Purpose of role and key accountabilities: * To provide Quality and Inspection support for both existing and new business opportunities and to develop the Right First-Time philosophy required to become a leading supplier of quality components to the aerospace industry * Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process, in line with business standards and customer requirements * Check and verify the compliance of components produced at all stages within business * First article inspection procedures * Identify reoccurring quality issues and communicate them to the chief inspector along with recommendations * Assist in the 5Y quality procedure and produce rout cause analysis of product failures * Incorporate standardisation of jigs, fixtures and tooling wherever possible * Non-conformance procedures * Represent quality function at team meetings * Support, develop and improve the relationship with our quality contacts within our customer base * Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit our products and manufacturing processes * To work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required. * To support, develop, maintain and improve the company’s quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system * To control calibration activity of all instrument on regular basis * To conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and techniques to ensure that the manufacturing processes meet customer requirements Core skills/attributes needed: - Previous Internal auditing experience - Experienced in an engineering background - Ability to interpret engineering drawings and specifications - Technical knowledge & experience within the aerospace sector preferred - Competent in using the following equipment; verniers, micrometres, bore micrometers, height gauges, DTI (Digital Test Indicators); - Experience in a quality control environment preferred - Provide 1st Article Inspection Reports - Working to ISO 9001 and ISO 5001 - Experience of Machining / Fabrications and Treatments - Attention to detail - Ability to work on own initiative and with minimum supervision - CMM experience advantageous but not essential - Experience in lean tools such as 8D, Kaizen (Continues Improvement) processes - Chemical and special processes knowledge - Aerospace manufacturing background ideally specific NADCAP experience - New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP + PPAP Awareness