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Quality Assurance Specialist
Section
Quality
Department
Quality Assurance
Role Requirements
- Manage and control the Quality Management System aligned to the requirements of AS9100, AS9110 and AS9120 requirements.
- Manage and control the Quality Assurance function and managing the Quality / Business systems in compliance with FAA/GACA regulations.
- Supporting aerospace system requirements.
- Lead team efforts to establish and monitor customer/supplier relations, support strategic planning and deployment initiatives, and help develop measurement systems to determine organisational improvement.
- Carrying out the role of lead auditor for the organisation’s 1st and 2nd party audits.
Qualification
- Have at least 2 years’ experience managing a quality department preferably in the aerospace industry.
- Hold Lead Auditor certification in either of the AS9100D, AS9110C, or AS9001:2015 standards.
- Be fully conversant in the following Microsoft applications. i.e. Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint.
- Fluent in both Arabic and English speaking and writing.
- Highly effective Interpersonal skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- Self-organised.
- Ability to coordinate and integrate activities across the organisation.
- Project Management skills.
- Ability to establish and maintain good customer relationships.
- Experience in Lean management.
- Performance Management experience.
- Internal and external customer facing experience.
Experience and Competencies
- Excellent accounting skills
- Ability to develop budgeting and forecasting models and variables to support reliable and achievable financial goals
- Strong computer skills
- Strong written and communication skills
- Great understanding of policies, procedures and work methods
- Proficiency in Arabic and English languages
Responsibilities & Duties
- Validating quality processes by establishing service specifications and quality attributes; measuring service provision; documenting evidence; determining operational and performance qualification; writing and updating quality assurance procedures.
- Building customer relationships and satisfaction through frequent proactive visits and correspondence and reacting promptly to any customer complaint.
- Proactively working with customer and employees to anticipate and address problems and issues before they occur.
- Achieving quality assurance operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying and resolving problems; completing audits; determining system improvements; implementing change.
- Assisting the Head of Quality Assurance to meet quality departmental financial objectives by estimating requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Developing quality assurance plans to improve repeatability, reducing Cost of Non-Conformance by conducting risk assessments; identifying critical control points and preventive measures; establishing standards, monitoring procedures, implementing corrective actions driven through A3, 8D and QOS tools, and verification procedures to sustain improvements.
- Maintaining and improving product quality by leveraging Continual Improvement Framework and Problem solving.
- Completing service, company, system, compliance, and surveillance audits; investigating customer complaints using RCA methodology; collaborating with other members of management to develop new service procedures and training methods.
- Preparing quality documentation and reports by collecting, analysing and summarising information and trends including failed processes, stability studies, warranty complaints, corrective actions, and re-validations.
- Updating job knowledge by studying trends in and developments in quality management; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organisations.
- Enhancing department and organisation reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.