Quality Assurance Technician

Help support the quality foundations within one of the UK's most ambitious aerospace and defence companies.

As a Quality Technician, you will play an important Assurance Engineer within our IR-detector line of business to help influence product integrity, support quality performance across the LOB and help to monitor our robust quality practices are embedded from concept through to delivery.

This role is to be based from our Southampton site with some flexibility regarding days onsite subject to work commitments and production support requirements (Hybrid)

• Support the development and deployment of quality plans, processes and assurance activities across the programme and product lifecycle.
• Developed experience in quality investigations, root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective action (CA) activities to improve product and process performance.
• Become trained in undertaking internal product and process audits to help drive improvements
• Collecting, analysing and producing metrics from various sources (SAP, spreadsheet, databases and Dashboards).
• Develop a working knowledge of AS9100 / ISO9001 Quality Management Systems to help role growth.
• Familiarity with Quality tools and techniques, including Root Cause Corrective Action, Process Mapping, First Article Inspection (FAI) would be advantages.

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting