Supplier Quality Engineer
Published 10.17.2025 | Company: Safran Electronics & Defense | Job field: Quality | Location: Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom | Contract type: Permanent | Contract duration: Full-time | Professional status: Employees / Staff
Job Description
What does the role look like? We are seeking a proactive Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) to drive continuous improvement and ensure supplier performance meets our quality, cost, and delivery standards. This role focuses on retrospective APQP activities – analysing and improving existing supplier processes, validating quality controls, and implementing robust corrective actions to enhance product reliability. The ideal candidate will have a solid quality engineering toolkit, a problem‑solving mindset, and the confidence to influence suppliers and internal stakeholders alike.
* Lead retrospective APQP reviews to assess supplier product and process performance post‑launch.
* Drive root cause analysis and ensure sustainable corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
* Evaluate and develop supplier quality systems using tools such as FMEA, PPAP, MSA, Control Plans, 8D, and SPC.
* Conduct supplier process audits, capability studies, and performance assessments to identify improvement opportunities.
* Support change control processes and ensure all supplier changes meet quality and regulatory requirements.
* Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (Procurement, Engineering, Operations) to align supplier quality initiatives with business objectives.
* Support supplier onboarding, qualification, and risk mitigation activities.
* Maintain documentation and metrics to track supplier performance and drive accountability.
* Conduct audits for QMS compliance.
Job Requirements
What will you bring to the role?
Essential skills:
* Proven experience as a Supplier Quality Engineer, Quality Engineer, or Manufacturing Quality professional within an engineering, automotive, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing environment.
* Excellent working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, and core quality tools (FMEA, 8D, SPC, etc.).
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable skills:
* Hands‑on experience with retrospective quality improvement projects and process validation.
* Good ability to read engineering drawings.
* Experience with ISO 9001, AS9100, or similar standards.
* Exposure to Lean / Six Sigma methodologies.
* Be able to periodically travel.
But what else? (advantages, specific features, etc.)
* Competitive salary
* Company performance bonus scheme
* Pension scheme – up to 10% employer contribution
* Private medical insurance
* Comprehensive health cash plan
* 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Flexible benefits programme (buy & sell holiday allowance, discounted gym memberships, maternity/adoption leave – up to 52 weeks, first 26 weeks at full pay, subsequent 26 at 50% basic pay and paternity/non‑pregnant parent co‑adopter leave 4 weeks full pay)
* Structured training & opportunities to progress
Company Information
Safran is an international high‑technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defence and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.
Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defence industry in TIME magazine’s “World’s best companies 2024” ranking.
Safran Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments: on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions: observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets.
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Stratford Road WV10 7EH
Wolverhampton
England United Kingdom
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