Supply Chain Quality Specialist

Accountabilities
As a Supply Chain & Quality Specialist (SCQS) you will report directly to the Head of New Product Introduction Systems & Equipment UK and your key accountabilities will be:

- Developing and deploying APQP across Major Modifications to ensure industrial maturity
- Coaching and upskilling the Supply Chain Quality Managers community
- Supplier Continuous Improvement & Development
- Delivery & Quality Supplier Operation Support

Main activities
The successful candidate will need to be autonomous in supporting the UK Supply Chain Systems & Equipments organization to continuously improve in supply chain management ways of working and developing supplier capability and maturity. This will be achieved by pro-actively defining and rolling out the below initiatives:

> APQP Leader for New Product Introduction / Major Modifications / Transfer of Work:
- APQP Leader covering Product change across Landing Gear Structures / Systems and Fuel System Equipment.
- Liaising with program quality to ensure robust APQP deployment throughout the E2E processes
- Influencing and Developing

> Quality Tools, Techniques & Methodologies:
- Supply Chain & Quality Manager (SCQM) Coaching - Leading and influencing development of SCQM's to obtain accepted level of maturity in Quality Tools, Techniques and Methodologies across POEL scope.
- Quality Standards & Assurance

> Supplier Development:
- Supporting the SCQM community to implement robust continuous improvement plans through Supplier Business Improvement Plan Methodologies
- Focal point for Supplier APQP Self assessments and linked projects in Supplier Business Improvement Plan Methodologies
- Facilitator for Quality Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for supplier development

> Operation Support:
- Supporting SCQM facing complex quality supply chain issues impacting directly Airbus industrial flow
- Standardising Quality Tool ways of working across Systems & Equipement scope
- Supporting Corporate Assessments designed to assess the industrial maturity of the suppliers like IPCA's, CCP's and Concession processes

Required Skills
- Autonomous and pro-active approach
- Willingness to get involved and drive change within the organisation
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Practical Knowledge of Supply Chain Quality tools, techniques and methodologies
- Understanding of Change Request Industrial Implementation
- Supply Chain & Quality Background

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.