Supplier Quality Engineer

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity for a Supplier Quality Engineer to play a key role in maintaining and improving supplier quality across an award winning engineering and manufacturing environment.

Working closely with suppliers and internal teams, you will help ensure products and materials meet the required quality standards, support reliable delivery and drive continuous improvement across the supply chain.

This role would suit a proactive quality professional who enjoys solving problems, building supplier relationships and taking ownership of quality processes.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and improve supplier quality processes, procedures and controls.

Monitor supplier performance using quality KPIs and performance data.

Support supplier onboarding, qualification and ongoing performance management.

Conduct supplier audits and ensure agreed improvement actions are completed.

Investigate quality issues, lead root-cause analysis and manage corrective and preventive actions.

Work with suppliers to resolve issues and prevent them from recurring.

Identify supplier risks and support the implementation of improvement plans.

Work closely with Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering and Operations teams to improve product quality and delivery performance.

Maintain accurate quality records and ensure compliance with relevant quality standards.

Drive continuous improvement across supplier quality processes and performance.

About You

You will be an analytical and organised quality professional with experience in supplier quality management within an engineering or manufacturing environment.

You will be confident communicating with suppliers, investigating problems and challenging performance where necessary. A proactive approach, strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities will be important in this role.

Essential Experience

Experience in a Supplier Quality Engineer or similar quality-focused role.

Background in supplier quality within an engineering or manufacturing environment.

Experience conducting supplier audits and monitoring supplier performance.

Knowledge of supplier corrective actions, root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive action processes.

Understanding of quality management systems and ISO 9001.

Strong problem-solving, analytical and organisational skills.

Good communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.

Ability to work independently and manage priorities effectively.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in aerospace, defence, space, telecommunications, RF or another regulated engineering/ electronic environment.
• Help develop the supplier quality process to support ISO9001

requirements and support with longer term ambition of operating at AS9100 level.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working and flexible hours
• Shares to save scheme
• Life assurance
• EV car scheme
• up to 8% employee pension contribution