Overview
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About the Role
ALTEN UK is looking for a Special Process Engineer to support our aerospace and defence clients in ensuring critical manufacturing processes - such as heat treatment, welding, and NDT - meet the highest quality and compliance standards. You'll play a key role in developing, validating, and auditing special processes in line with customer, regulatory, and NADCAP requirements. This position offers the chance to work with major aerospace suppliers and help them optimise their manufacturing performance.
What You'll Be Doing
* Develop and optimise special processes including heat treatment, welding & brazing, NDT, EDM, chemical processing, shot peening, and coatings.
* Conduct process audits to ensure compliance with NADCAP, AS9100 and customer-specific standards.
* Provide technical support and training to production and engineering teams.
* Support quality assurance through process monitoring, testing, and corrective actions.
* Prepare and maintain process documentation, data cards, and SOPs for internal and customer approval.
Qualifications
What We're Looking For
Essential:
* Hands-on experience with several special processes (e.g. heat treatment, NDT, welding, chemical processing).
* Experience with process compliance, auditing, or supplier quality.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable:
* Background in aerospace, automotive, or defence industries.
* Knowledge of Lean / Six Sigma or continuous improvement methods.
* NDT qualification (e.g. Level 2/3).
* Experience supporting or auditing suppliers to NADCAP standards.
Additional Information
Why join us?
We foster a community of dually talented individuals who are both entrepreneurs and technology specialists. Our teams embody the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling us to develop solutions most efficiently.
Our commitment to sustainable growth is unwavering, and we continuously strive for accelerated transformation and continuous improvement. Through ALTEN labs, mentoring programs, internal universities, and more, we are always pushing boundaries and embracing new possibilities.
We offer incredible opportunities to join inspiring projects in the most innovative companies.
We prioritise your career development with personalised support plans tailored to your own aspirations. We're here to empower you and help you reach your full potential.
Join our passionate team and start building tomorrow, today!
In short you get:
* A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
* A chance to work on the most exciting engineering projects and technologies along with Premium Customers
* A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
* A competitive salary
* Private Medical Insurance
* Pension Scheme
* Cycle-to-work Scheme among many additional benefits
* Social atmosphere, regular gatherings, and team buildings
* Flexible way of working (role dependent)
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