Product Assurance Engineer

What you will be doing (role duties and responsibilities)

The Product Assurance (PA) Engineer will be responsible for reducing technical risk on our space programme by ensuring that materials, parts, assemblies, software and processes are fit for purpose over the lifetime of the mission.

They will act as an independent technical reviewer, providing support to all engineering activities - verifying compliance to the processes outlined in the engineering management plan.

Activities include:

• Define (in conjunction with the Engineering Manager) product assurance and quality requirements for the programme.
• Translate the requirements into a specific, pragmatic approach for the programme.
• Monitor the implementation of this approach during the design, manufacturing, integration, test and trials phases of the programme.
• Audit the quality management approach of key suppliers.
• Support the component & material procurem...