We are looking for a Design Assurance Engineer to join our Christchurch or Letchworth, UK location!
As a Design Assurance Engineer, you will provide assurance that the design work we are doing follows both quality and regulatory standards. This is your opportunity to have an impact in a global organisation, which is pushing the boundaries of technology.
To be effective you will firstly successfully plan and implement quality assurance audits on system, hardware, firmware and software development activities. Secondly, you will take a key role in process improvement activities. If you can be effective at both and you have a quality/design assurance background, we want to hear from you.
Location: Christchurch UK
We Take Care of Our People
Work-life balance through our Hybrid working, flexitime program and condensed work week (role dependent) I Paid Time Off I Retirement with Employer Match I Health and Wellness Benefits I Learning and Development Opportunities I Competitive Pay I Bonus Scheme I Recognition I I
Your Challenge
* Be responsible for the maintenance and deployment of company procedures, codes of practice, forms and other guidance material as relevant to the Engineering department.
* Plan and implement quality assurance audits on system, hardware, firmware and software development activities to assess compliance to defined company procedures, codes of practices and other guidance material.
* Perform independent objective reviews of the outputs of engineering work activities to assess compliance to defined company procedures, codes of practices and other guidance material.
* Be a member of the engineering change control board performing the quality approval for change requests.
* Resolve non-compliance issues effectively and at an appropriate level of the department or company.
* Provide feedback to engineering management and staff on the results of quality assurance activities.
* Liaise with, and host, external auditors.
* Ensure that quality records are correctly developed, maintained and archived by the Engineering projects and department.
* Take a key role in process improvement activities.
* Report directly to the delegated Chief Engineer on engineering quality issues in the project or departmental context.
* When necessary or appropriate, report directly to the Head of Programmes & Engineering on significant unresolved engineering quality issues.
What You Bring
* Broad knowledge and experience across a wide range of engineering disciplines to enable effective communication with systems, hardware, firmware & software engineers and managers.
* Experience in a quality or design assurance based role ideally within an aerospace environment, or alternatively, knowledge and experience of RTCA DO-178B/C and/or DO-254 with a desire to move into a design assurance engineering role.
* Good level of education in a computer science, engineering or science discipline
* Ideally experience or knowledge of Aerospace regulatory guidance / standards e.g. AS9100, ARP4754A, RTCA DO-254, RTCA DO-178B/C.
* Configuration Management and Product Lifecycle Management tool experience.
* Process definition / modelling (e.g. BPMN) experience.
* Standout colleague with good social skills and the ability to communicate confidently and persuasively with a wide variety of people.
* Ability to collaborate and make pragmatic decisions that ensure compliance and quality while considering cost, schedule and risk.
* Excellent organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
* Ambitious and the ability to work without supervision
Who We Are
Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solution division is a trusted, proven leader, delivering superior products and services that meet the defense and aerospace industries' toughest challenges with best-in-class value. In 2017, Curtiss-Wright relocated its Avionics, Sensors & Controls and Industrial Business Units into a brand new, purpose-built 160,000 ft2 facility at Bournemouth International Airport.
The state-of-the-art facility has extensive design and manufacturing capabilities as well as in-house environmental stress screening. The facility is committed to quality and excellence in manufacturing for our flight recorder, air data computer, video management systems, computing systems, mission displays and video recorder products.
As the design center of excellence for flight recorders and air data computers, the units had to be lightweight and small – crash survivability requirements exceeding the existing standards for commercial aircraft.