Date Posted:
2026-05-13
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Position Role Type:
Onsite
Quality Engineer - Collins Aerospace, an RTX business
Leighton Buzzard | Onsite
At Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, we are helping to shape the future of aerospace and defence through intelligent, high-performing solutions that support customers around the world.
We are now looking for a Quality Engineer to join our team in Leighton Buzzard. This is a hands-on quality leadership role where you will support day-to-day quality operations, help maintain audit readiness, drive corrective actions, and ensure our products, processes and people continue to meet the high standards expected in aerospace.
This role would suit someone with a strong quality or aerospace manufacturing background who enjoys problem-solving, working with cross-functional teams, and helping others perform at their best.
What You Will Do
As part of our Quality team, you will play a key role in supporting quality performance, compliance and continuous improvement across the site.
You will:
1. Maintain continual audit preparedness across your area of responsibility and direct reports
2. Review, create and update quality control documents linked to your area
3. Support investigations into nonconformances, corrective actions, customer complaints and customer escapes
4. Facilitate and manage the returns process within the Regional Distribution Centre
5. Provide metrics and KPI reporting to help track quality performance and identify improvement opportunities
6. Support the local Quality Management System and ensure processes remain aligned to regulatory, customer and company requirements
7. Participate in daily MRB meetings and quality clinics
8. Maintain training records for direct reports and keep the area training matrix up to date
9. Work closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain and other support functions
10. Help build a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and quality ownership
11. Support coaching, work scheduling, prioritisation and process execution within the team
What You Will Learn
In this role, you will continue to develop your experience in a highly regulated aerospace environment while gaining exposure to wider operational quality activity across a busy site.
You will build knowledge in:
12. Aerospace quality systems and customer requirements
13. Audit readiness and compliance processes
14. Root cause analysis and corrective action management
15. Customer escape investigations
16. Quality metrics, reporting and performance improvement
17. Cross-functional problem-solving across manufacturing, engineering and operations
18. Continuous improvement and 5S practices in a production environment
Qualifications You Must Have
We are looking for someone with a strong quality mindset and practical experience within manufacturing, aerospace or another regulated technical environment.
You will bring:
19. Experience in a quality and/or aerospace manufacturing environment, ideally within medium to high-volume manufacturing
20. Experience using handheld measuring equipment such as Verniers, height gauges and micrometers
21. Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, including drawing requirements and geometrical tolerances
22. A continuous improvement and 5S mindset
23. Ability to read, understand and interpret technical and engineering information
24. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
25. Confidence working independently and as part of a wider team
26. Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access
27. An understanding of basic management approaches, including work scheduling, prioritising, coaching and process execution
Qualifications We Prefer
It would be beneficial if you also have:
28. ONC / HNC or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing or a related technical discipline
29. Experience working within an aerospace, defence or highly regulated manufacturing environment
30. Experience supporting audits, MRB activity, corrective actions or customer quality investigations
31. Previous experience leading, supervising or coaching a team
32. Knowledge of Quality Management Systems and continuous improvement tools
Why Join Us?
At Collins Aerospace, your work matters. You will be part of a team that supports products and systems used across the aerospace and defence industry, where quality is not just a process, it is essential to safety, reliability and customer trust.
You will join a business that offers real opportunity to learn, grow and contribute to meaningful work in a global organisation, while being part of a local team with a strong focus on collaboration, improvement and delivery.
Role Type
This role is classified as Onsite.
Employees in onsite roles work primarily at the Collins Aerospace site. For this position, regular onsite presence is required due to the hands-on nature of the work and the close interaction with production, quality and operational teams.
Commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.
Ready to help drive quality performance in a world-class aerospace environment?