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Aerospace Quality Engineer
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Aerospace Quality Engineer
Job Role: Aerospace Quality Engineer
Location: Broughton / Manchester / North Wales
Career Level: Associate Manager / Specialist
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.
Role Purpose
The role is responsible for supporting right-first-time, compliant delivery within a complex aerospace manufacturing environment. The individual will act as a practical quality authority on the shop floor, supporting production continuity while safeguarding product safety, conformity, regulatory compliance, and customer expectations.
In this role, you will:
- Assure product and process compliance across manufacturing, assembly, and shop-floor activities in line with the customer’s Quality Management System, aerospace standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Provide hands-on quality support to production teams, including quality surveillance, inspections, audits, and practical issue resolution to maintain safety, conformity, and production flow.
- Manage and support non-conformities, concessions, deviations, and related quality issues, including containment, investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions.
- Work closely with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Design, Supply Chain Quality, and supplier teams to resolve quality issues, unblock production constraints, and minimize impact to production schedules.
- Support concession and non-conformance workflows by maintaining accurate trackers, progressing actions, preparing inputs for review boards, and ensuring timely stakeholder follow-up.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and non-quality reduction initiatives using structured methods such as 8D, PPS, root cause analysis, FMEA, APQP, SPC, or other recognized quality approaches.
What’s in it for you
At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes:
- 25 days vacation per year
- Private medical insurance
- 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable the delivery of the first-class services we are known for.
Closing Date for Applications
31/08/2026
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.
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Skills and Experience Required
We are looking for experience across a selection of the following skills:
- Experience in quality assurance, manufacturing quality, supply chain quality, or shop-floor quality within aerospace, defence, automotive, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, product conformity, non-conformance management, concessions, and practical production support.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, work instructions, production documentation, and quality records.
- Good knowledge of quality management principles, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, containment, risk management, and continuous improvement.
- Confident working in multi-functional teams across Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Design, Quality, and Supply Chain, with clear communication and stakeholder management skills.
- High attention to detail, strong safety mindset, and the confidence to challenge when product safety, conformity, or process compliance may be at risk.
Set Yourself Apart
- Aerospace manufacturing experience, ideally within wing structures, aerostructures, aircraft assembly, or a similar production environment.
- Familiarity with aerospace quality systems and standards such as EN9100, APQP, PFMEA, control plans, concession processes, or acceptance methods.
- Experience supporting supplier quality topics, including supplier follow-up, material concessions, alternative material issues, deviation management, or supply chain recovery activity.
- Exposure to shop-floor production systems, SAP, or manufacturing/quality tracking tools used to manage work orders, missing parts, concessions, or non-conformance actions.
- Experience supporting quality boards, review boards, Gemba walks, readiness reviews, audits, or operational performance reviews.
- Lean Six Sigma, 8D, PPS, Green Belt, Shainin, Kepner-Tregoe, or equivalent structured problem-solving experience.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability.
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