Position Overview
Supply Chain Quality Manager – Location: Stevenage (hybrid), Hours: 37 per week, Contract Length: till Dec 2026, Rate: £34.70 per hour (umbrella) or £26 per hour (PAYE), Client: Aerospace.
Key Responsibilities
* Act as the primary operational interface with suppliers, building strong, trusted partnerships.
* Ensure On Time, On Quality and On Cost supplier performance to protect business operations.
* Manage supplier milestones, product life cycle reviews, and delivery coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
* Lead progress meetings, gate reviews, and manage changes, deviations, waivers, and non conformities.
* Monitor supplier performance, risks, and industrial maturity; define and drive recovery and improvement action plans.
* Support development and industrialisation phases by bringing manufacturing, capacity, and supplier maturity expertise.
* Define and execute supplier qualification, surveillance, inspection, and audit activities using client quality standards and tools.
* Collaborate closely with Programme, Engineering, Product Assurance, Supply Chain, and external partners.
* Contribute to supplier selection, development strategies, and cross‑functional forums (MFT, VRB, SED, TEB).
Skills & Experience
* Engineering or master's degree in a related field.
* Background in Procurement, Quality, Programmes or Projects, Production/AIT, or Engineering Project Management skills.
* Leadership skills.
* Industry: Aerospace, Space systems or similar industry.
* Knowledge of Space Systems and processes around satellite equipment development / production is a plus.
* English at negotiation level; additional language may be required depending on location (Germany, France, UK, Spain).
Additional Requirements
Awareness of potential compliance risks and commitment to act with integrity; ability to accommodate a reasonable amount of travel for business needs (typically once or twice a month).
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