Senior Quality Engineer

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £47,690 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

The Senior Quality Engineer will serve as Subject Matter Expert for Metrology in Future Quality, and support Inspection functions within Operations Quality.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have some of the following:

• Ability to provide tactical insight on the needs of the business.
• Tools to deliver superior performance in a manner that achieves commitment and buy-in.
• Influencing and stakeholder and relationship management skills, and collaborative working with a broad cross section of customers, suppliers, and functions.
• Implementing appropriate and tailored solutions in a cost effective and cost-efficient way.
• Good knowledge of the national and international standards for quality and business management systems.
• Good depth and breadth of knowledge within their technical field. In particular, must have substantial experience of programming CMMs using Quindos and PC-DMIS.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and deliver technical assessments using appropriate methodologies and contributing to capability development.
• Support the implementation and development of tools, techniques and validation methods to ensure Right First Time methodology.
• Generate KPI data and reports to support improvement through accurate metrics and action plans.
• Engagement with relevant stakeholders across AWE to promote Quality influence at all stages of projects and programmes.
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

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