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Job Title – Quality Engineer

Job Location – Tewkesbury

Job ID – 12274

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Tewkesbury and Fleet are part of our ICI division, we work closely with UK Government and Security Agencies primarily in the areas of crypto/cyber security, electronic warfare, counter drone capabilities and situation awareness projects.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Flexible, condensed or reduced working hours available, i.e. 4-day condensed working week, 9-day fortnights,12pm finish every Friday, etc.

• Half day finish on a Friday

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days

• Private medical insurance with optional family cover

• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution

• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)

• Group income protection

• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme

• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

  What the role will involve

  The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Coordinate, lead, plan and conduct internal and external assessments in-line with ISO9001/2015 and internal manual standards

• Analyse internal & Supplier performance, communicate performance information to Manufacturing Team / Suppliers.

• Effective management of L3Harris debug database, providing root cause analysis to support corrective actions

• Generating monthly quality reports

• Support all IPT meetings representing L3Harris QA Team and fully integrated into project teams

• Work with the Design Engineering team & Suppliers to assure compliance to specifications as well as on design / process improvements / corrective actions noted from MRB (what does MRB mean?) returns & Debug database.

• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of Continual Improvement, internal and external audit procedures, and be able to produce report data for management system review.

• Support Supplier selection and development via the Supplier audit process and thereafter measurement and management of effective KPI’s.

• Proactively support company compliance to Health and Safety legislation through adherence to company polices, processes and practices

• Ensure that all business activity is conducted in line with company values, policies and ethics codes of conduct.

  What you’ll bring

  The role of Quality Engineer requires the following experience and skills:

• The successful candidate will be an experienced internal and external quality auditor.

• Previous Quality Assurance experience, and ideally educated to degree level or equivalent in an Engineering or Science related subject.

• Applicants should be established quality professionals with a level of skills and knowledge sufficient to qualify as ‘Member’ of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI).

• Ability to handle multiple projects, high volume activity and establish priorities in a changing environment.

• Previously demonstrable success at introducing continual improvement solutions through the use of Lean techniques.

• Good facilitator and leader of individuals or groups who do not directly report to the function.

  Important to know

  Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

  As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

  We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.

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  SpecQualityEngrg

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.