Supplier Quality Specialist

Role Overview:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Supplier Quality Specialist to join our team in the Global Combat Air Programme. Your role is crucial in driving aerospace quality, integrating innovative digital tools, and collaborating for excellence. You’ll be part of a leading team shaping the future of defence technology.

You’ll ensure that innovation in aerospace is not just a concept, but a reality, upheld by the highest quality standards. Your role is central to integrating sophisticated digital quality management tools and setting the stage for ground-breaking advancements in defence technology.

In collaboration with key stakeholders, you’ll be the driving force behind continuous improvement, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the defence aerospace sector. Your commitment to excellence will help shape a safer future, as you join a team of passionate professionals dedicated to making a significant impact.

Embrace this opportunity to be at the forefront of aerospace innovation, where your contributions are not just recognised—they’re essential. Join us and be part of an exciting journey to redefine quality in the defence aerospace industry.

Key Responsibilities:

- Pioneer Tailored APQP: Craft and execute a bespoke APQP framework that aligns with our futuristic vision, ensuring our supply chain is robust, resilient, and ready for tomorrow’s challenges.
- Digital Quality: Support the adoption of digital tools and data analytics for quality management, ensuring a seamless transition to digital records and predictive quality strategies.
- Collaborative Quality Assurance: Foster strong partnerships with Integrated Project Teams to integrate quality standards throughout the supply chain and product lifecycle.
- Drive Transformative Quality: Lead a crusade for change, transforming supplier interactions from transactional to collaborative, fostering a culture where quality is the universal language.
- Audit with Agility: Conduct dynamic supplier audits with a keen eye for innovation, identifying opportunities for quantum leaps in quality and efficiency.
- Collaborate for Excellence: Unite with suppliers to co-create cutting-edge quality initiatives, making our supply chain a beacon of best practices.
- Metrics that Motivate: Develop and track transformative performance metrics that don’t just measure but motivate, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in supplier quality.
- Continuous Improvement Champion: Be the catalyst for change, spearheading continuous improvement projects that redefine industry standards and set new benchmarks for excellence.
- Navigate Complexity: Master our complex supply chain environment, where decisions can impact a global network of materials, technologies, and people.
- Global Domain Alliance: Forge strong alliances with our international domain partners, synchronising our quality vision across continents and cultures.
- Strategic Supplier Synergy: Develop strategic partnerships with suppliers to navigate the complexities of international trade, regulations, and logistics.
- Quality Intelligence: Harness data from diverse sources to build a Quality Intelligence System that predicts trends and pre-emptively addresses potential issues.
- Risk Management: Support the development of a robust Supply Chain Risk Management framework that identifies potential disruptions in our intricate supply chain and mitigates them with precision.
- Supplier Integration: Integrate suppliers into our product development life cycle, ensuring quality is embedded from the earliest design stages.
- Sustainability Advocate: Champion sustainability, ensuring suppliers meet our stringent environmental and social governance criteria.
- Technology Trailblazer: Leverage cutting-edge technology to explore the streamlining of supplier quality processes, from blockchain concepts for traceability to AI for defect detection.
- Cultural Conductor: Be the cultural conductor, ensuring that our diverse, international teams work in harmony towards a unified quality symphony.
- Educational Initiatives: Lead educational initiatives to elevate the quality knowledge base of our suppliers, turning them into proactive partners in our quality journey.

In this role, you’ll be the architect of a quality ecosystem that’s as intricate as it is innovative, crafting a future where supplier quality isn’t just a standard—it’s a statement. Are you ready to take on the challenge and lead the charge in transforming our supply chain into a paragon of excellence? Join us and be the change.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:

- Familiarity with NATO quality assurance requirements, including AQAP 2110 for design, development, and production, and AQAP 2310 for aviation, space, and defence suppliers.
- Understanding and experience with AS9100 standard requirements for the aerospace industry.
- Capability to ensure continuous improvement and compliance with aerospace quality system requirements.
- Proficiency in conducting external