Manufacturing Quality Control Manager

7 days ago


Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom L3Harris Technologies Full time

About L3Harris Technologies

L3Harris Technologies is a leading provider of advanced technology and systems for military, security, and commercial customers worldwide. Our team of over 1,400 people delivers unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains.

Our Technology and Systems

We specialize in developing technology and systems to enable quality pilot training, including distance learning systems, applications, and maintenance solutions. Our technology covers the complete training spectrum, from training devices to full flight simulators.

A Few of Our Employee Benefits

  • 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
  • Private medical insurance with optional family cover
  • Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
  • Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
  • Group income protection
  • Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
  • Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
  • Subsidised staff restaurant

About the Role

The Quality Assurance Engineer will play a crucial role in ensuring that our products meet stringent quality standards. This position involves developing and implementing quality assurance processes and our Quality Management System (QMS), collaborating with sourcing, engineering, and production teams as well as our supply chain, to maintain and improve product quality.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that the business adheres to the defined Quality Management System processes, work instructions, standards, and policies through internal auditing.
  • Ensure the safety of the delivered products through safety audits and inspections, and ensure that any product hazards are promptly addressed.
  • Maintain metrics and KPI dashboards, measuring and reporting on our own internal operational and process performance and that of our suppliers against agreed targets.
  • Ensure that inspections, reviews, and testing are held against appropriate criteria, with their results logged and resulting actions tracked and managed.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards, including ISO 9001.
  • Update and manage the QMS, improving the processes and work instructions through continual improvement and lessons learned in conjunction with the process owners to ensure they are efficient, safe, and improve product reliability and performance.
  • Problem Solving and Root Cause Analysis.
  • Capture, investigate, and resolve quality issues through root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions, working with cross-functional teams on quality-related problems.
  • Supplier Quality Management.
  • Support the evaluation and onboarding of new suppliers, and monitor their performance.
  • Visit supplier premises to assess first articles to ensure compliance to appropriate standards and requirements and to support product buy-offs or quality investigations.
  • Establish regular communication with internal functions, external suppliers, and customers.

Requirements

  • Qualifications and experience in manufacturing, production, quality, or an engineering discipline to at least HND qualified or equivalent. Graduate degree in a relevant field is preferable.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in quality assurance, ideally in manufacturing.
  • Working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 quality management system standard.
  • Aptitude for problem-solving and use of Quality tools such as 8D, 5-Why, Pareto, etc.
  • Experience in internal auditing.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work within a program team and engage with other functions.
  • Prepared to challenge constructively and raise issues and concerns that need addressing.
  • Willingness to work flexible hours to support the program, including ability to work away from home to support short-duration trips if required (1-5 days typically).
  • Experience/knowledge of SAP, JIRA, and Power BI.

Equal Opportunities Employer

L3Harris Technologies is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees. We do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris Technologies.



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