Principal Quality Engineer

Overview of Responsibilities

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy.

You will be working within quite a small but highly skilled team at Rotherham.

As the Principal Quality Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in acting as the lead for the quality related project and operational activity and following UKAEA’s Project Management Processes, whilst producing and maintaining required project documentation in compliance with Quality Assurance requirements.

You will also be developing Project Quality Management Plans covering both tangible manufactured items and information/documentation/skills). 

Primarily on site presence is required at our Rotherham facility, as the wider Quality team is based in Culham, so you will need to be comfortable as the stand alone Quality representative in Rotherham, whilst regularly reporting back to the Quality management hierarchy.

You will play a key part in the delivery of the CHIMERA programme, it is a unique world-first facility in which we will be able to simulate the extreme conditions found within a fusion power plant, but without any nuclear reactions taking place.

You will need experience of managing quality assurance/control inspections within a workshop and/or manufacturing environment and be able to cleary outline expectations whilst fostering affective working arrangements with external contractors to ensure services are delivered without delay.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Driving and supporting the development of project specific QA/QC supplier quality requirement specifications 
• Ensuring all product requirements, specifications and designs include suitable and effective quality criteria. 
• Establishing product test procedures, control plans and inspection and Test Plans. 
• Planning and managing inspections and surveillance activities on-site and at suppliers to verify product quality. 
• Reviewing of sub-contractor documentation 

Travel to external providers and other UKAEA site will be required. 

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

• A degree or equivalent in an engineering/science discipline. (or equivalent experience) 
• Knowledge and experience of ISO9001 based quality management systems. 
• Experience of full project lifecycle from manufacturing, through Engineering /procurement contractor/construction to operations is preferable. 
• Good understanding of NDT - MPI, DPI, UT & RAD 
• Proficient in specifying Lifetime Quality Records content and approval of final packs. 
• Internal and external auditing 
• Witnessing of FAT & SAT 
• Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships to be developed with people in a wide range of roles and levels of responsibility. PROACTIVE APPROACH