Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer position available in Somerset West.

A renowned Aviation Engineering company is looking for a Quality Engineer to join their team on a full-time permanent basis in the Helderberg Area, Cape Town.

Excellent salary (subject to background and experience) on offer and internal career advancement opportunities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution is essential.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in the manufacturing industry essential.
• The ability to walk and stand for prolonged periods, work in a dusty and noisy environment with exposure to raw materials and/or finished products is essential.
• A willingness to travel locally and abroad on supplier and customer visits is essential.
• Experience in operating in a multi-project environment with different customers is advantageous.
• Demonstrated ability to work on a global level interfacing with diverse cultures is advantageous.
• Broad manufacturing knowledge with regards to requirements covering design, certification and production of aerospace products is advantageous.
• Expertise in AS9100D and POA Part 21G is advantageous.
• Expertise in composite design and manufacturing processes is advantageous.
• Expertise in Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and measuring is advantageous.
• Experience in SAP and 1Factory or equivalents is advantageous.

Key responsibilities:

• Have a clear understanding of Aerospace, customer, composite quality requirements.
• Review and approve clear and robust inspection instructions to ensure customer expectations are met (incoming, moulding, stage, final etc.).
• Manage requirements to certify and release components to customers.
• Show compliance to the customer requirements via compliance matrix.
• Complete FAIs, source inspections and coordinate customer inspections as required.
• Conduct lessons learnt.
• Internal concession signs off & closure.
• Create and close off customer concessions.
• Facilitate FMEA.