Senior Programme Quality Engineer

Overview

In this role you act as the voice of quality across vehicle programmes, shaping quality ownership from concept to handover. You will work within the vehicle programme team to influence design, styling and manufacturing decisions, driving early quality governance and continuous improvement. You engage across levels to resolve issues, lead quality reporting and risk assessment, and partner with cross-functional teams to prevent repeat defects. This is a mission-driven position at a world‑class automotive innovator, offering impact across programmes and stages.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holiday
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance benefit
• Sabbatical option after two years’ service

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of quality gateway deliverables for the allocated programme
• Govern quality control and develop the project quality control plan
• Ensure quality-related costs have a Value To Complete budget line
• Lead Quality Concern Avoidance (QCA) to prevent repeat issues
• Prioritise issues to inform programme launch decisions
• Define quality targets per customer product audit and FPV
• Support Designed for Quality (DFQ) direction in design/styling meetings
• Support gap/flush and dimensional variation analysis reviews
• Create, issue, and track programme quality reporting against MDProcess deliverables
• Lead the quality risk assessment across the programme
• Support technical problem allocations and risk-filter prioritisation
• Assist problem-solving and escalate priority concerns through faults management processes

Key requirements

• Experience of low volume, high value automotive products
• Understanding of customer quality expectations
• Experience of low volume launch activities and readiness reviews
• Engineering design reviews and manufacturing process reviews
• Faults management control and KPI delivery
• Budget planning and review meetings
• Experience with business and process audits
• Understanding of new product release and change management process

• Strong collaboration and teamwork
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to persuade, guide and lead with assertion
• 8D or PPS (Practical Problem Solving)
• Methodical, analytical problem-solving
• Quality target setting experience

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