, support business improvement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Conducting internal audits and support with identified improvement throughout the business to ensure compliance with Customer, Corporate, and 3rd party requirements (AS9100 Rev C, DAOS - DME5000, and EASA/FAA Part 145). AS9001 is important, (EASA/FAA Part 145 is not essential).
- Interface with identified new and existing Customers to establish robust compliance to quality requirements, Quality Plans, preparation of FAIR's etc.
- Support the delegation and oversight of QC authorisations held by the Operations.
- Coordination of External audits/NCR's.
- Quality investigations and improvements.
- Working with design reviews.
- Composite experience is not required, they will consider an Aerospace Quality Engineer.
- Pro-active approach supporting the engagement and achievement of quality objectives.
- Maintain topical awareness of applicable Quality Standards (AS/EN9100, DAOS, EASA, FAA Part 145) (Note only AS9100 essential).
- Consistently present a professional approach with Suppliers, Customers and Regulatory bodies.
- Provision of accurate and timely data/reports as required by senior management.
- Act with professionalism, consistency and fairness throughout the organisation.
- Common problem: Candidates receive a customer rejection, the quality engineer is responsible for investigating, inspecting the component and then reporting on the issue.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

- Experience of working to AS9001 - MANDATORY
- Ideally Auditing to AS9001
- Conducting Internal Audits
- QA input to FAIR's
- Documented QMS improvements
- Hosting 2nd/3rd party audits
- Leading and supporting Business CI activities

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