Senior Programme Quality Engineer
Reporting to the ‘Programme Quality Manager’, the role of ‘Senior Programme Quality Engineer’ is to represent the "voice of quality" within vehicle programmes and to support delivery of Quality owned activities. The ‘Senior Programme Quality Engineer’ engages at the very front end of the conceptual design process and plays an integral role within the vehicle programme team to influence the overall styling, technical, and manufacturing activities until the handover to series is complete.
The core functions of the role are
- Alongside the Programme Quality Manager and Faults Management Engineer, the ‘Senior Programme Quality Engineer’ is responsible for managing all programme quality activities across the respective vehicle programmes.
- Leading the delivery of all internal customer quality KPI’s (concern reporting, customer product audit, BIW measurement, etc.)
- Must be able to work pragmatically in a team to find ways forward, while maintaining a clear focus on quality.
- Continuous improvement of known quality issues through the new model development process.
This is a challenging area of the business that operates at all levels of management from shop floor to executive director, across multiple projects at any given time and works cross functionally to resolve issues from concept through to launch. This role requires someone with a high level of interpersonal and communication skills that can persuade, guide and lead with assertion, while building important relationships at all levels both internally and externally across the business.
