GKN Aerospace

Product Assurance Engineer

GKN Aerospace

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Papendrecht • 🇳🇱 Netherlands

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Salary

💰 €5,561 per month

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Assure and verify product quality planning, realization and delivery activities are completed in accordance with applicable requirements.
  • Customer Satisfaction & Support: Support Program Management/IPT teams, acting as first line POC for Customer and Governmental Quality Representatives, including relationship management, coordinating product buy off, audits, quality related enquires and issue resolution.
  • Exemplify a Safety/Quality-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Cultural Principles, HSE and Quality policies and standards.
  • Support Site/Group/Team leaders in the development and nurturing of the site Quality Culture.
  • Provide quality related support and advice to the organisation for the development / improvement / maintenance of Product Safety and Quality awareness through (unsolicited) consult/feedback and training.
  • Ensure customer, regulatory and GKN system, product and process requirements are identified, documented appropriately (e.g. Program Quality Assurance Plans/Product Quality Control Plans), understood and implemented through effective means of compliance, meeting interested parties’ needs.
  • Work with Engineering (Design and Manufacturing) teams to ensure design specifications and production process capabilities are aligned and to define effective process controls and unambiguous product acceptance criteria to enable and ensure product safety and zero defect delivery.
  • Work with ME and Operations to identify and plan projects/initiatives to attack and reduce or eliminate Cost of Poor Quality at the source (sites).
  • Support and assure the identification, understanding and effective mitigation of product and process related risks and opportunities for improvement.
  • Support and assure responsive and effective problem resolution through Containment, Root Cause Analysis, Corrective Action and Verification of Effectiveness.

Requirements

  • Technical expertise in Manufacturing/Quality Engineering, with a professional qualification (university degree) in engineering or related science or quality management (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical)
  • Strong skills in deploying effective Quality Cultures within organizations by setting the tone for Quality
  • Strong communication, presentation, influencing and negotiation skills, building and maintaining trust and effective internal and external working relationships
  • Ability to work in cross-functional teams
  • Experience of managing and assuring Product Quality Assurance and Improvement in New Product / Process introduction (industrialisation) & existing Production Realisation
  • Demonstrate applicable knowledge, experience and training of APQP/Zero Defects/LEAN/6σ/SPC processes, tools and practices
  • Strong ability to guide and coach APQP/RCCA activities and use critical thinking to develop and implement robust solutions
  • Proven leader of risk management and risked based assurance activities
  • Demonstrated knowledge, experience and training of ISO 9001, AS/EN/JISQ9100, Aviation Regulatory (EASA, FAA etc) & customer quality requirements and application of these into an accredited QMS/BMS to assure compliance
  • Fluent in English language, verbal and written
  • Local compliance with technical Country of Origin/site based regulations. Residence in the Netherlands.
Benefits
  • A gross monthly salary up to €5.561,- based on the CLA Metalektro and in line with your experience and qualifications (CLA Metalektro K)
  • 8% holiday allowance
  • 40 paid holidays for full-time employment
  • Working conditions according to the CAO Metalektro, including an excellent pension scheme (PME) and travel allowance
  • Profit sharing scheme
  • A pleasant and informal working environment

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Manufacturing EngineeringQuality EngineeringProduct Quality AssuranceAPQPLEANSix SigmaStatistical Process ControlRoot Cause AnalysisCorrective ActionProduct Safety
Soft skills
CommunicationPresentationInfluencingNegotiationRelationship ManagementCross-functional TeamworkCoachingCritical ThinkingProblem ResolutionLeadership
Certifications
University Degree in EngineeringQuality Management Certification