Advanced Quality Engineer

Overview

As an Advanced Quality Engineer, you will lead APQP activities for new product introductions and manage BEON/PPAP release status to ensure on-time launches. You will own project quality across phases and serve as the main contact for customer quality concerns, driving continuous improvement. The role supports D/PFMEA, root cause analysis, and lessons learned to raise supplier quality and launch confidence. Based in Buckingham, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver world-class quality in a technology-driven automotive environment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate APQP activities across new product introductions and oversee BEON/PPAP release status for customer-released products
• Control and track APQP documents through PPAP approval for new program launches to meet submission dates
• Execute PPAP submissions and approvals for customer and internal engineering changes
• Create monthly PPAP/BEON status reports for management and escalate delays
• Own project quality across project phases and act as main contact for customer quality concerns
• Support D/PFMEA and DFM reviews, root cause analysis, and lesson-learned workshops to drive continuous improvement

Key requirements

• Significant experience in medium-volume manufacturing, ideally automotive, with strong APQP and PPAP/BEON exposure
• Demonstrable problem-solving capability including 8D, PPS, and advanced root cause analysis
• Knowledge of Automotive quality expectations, including IMDS understanding
• Experience dealing with customers and suppliers with strong communication and stakeholder management
• IAFT 16949 auditing experience essential (VDA experience beneficial)

• problem-solving
• cross-functional collaboration
• communication
• APQP
• PPAP/BEON
• D/PFMEA

…