Supplier Quality Assurance Lead
Job Title: Supplier Quality Assurance Lead
Location: Sheffield. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £50,818 + depending on experience
What you’ll be doing:
- You will manage and take responsibility for a portfolio of suppliers and all quality-related activities including FAIs without daily supervision
- You will identify any adverse trends, recommending, and initiating corrective actions with suppliers to ensure effective closure
- Understand and deploy quality process improvement techniques to ensure that continuous improvement is maintained within the Supply Chain
- You will mentor a small team of Quality professionals as and when required, and support other members of the overall Quality Team
- Maintain compliance to Business Unit’s local Quality Business Management System and Project Quality Plans
- You will promote the value of Quality throughout the Business and Supply Chain
- You may have international or domestic travel dependent on supplier portfolio and business need
Your skills and experiences:
- Experience with relevant quality standards e.g. ISO 9001
- Previous experience in a Supplier Assurance Quality role, including supplier audit and improvement planning within the supply chain
- A good working knowledge of Lean manufacturing/Six Sigma/ Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
- Data Analytics and business reporting experience
- Risk management experience
- A working knowledge of welding/machining or casting would be desirable
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Supplier Quality team:
You will be working within the Quality team, which is a small and dynamic team, split into various parts – Project, Supplier, Control and compliance, working across multiple sites. The team is small, working with existing projects and manufacturing
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 17th February 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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