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• Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
• Pension : maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities : Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more .
• Private Medical Insurance: Eligible employees are enrolled as standard into the company funded Private Medical Insurance benefit.

• Provide independent quality assurance and governance across NPI manufacturing programmes
• Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering and Manufacturing, influencing decisions to ensure quality, cost, and delivery targets are achieved
• Lead risk identification and mitigation activities, embedding a proactive quality mindset early in the product lifecycle
• Drive process effectiveness and continuous improvement, ensuring manufacturing methods are robust, repeatable, and compliant
• Conduct and lead internal audits and independent assessments, reporting outcomes to senior stakeholders and ensuring timely resolution of findings
• Analyse non-conformance and defect data, leading structured root cause investigations and implementing sustainable corrective actions
• Facilitate and support PFMEA/DFMEA activities, ensuring risks are actively managed and reduced
• Support industrial validation and product introduction, ensuring readiness for manufacture at scale
• Champion the effective use of systems (e.g. SAP) for non-conformance management and quality data insights
• Collaborate across functions and sites to share best practice and drive quality excellence

• High level of autonomy and influence across critical programmes
• Opportunity to shape how quality is embedded in NPI, not just audit it
• Exposure to complex, high-reliability products in a cutting-edge environment
• Direct visibility to senior stakeholders and real impact on business performance

• Proven experience in a senior quality or product assurance role within manufacturing or engineering
• Strong background in process-based management systems and continuous improvement
• Demonstrable experience of risk management and structured problem solving (e.g. 8D, 5 Whys, PFMEA)
• Experience conducting audits and driving compliance within regulated environments
• Solid understanding of aerospace/defence quality standards such as AS9100 (or equivalent)
• Ability to influence, challenge and engage stakeholders at all levels
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to turn data into actionable improvements

• Knowledge of APQP/PPAP (AS9145) and First Article Inspection (AS9102)
• Experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI) in a complex manufacturing environment
• Experience in the application of Lean Six Sigma Approach

About the Company

Our client is a rapidly growing UK technology business operating at the forefront of Space and Defence innovation. With major programme wins, continued investment, and cutting‑edge RF and microwave technologies supporting next‑generation satellite communications, this is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation delivering mission‑critical hardware for some of the world's most demanding applications.

Working within a collaborative and highly technical environment, you'll play a key role in ensuring quality, reliability and compliance across advanced space payload programmes, helping to drive the future of satellite communications and high‑speed connectivity.

As a Payload Product Assurance Engineer, you'll be responsible for ensuring robust product assurance activities are embedded throughout the entire product lifecycle, from concept and development through to manufacture and customer delivery.

• Leading product assurance activities across payload and space hardware programmes
• Ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory and industry standards including ECSS, ESA and NASA requirements
• Working closely with engineering, manufacturing and test teams to embed quality throughout the product lifecycle
• Supporting the selection and qualification of space‑grade electronic components and materials
• Reviewing and approving quality plans, manufacturing documentation, non‑conformance reports and release documentation
• Leading root cause investigations, corrective actions and Non‑Conformance Review Boards (NRBs)
• Participating in design reviews, manufacturing readiness reviews, customer reviews and programme gate reviews
• Monitoring quality metrics, process capability and continuous improvement activities
• Maintaining robust configuration control, traceability and documentation
• Supporting supplier quality and material/process compliance activities

We're seeking an experienced engineering or quality professional who enjoys working within highly regulated and technically demanding environments.

• Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Physics or a related discipline
• Experience within Product Assurance, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Quality or Reliability Engineering
• Experience working with complex electronic, RF, aerospace, defence or space products
• Strong understanding of quality management systems, non‑conformance management and root cause analysis
• Knowledge of space‑grade electronic components, PCB manufacturing and aerospace soldering standards
• Familiarity with ECSS, ESA or NASA quality standards
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams

• Previous experience supporting satellite, payload or wider space programmes
• Knowledge of AS9100 and ISO 9001 quality systems
• Experience with configuration management, FMEA, risk management, qualification or acceptance testing
• Experience supporting supplier or customer audits

Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Successful candidates will also be required to satisfy UK Security Clearance requirements.

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge Space and Defence programmes with global impact
• Excellent career development and progression opportunities within a rapidly growing organisation
• Collaborative engineering culture where innovation, quality and continuous improvement are genuinely valued
• Company pension scheme with up to 8% employer contribution, plus life assurance and income protection

If you're passionate about quality, enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, and want to contribute to the future of space technology, we'd love to hear from you.

Ideal for an experienced quality professional with a track record of implementing Quality Assurance / Quality Control programmes on major capital projects—developing and executing quality plans, driving compliance to customer requirements and applicable standards, and influencing internal and external stakeholders to deliver right-first-time outcomes.

The SKAO Product Assurance team is responsible for the definition and implementation of the quality assurance and control activities for the SKA Project.

Reporting to the Product Assurance Manager, the Product Assurance Engineer delivers hands‑on implementation of SKA quality assurance requirements for certain contracts within the SKA project and provides clear, regular updates to the project team. The role involves close engagement with contractors to confirm the adequacy of their processes and resources to execute the contracts, and to rigorously review outputs at each contract stage for compliance with requirements, standards and regulations. Working closely with Subject Matter Experts as required, the role is central to ensuring product quality and successful integration into the SKA Telescope system.

The Product Assurance required for SKAO will involve several challenges which are unique to research infrastructures. The successful candidate will rise to these challenges and overcome them to help deliver a world leading science facility. This will require good problem‑solving skills, flexibility and adaptability to the ways of working in a research environment in order to come up with innovative theoretical ideas to problems and translating them to practical solutions for implementation.

The Product Assurance Engineer will be based at the SKAO headquarters in the UK but will also work in the field at contractors sites, the SKAO test facilities and the Telescope construction sites. Therefore, regular international travel to these sites will be required. Some duties may require occasional extended stays of up to 4 weeks in host countries, subject to visa requirements.

The role is a two year fixed‑term andwill be based in the SKAO Global Headquarters located at Jodrell Bank in the UK.

Job Title: Senior Consultant – Product Assurance (Naval Architecture) at TieTalent

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

• You will provide independent review of product design and assurance of compliance with Life Cycle Management, Engineering and product safety policies
• Provide independent judgement regarding the safety of the design of Submarines’ products in the context of meeting business, contract, programme, regulatory and statutory requirements
• The provision of independent judgement regarding the establishment, maintenance and robustness of all Engineering & Product Integrity Assurance processes being executed by those responsible managers delegated by the EA
• You will establish the assurance requirements for programmes/projects and upholding these through the product lifecycle assuring that product integrity requirements are satisfied
• You will provide independent assurance of the certification & qualification of products as required through the product’s lifecycle, aligned with the requirements of the Submarines Product Assurance Framework
• The provision of independent assurance that Design Reviews and Technical Bid Reviews are conducted to provide independent appraisal
• And you will provide independent assurance that work is completed in accordance with all mandated Engineering policies and processes

• Experience of submarine Naval Architecture; Structures; Containment; Outfit; Anchoring, Mooring, Berthing, Towing, Salvage and Docking; and Submarine Escape, Rescue, Abandonment & Survival (SMERAS)
• A depth of understanding of how Submarine engineering is organised and structured and how different engineering disciplines are integrated
• Good understanding of submarine customer(s) and their requirements plus an awareness of industry approaches and standards
• Awareness or Exposure to System Design Principles
• Stakeholder management experience
• Sound technical hands-on engineering knowledge

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Engineering Product Assurance Department (EPAD). The role is one of six senior consultants with a various specialist skillsets supported by an Engineering manager and a team of six Principal Engineers (of a solid submarine industry and ex submariner backgrounds). Sitting outside of the programmes engineering management, EPAD provides an independent risk-based assessment on the effectiveness of governance, engineering management, and internal controls across Level 1 & 2 assurance activities. The Level 3 output also provides an independent view to the Engineering Authority (EA) and senior programme stakeholders on product/design maturity and identifies areas where intervention or improvement may be required. When appropriate the Level 3 activity should also draw upon pan-functional mutual assurance in accordance with Independent Internal Assurance.

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 16th July 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

• Mid-Senior level

• Contract

• Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

• Technology, Information and Internet

Overview

Our client, an established aerospace & defence manufacturing firm in Weymouth, require an experienced Submarine Product Assurance Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team. The Product Assurance team support the successful delivery of Integrated Combat Systems projects, providing an independent challenge, bringing in expertise and helping identify major risks. This role would be especially suited to an (ex) Submariner Leading Hand who has experience with operations. Please note we can only consider sole UK Nationals (no dual nationalities)

Job Title: Submarine Product Assurance Engineer

Location: Weymouth – Hybrid (happy to discuss)

Role Type: Permanent

• Working with the development teams to ensure they identify and implement appropriate mitigation plans for emergent technical risks to the product
• Providing independent technical scrutiny and conducting assessments of the maturity of the design
• Working at the relevant stage within the engineering lifecycle to assure that these systems are designed, built, integrated and accepted into service
• Actively engage with multiple internal departments and the MoD in delivering Product Assurance against design intent for build and commissioning phases of submarine production
• Actively engage with the Build and Integration Team to understand the Combat System, platform build plan, the management of production defects, the critical path, etc
• Attend and observe Installation Inspections, Final Installation Inspections, Set-to-Work activities, and Combat System Design Integration Facility, Platform Combat system Release and Test Readiness Reviews, as appropriate

• Good understanding of submarine systems, design and operation, including transverse aspects, safety and certification
• Thorough knowledge of the engineering lifecycle, work independently and be able to apply good practices to your work
• An underpinning knowledge and understanding of the engineering activities associated with product development and realisation
• Capable of achieving the appropriate Professional Institution membership level, supported by an honour’s degree or equivalent experience in an appropriate discipline
• Demonstrable knowledge of submarine design, commissioning, operation, safety/regulation and safety case architecture
• Specialist knowledge of Safety or Security in relation to complex systems

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Submarine Product Assurance Engineer to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Design and Engineering

• Defense and Space Manufacturing

Spire Global is seeking a Product Assurance Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of our space systems in Glasgow. The role involves supporting Product Assurance processes, contributing to requirements definition, and participating in project reviews.

Ideal candidates will have experience in aerospace or high-reliability environments, strong communication skills, and a detail-oriented approach.

This position supports a hybrid work model, requiring at least three days in the office.