Supplier Quality Engineer
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Job Summary
Job Title Supplier Quality Engineer
Job Location Bristol
Job ID 31730
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
From 11 UK sites our team of nearly 1000 people delivers unique capabilities across space air land sea and cyber for military security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.
L3Harris in Bristol is our headquarters for our Maritime UK businesses which provides warship automation systems through control and simulation solutions that are in service on Albion Class Landing Platform Docks and Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers. More systems are being developed and delivered for Type 26 and Type 31 frigates. We have additional Maritime UK sites across Burgess Hill Barrow-In-Furness and Portchester. Together we are powering the Royal Navys adoption of autonomous surface vehicle technology as well as delivering autonomous capability to UK ports harbours and offshore energy service providers.
A few of our employee benefits are:
- Half day finish on a Friday
- 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
- Private medical insurance with optional family cover
- Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution
- Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
- Group income protection
- Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan dental insurance gym membership critical illness cover cycle to work scheme and electric car scheme
- Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support
- Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)
What the role will involve
This role is a quality professional that makes a key contribution to onboarding and developing new suppliers assessing supplier quality and ensuring products received are defect free. The Supplier Quality Engineer is the liaison between the supply chain management team and suppliers to investigate analyse and resolve supplier quality issues by conducting audits defect trend analysis and leading continuous improvement projects to increase the supplier capability to consistently meet Maritime UK requirements.
The responsibilities of your role will include the following:
- Supplier sourcing and development
- Work with engineering and supply chain to understand requirements and assess the supplier technical capability and roadmap
- Perform supplier audits for risks and capabilities
- Specify supplier deliverable quality and compliance requirements
- Ensure there is a specification matrix
- Align product verification/test between supplier and L3H acceptance test commissioning and installation activities
- Ensure that design to cost is met
- Ensure product compliance to specification
- Identify issues and analyse trends
- Monitor Supplier Initiated Non-Conformances (SINs) and Non-Conformances (NCs) to identify and resolve trends
- Ensure quality alignment throughout the supplier organization
- Drive Root Cause & Corrective Actions (RCCA) from technical Supplier Corrective Action Review (SCARs) and NCs
- Report trends
- Create and implement Return to Green plans
- Actively participate in all technical reviews and gates including design reviews readiness reviews first article inspections and acceptance events ensuring compliance to specification
- Participate in the Quality Alert and containment process
- Perform onsite supplier assessments
- Ensure build & test processes are robust and repeatable with no variability
- Ensure the product can be produced in the most economic efficient and effective manner
- Utilise tools and techniques such as FMEA
- Continuous improvement mindset
What youll bring
The role requires the following experience and skills:
- Degree in Mechanical Electrical and/or Manufacturing Engineering combined with experience of product design and manufacture
- Extensive knowledge and practical application of ISO standards (ISO9001 ISO27001 ISO14001 ISO45001)
- Application of Quality (APQP PPAP FMEA) and Lean tools and techniques
Important to know
Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Project / Program Management
- Change Management
- Succession Planning
- Procurement
- Program Management
- ISO 9001
- Lean Six Sigma
- Quality Systems
- Quality Management
- Supplier Management
- HACCP
- As9100
About Company
At L3Harris, we anticipate and mitigate risk with agile end-to-end solutions that meet our customers' mission-critical needs across all domains.
