| Head of Equipment Supply QA To manage the Equipment Supply Quality group in Stevenage. This group is in charge of ensuring the Quality Assurance of the equipments which are supplied for Telecom Mechanical Platform and Antenna programs, for some Earth Observation Science, EOS-UK programs and Mechanism group. Main responsibilities: Manage the Supply Quality group team in terms of workload, resource deployment, development and training , key skills availability and team animation, reporting Guarantee that the Quality policy and the Equipment supply quality process is fully applied for all the purchased Equipment responsibility and in particular verify that all non nominal issues (NCR, RFD, RFW) have been fully analyzed and properly closed with the projects. Support the Equipment Supply Management team activity Manage the interfaces with the support entities, the BU's Quality organisations and manage the day to day administration and section tasks (budget and spent hours control,) Qualifications and/or Skills Essential: Management skills, deep expertise in Quality Assurance for Space, capability to impose an independent Quality point of view even under pressure, capability to be fully recognized by BU's and Supplier Quality organisations. Desirable: Knowledge and technical background in equipment, expertise in Equipment production process, good knowledge of Telecom and ESA requirements Previous Experience Essential: Experience in the Quality Assurance for Space Equipment or experience in Space Equipment Supply, experience in the domain of mechanical structure, mechanisms or, Electric equipments. Desirable: Management experience KEY SKILLS Management skills : ability to manage a team but also ability to manage and "sell" the activity . Experience in the Supply Management of High Tech/high constraints Equipment. Ideally in Space business but it could be also Aeronautics or Military. Knowledge of Quality rules in Space/Aeronautic business which apply to the development and the production of Equipment. We are speaking here of "Operational Quality" for equipment not ISO certification of a company or general Quality system. Good technical background (Engineering level) in mechanical/mechanisms/structure. The successful candidate will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment. Mylen Recruitment Ltd is a recruitment agency specialising in Aerospace, Automotive, Aviation, Design, Mechanical, Electronic, Production, IT and Software, Engineering. |