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Principal Product Assurance Engineer
2013-01-11 12:38:34| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Astrium brings space to you. Number 1 in Europe and number 3 worldwide, Astrium employs over 17,000 men and women mainly based in five European countries France, Germany, the UK, Spain and the Netherlands. Our technical excellence and extensive prime contractorship experience extend across all sectors of the space business launch vehicles, manned space activities, satellite systems and related services. A vacancy has arisen for an Equipments Product Assurance ManagerEngineer EPAM Principal Product Assurance Engineer with Astrium in Stevenage. The successful applicant will be responsible for the implementation of the Project Quality Assurance requirements to ensure that the delivered Equipment is compliant with the Customers Contractual Requirements. The key responsibilities are as follows Implementation of a product assurance plan. Ensuring that the quality requirements included within the Project Statement Of Work such as the Reviews identified in earlier sections are planned into the equipments schedule. Proactively seek to ensure that preventive actions are taken account of for known quality issues thus avoiding repetitive problems Lesson learned It will be necessary to work in a team environment and be able to provide valued inputs into the team, calling upon any specialist knowledge as appropriate. At times it may be necessary to cross boundaries to achieve the common aim or meet deadlines. Negotiating with external Customers and in house equipment suppliers regarding quality standardsrequirements, waivers, deviations, concessions, production easements etc. Will act where necessary as a single point contact for the resolution of all quality matters and ensure the inputs of Materials Engineering, EEE parts and other specialist disciplines are taken account of. Reviewing Company Standards and proposing changes where necessary to update working processes and to ensure that all equipment documents and drawings are signed by the relevant disciplines before signing and approving them for the configuration Control Board CCB to know they have been checked and approved by PA for all quality aspects. To maintain within the project adequate records to ensure that easy reference is available for monitoring past and present procedural or technical problems. To undertake system audits which assess whether all quality requirements have been addressed and have been or planned to be incorporated into the design solution. Random projectproduct audits will also be conducted to establish optimisation of processes and systems. Support to all Equipment Group disciplines in the creation of suitable, useful metrics, to measure effectiveness and to form a basis of improvement activities. Chairing Non Conformance Review Boards NRB for payload equipment reviews and providing delegated responsibility to Procurement PA for external payload equipments whilst maintaining the Customer interface responsibilities. Ensuring that first and second level closures adequately address the curative and corrective actions required. Undertake the review of nonconformance report statistics to ensure feedback is provided to Design AIT specialists as necessary. To perform other duties as requested by the Equipments head of quality. The successful applicant will demonstrate the following skills and experience Good Communication and facilitation skills Recognise and drive solutions to major issues Knowledge of Product Assurance requirements for Space application, including electronics assembly HNC Degree in appropriate technical subject Experience of managing people directly or indirectly TO APPLY click here
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