About this job

General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 650 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles – a highly-protected and mobile 4×4 platform with high-deployment availability.

Responsibilities

GDUK Land Systems is currently executing the AJAX Programme. The position is for a Senior Programme Quality Engineer to manage the concessions, processes and documentation to support this activity at the GDUK Merthyr facility. The role will require close liaison and co-operation with the Engineering and Manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

• Management of efficient and effective Concessions system to ensure effective capture and sentencing – to be the programme lead for driving information capture and close-out of concessions back into the vehicle designs.
• Through life management of Concessions.
• Become a point of knowledge on all aspects of Concession management.
• Support the development of end-to-end management support tools, such as information flows, tracking spreadsheets, metrics, action logs and project milestones.
• Manage the review, design, development and implementation of effective and efficient Concession processes.
• Support the closure of Concessions via the generation of embodiment plan of corrective actions into the wider DLODs (manufacturing, supply chain, spares / ILS, training etc).
• Identification and implementation of lessons identified in order to continuously refine and improve the concession process and enhance capability development.
• Generate daily, weekly and monthly Concession metrics.
• Support the analysis of Concessions to establish trends.
• Supporting the tailoring of the company Processes to suit the programme and contractual needs.
• Liaison and work with managers and peers in other support functions.
• Support/advice to Production Managers, Engineering and other business areas as required.
• Attendance at selected key reviews in accordance with agreed plans
• Review of key concessions documents.
• Customer liaison and representing the department, the presentation of data, on site and at customer sites
• Promote quality awareness within programmes.
• Prepare weekly and monthly production quality metrics and reports, for internal and external purposes.

Profile

• Experience of working in a manufacturing environment
• Experience/knowledge of managing concessions with MoD
• Good knowledge of ISO9001
• Excellent communication skills including written, verbal and presentation
• Must be flexible in terms of working hours, willing to travel within and outside the UK
• ONC/HNC in an Engineering/Quality Discipline with Quality Engineering Experience
• Internal Auditor Qualified