L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.
Job Title – Quality Engineer
Job Location – Brighton
Job ID – 11542
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.
L3Harris in Brighton are part of Release Systems and the Airborne Combat Systems sector operating in the Aerospace domain. We specialise in high performance electro-mechanical systems and pneumatic technology for airborne weapon carriage release.
A few of our employee benefits are:
Half day finish on a Friday 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days Private medical insurance with optional family cover Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x) Group income protection Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
What the role will involve
The responsibilities of your role will include the following:
To ensure compliance to specified quality requirements and assist in reducing cost. Actively identifying corrective actions, providing support with continual improvements Carry out process and product-based quality audits and verifying any corrective actions that need to be taken. Demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of Continual Improvement, internal and external audit procedures, and be able to produce report data for management system review Investigation around customer returns and defect investigations Generating monthly quality reports Support all Program Teams meetings by representing the L3Harris QA Team to ensure product development programmes plan for right first time working by using prevention tools
What you’ll bring
The role of Quality Engineer requires the following experience and skills:
To be fully conversant with the current revision of ISO9001 and AS9100. Previous Quality Assurance experience, ideally including aerospace experience and ideally educated to degree level or equivalent in an Engineering or Science related subject Experience with APQP, PPAP, PFMEA and Control Plans A robust temperament, able to liaise at all levels, be a role model and promote right first time behaviours
Important to know
Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.
As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.
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