Engineering Quality Project Leader
Job Description
Job title: Engineering Quality Project Leader
Company: Morson Talent
Job description: Our client, a world leader in aerospace manufacturing, is looking for a Quality Project Leader to join their New Developments Programme Quality Department in Broughton
They consist of strategic modifications, aiming at maximizing improvements to the aircraft whilst minimizing the industrial impact. The Programme Quality team is defining, planning, and driving all Quality activities for the development of projects, to ensure quality right first time on time every time.
You will get the opportunity to be part of the development activity at aircraft project level, integrated into the Project Multi-Functional-Team, with the delegation to set-up, and run the related Quality project: all the Quality activities needed to ensure project success. You will form a crucial part of the international team influencing future projects and processes as they are developed.
You will gain extensive exposure & benefit from working within a transnational team and within a cross-functional environment including program, engineering, manufacturing engineering, production, supply chain, procurement, finance and quality. This will give you opportunities to improve your leadership competences, team working, networking, stakeholder management and influencing skills
**PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING: **Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work suitable candidates will be security clearable or eligible for this level of clearance**
Responsibilities:
- Set-up and run the Quality project integrated into the assigned New Developmentproject:
- quality activities defined
- agreed at project level
- duly planned (ProjectQuality Development Plan/Quality Implementation Plan)
- resources budgeted andavailable (project Quality team)
- governance in place and monitoring set-up andrunning
- Act as the single focal point for Quality for assigned projects, guiding the project Team towards “quality right first time” and ensuring that the “Independent Quality Voice” is heard and adhered to
- Coordinate the network of all Quality Functions involved in the Team (Quality Engineering, Quality Manufacturing, Quality Plants and FALs, Procurement), facilitating interactions with the Airframe, System & Powerplant Programme Teams
- Implement and monitor all preventive activities to ensure “Quality Right FirstTime”, and especially drive the disciplined application of the Quality Standards(D/PFMEA, KC / CTI, Control Plan) and the APQP (Advanced Product QualityPlanning) throughout the project phases
- Ensure projects’ compliance to the clients “Product Development Process” framing and supporting the architecture of the applicable Development Reviews at aircraft level, for the assigned projects
- Prevent Non-Quality by setting and monitoring specific Quality project targets (non-conformities, concessions, DQNs), to ensure preventive and corrective actions are properly put in place
- Supporting smaller modifications at the beginning on airframe
Requirements:
- Strong Project management skills and competence
- Dynamic and proactive candidate with the ability to speak with different stakeholders and can move a project forward
- Aviation or automotive background would be highly desirable
- Experience in Quality, competence in Quality Standards such as Failure Modes and
- Effect Analysis (FMEA), Key Characteristics/Critical Items (KC/CTI), Control Plan, Measurement Systems Analysis, Statistical Process Control.
- Competence in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
- Strong assertiveness and leadership skills
- Strong stakeholders management, change management, proactivity
- Ability to keep focus on what matters
- Ability to give meaning and to influ
