Senior Product Assurance Engineer

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New vacancy: Senior Product Assurance Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Product Assurance Engineer to strengthen our Quality Management Team based in Papendrecht. 

As a Senior Product Assurance Engineer, you are a member of our Fokker Landing Gear division. Your role as a Certifying entity is to deploy and lead the product assurance team, and the associated quality activities aligned with the strategic direction of the organization. This is a vital position for the continuous development of both the quality processes and the Product Assurance Team’s competencies. The role will be the focal point for quality related continuous improvement working across multi-functional teams to drive results and objectives aligned to the strategic direction of the Fokker Landing Gear and GKN Aerospace’s business. 

Fokker Landing Gear

Landing Gear, part of GKN Fokker Aerospace, is a recognized specialist in landing gear and related systems. We focus on the design and development, production and assembly of complete landing gears, as well as the repair and reassembly of systems already in use. In doing so, we work on the most famous aircraft and helicopters; think of the Apache combat helicopter, the F-35 Lightning II (JSF), the Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 and the multipurpose NH90 maritime combat helicopter.

What you'll do

• Lead the development and deployment of advanced quality planning activities within GKNAF, including: 
  • Setting up/maintaining customer quality requirements into Q plan/contract/compliance matrix,
  • Supporting the evaluation, co-ordination and monitoring of achieved levels of conformity,
  • Deployment of APQP tools and techniques.
• Provide support, advice and guidance to other team members with Quality tools, lean tools and techniques, enabling them to independently ensure that Quality requirements are met. 
• Ensure that Quality staff is deployed and developed to attain the necessary knowledge. 
• Ensure compliance to process and procedures to support an efficient business.
• Promote an effective a desirable quality culture.
• Lead the production part approval, through First Article Inspection. 
• Assure the adherence to the Quality system within the business by the business. 
• Assure that certification processes are consistently defined and applied within the business.
• Facilitate the use of 8 Disciplines (8D) within the business area. 
• Perform initial investigations to assess probable cause, informing the accountable function and ensuring corrective and preventative action has been taken. 
• Provide support to customers/authorities as necessary.
• Provide product quality performance indicators.
• Establish problem definition, root cause analysis, customer protection and corrective and preventative action. 
• Lead investigations into customer reported quality problems.
• Where necessary, interface with the Procurement function on quality issues in the supply chain.
• Guide and advise the business, ensuring the appropriate use of quality tools and techniques.
• Act as a guide and point of contact for customer, supplier and airline quality representatives as necessary.

What you'll bring

• A completed technical/engineering degree, or ability to demonstrate knowledge to the equivalent depth and have a technical apprenticeship in an engineering environment. 
• Solid collaborative leadership capability in a manufacturing environment. 
• Self-starter and able to work on own initiative.
• Hands-on and solution oriented. 
• Able to coach, mentor and advise individuals and teams on product quality matters.
• Deep practical knowledge of proactive quality tools such as those within APQP/PPAP.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and technical data.
• In-depth experience of problem solving using appropriate quality tools and techniques. 
• Effective communication skills for liaising with a wide range of people and departments both internal and external to GKNAF at all levels. 
• flexibility to work as a commit