Contract Quality Engineer Contract: 3 months Rate: £21.56ph - PAYE Hours: 37 per week Location: Cheltenham - onsite Reporting to the Quality Manager, this role is designed to work closely with all departments on-site to offer extensive support, guidance, and, when necessary, hands-on contributions to enhance and sustain the client's Quality Management Systems across people, processes, and products. Job description * Locally manage and undertake both internal and external audits as required in conjunction with the relevant owner to the regulatory and local requirements. * Performing internal audits to ensure compliance against all regulatory requirements * Support and coach Operations to ensure rejects have robust containment, Root Cause, Corrective and Preventive Actions. * Support all areas of the business on all matters relating to the maintenance of the quality systems, including procedures and processes. * Support the development and implementation of Safety Management System (SMS) across the business * Support the clients Management by providing support during both internal and external audits and management of the ETQ (audit report system) * Support the provision of coaching on quality tools (PDCA, Root cause analysis). * Assisting the monitoring and analysis of supplier performance and the execution of supplier audits. Skills * You will have experience in a similar role, within an aerospace AS9110 /AS 9100 environments, but other process driven (e.g. automotive) may be considered. * Internal Audit qualification to a recognised standard * A good understanding of EASA Part 145 and other aerospace regulations. * Experience of working with internal teams as well as customers is essential - managing complaints and problem solving with root cause analysis. * Experience of dealing with regulatory authorities. * Knowledge and experience in quality improvement and relevant tools (PDCA, Root cause analysis). * Lean skills/experience * You will be confident, driven, an excellent communicator with a hands-on approach. * Strong statistical, analytical skills. * Good Microsoft office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) * International travel when required. * Flexibility within the Quality Team to cover other job responsibilities