Airbus
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Job Description:
Location: Prestwick, Ayrshire
Hours: 37 hours per week (half-day Friday)
Type: Full-time
Salary: £38,466
Grade: D
Travel Required: Occasional
Work Location: Site-based (100%)
Join One of Ayrshire’s largest Engineering Employers
Prestwick Aerosystems is proud to continue Ayrshire’s long-standing aircraft manufacturing tradition. From our Prestwick site, we manufacture aircraft wing structures used on Airbus commercial aircraft worldwide. As part of the Airbus family, we play a key role in delivering safe, reliable, and high-quality aerospace products.
The Opportunity:
Accountable for the Quality Engineering activities within the respective project and working in support of the operational requirements, ensuring that quality is maintained by adherence to customer and regulatory authority requirements. Assist in the control of manufacturing processes and the application of problem-solving and improvement tools.
To provide assistance in the development and deployment of the Quality Policy and Strategy, provide support for the key project quality activities, and ensure that project quality issues are effectively reported and managed.
How you will contribute to the team:
- Support the delivery of a robust Corrective and Preventive Action process which establishes clear Root Cause and identifies effective solutions for Internal, Customer, and Supplier Product Quality non-conformances.
- Support production activities, ensuring all Quality Engineering processes are effectively deployed in line with the customer and regulatory authority requirements, such as EASA Part 21G and AS9100 Rev D.
- Ensure appropriate inspection planning, Last Article Inspection (LAI), and First Article Inspection/Verification (FAI/FAV) and delegated source inspection programs are generated and maintained by the project.
- Support Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Control Plans, Statistical Process Control (SPC) as part of overarching Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for key products.
- Manage the Material Review Board (MRB) process and ensure that all items are appropriately dispositioned and robust corrective action is established and effectively discharged.
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About you:
- Qualified to a minimum HNC level or equivalent in a related discipline.
- Experience preferably in Aerospace or equivalent manufacturing industry.
- Understanding and use of standard Quality Tools and Techniques.
- Knowledge of AS9100 Rev D as well as regulatory authority approval and certification requirements. Knowledge of engineering systems including awareness of drawings and systems as applied within our major customers such as Boeing and Airbus would be an advantage.
- A good working knowledge of Microsoft Packages – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access.
Why Prestwick Aerosystems?
At our Prestwick facility, you’ll find a friendly, forward-thinking workplace with excellent rewards and opportunities to grow your career.
What we will offer you:
- 37-hour week (half-day Friday)
- Defined contribution pension (4% employee / 8% employer)
- Shift premiums up to 33% (where applicable)
- Life assurance (4x basic salary)
- Overtime paid at time and a half
- 33 days annual leave (rising with service)
- Annual bonus linked to company performance
- Virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Program, and wellbeing support
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Free on-site car parking
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What Happens Next:
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Successful applicants will be asked to complete:
- Right to Work check
- Employment reference checks
- Disclosure Scotland
- Pre-employment Medical (Drug and Alcohol testing)
Company:
Prestwick Aerosystems Limited
Employment Type:
Permanent
Experience Level:
Professional
Job Family:
Quality Assurance
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Prestwick Aerosystems is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religious belief.
As a part of Airbus, Prestwick Aerosystems is committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Prestwick Aerosystems or Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.
At Prestwick Aerosystems, we support you to work, connect, and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
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