Product Assurance Engineer

Product Assurance Engineer – 6 month contract - Alton

Our client is looking for an experienced Engineer to join the Product Assurance team within their Space Business Unit. Ideally with a background in Product Assurance, you will have strong and broad engineering knowledge. Good communications skills are essential, and you will have a proven ability in stakeholder management, both internal and external, customer and supplier. Attention to detail and a proactive approach are critical to this role.

Your Experience:
• Product assurance experience (ECSS and/or NASA standards would be an advantage)
• Ability to understand, tailor and communicate engineering processes
• Problem solving – strong mind-set and knowledge of processes / tools
• Support to planning and monitoring of test and verification campaigns
• Design and development phases of products (hardware, software and/or service)
• Non-Conformance Management
• Involvement in delivery of complex systems
• Involvement in Design Reviews
• Experience of systems deployed in challenging/unique environments
• Knowledge of EEE parts and/or RAMS

What will you be doing?

• Define (in conjunction with the project and Product Integrity teams) product assurance and quality requirements for projects.
• Translate the requirements into a specific, pragmatic approach for the project.
• Monitor the implementation of product assurance measures during the design, manufacturing, integration, test and trials phases of the programme.
• Audit and monitor the quality management approach of key suppliers.
• Support the component & material procurement / selection process against the space environment requirements.
• Support the identification of the qualification requirements and the qualification plan authoring for the hardware design.
• Chair non-conformance investigations.
• Ensure that technical analyses are reviewed for engineering quality.
• Provide support to test campaigns.
• Report on activities to the project manager and engineering manager – in support of monitoring engineering performance metrics.
• Ensure that key engineering reviews (e.g. manufacturing readiness reviews, test review boards) are effective.
• Perform key inspections of components, assemblies and facilities.
• Delegate to/mentor engineers in PA/QA tasks where required.