Quality Systems Auditor

About GKN

Join us and help make things fly every day

A Truly Global Business

Every day, around the world, we help aircrafts fly further, faster and greener. We’re the world’s leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. With over 15,000 employees across 41 manufacturing sites in 13 countries serving over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers with sales of £2.8bn.

Together as “one GKN” we’re moving our business and industry forward developing technologies that rapidly decarbonise aircraft, and innovating to help build a new generation of planes that produce zero emissions. We’re putting sustainability at the heart of what we do; driving our objective to becoming a net zero greenhouse gas emissions business before 2050

Making a Difference

It’s great to know you’re making a difference to the future of aviation Whatever part you play you’ll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers. Sitting within our Defence Airframes business line at our Portsmouth manufacturing plant you’ll do just that. Established in 1990, Portsmouth is one of our newer locations with a workforce of circa 200 employees. The site is a leading technology provider for the aerospace, marine and military markets supplying an extensive range of specialist fuel tanks and flotation systems, as well as engineering expertise and support for fixed and rotary wing aircrafts, land vehicles, missiles, UAVs, torpedoes and marine vessels. Our customer base includes Airbus, BAE Systems, Bell, Boeing, General Automics, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls Royce, Sikorsky, Saab, MOD.

Job Summary
As a Quality Systems Auditor you’ll fulfil the role of an Internal Auditor. You’ll report to the Quality Manager joining the Quality Team. You’ll take responsibility for conducting internal audits of the Quality Management System, processes against Regulatory Requirements, Industry Standards, Customer and GKN Aerospace requirements within our departments such as Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Logistics and Customer Support. You’ll assist the Site Quality Manager in the delivery of audit activities that supports our audit plans and schedules. This will include:

- Participating in audit engagement planning, scoping, and follow-up activities
- Ensuring adequate preparation for the conduct of the audits and that the objectives of the audit are fully achieved
- Ensuring that audits are conducted in accordance with site audit procedures, are adequately documented and aligned to the site audit plan
- Evaluating the audit evidence, non-conformities and providing recommendations and opportunities for improvement
- Communicating subsequent recommendations, including risk identification and feed back to the Site Quality Manager
- Supporting the root cause and corrective action activities
- Promoting Quality Culture across the site
- Identify and share across the business, best practices and support continuous improvement of the QMS and its processes

How You'll Contribute
To help us make a difference, you’ll bring your passion and talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:
**Essential**:

- Demonstrable experience within a Manufacturing environment
- Experience of working in a quality assurance environment
- Confident communication skills, able to work cross functionally across the business
- Intermediate level of Microsoft Office suite in particular Word and Excel
- Minimum requirement GCSE grade C or above in Maths and English (or equivalent)

**Desirable**:

- Certification as an Internal or External Auditor through a certified Training Partner
- Demonstrable experience within an aerospace or automotive environment
- Experience in undertaking Internal Audits against the audit process requirements defined within ISO 19011
- Experience in Practical Problem Solving (PPS) and Route Cause and Corrective Actions (RCCA) Techniques in order to provide effective audit follow up / closure assessments
- A HNC or equivalent in Manufacturing Engineering
- Demonstrable knowledge of aviation regulators and aerospace quality requirements

What We'll Offer
Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

- Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
- Life Assurance 8 x salary
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Income protection
- Shopping discounts
- Cycle To Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A collaborative, dynamic working environment

Please note the working hours for this role are 7.30am till 4.15pm Monday to Friday with every second Friday a non-working day ‘Free Friday’.

As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a gl