Quality Engineer

Quality Engineers

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £37,860 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

AWE is currently recruiting for Quality Engineers. We have a number of exciting opportunities across our Quality function, and we are looking for experienced Quality Engineers who have a background within any of the following disciplines;

• Production
• Science
• Engineering
• Manufacturing

As a Quality Engineer you will deliver Quality technical assistance in support of AWE Programmes, applying Quality methods, tools and techniques. To deliver solutions that will maximise productivity, reliability, innovation, and quality to the business.

These roles offer outstanding career development opportunities and are designed to provide skills and experiences to propel you on your Quality career with AWE. Join our team to be part of our dynamic and innovative environment.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have some of the following:

• Proven track record of technical delivery and continuous improvement.
• Technical awareness of product/domain.
• Following Company processes and ensuring Management System is kept up to date.
• Engineering aptitude.
• Problem solving skills.
• Analytical capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support delivery of technical assessments using appropriate methodologies and contributing to capability development.
• Attend design/technical/task reviews, defect reviews and stakeholder meetings as required to ensure Quality is considered at all stages.
• Effective stakeholder management, engaging others in order to complete the tasks.
• Identify and support opportunities for cost savings, efficiency and business improvement.
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

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