Quality Assurance Engineer

Salary up to £32,000 DOE
Merthyr Tydfil South Wales
Onsite role
Starting October 2026

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for ensuring that products and processes meet defined quality standards and customer requirements across the production lifecycle. Working closely with Production, Engineering, and Operations teams, the role drives quality compliance, supports continuous improvement, and ensures robust quality systems are implemented and maintained to support safe, efficient, and right-first-time delivery.

Your responsibilities in this role include:

• Ensure compliance with all quality standards, procedures, and regulatory requirements across production operations
• Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System (QMS)
• Conduct internal audits and support external audits, ensuring readiness and compliance at all times
• Investigate non-conformances, identify root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
• Work closely with Production teams to ensure adherence to quality processes and standards on the shopfloor
• Collaborate with Engineering to ensure effective transition of designs into production, with quality built into processes
• Support inspection and testing activities, ensuring products meet required specifications and customer expectations
• Analyse quality data and trends to identify areas for improvement and support decision
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce defects, rework, and waste
• Ensure all quality documentation is accurate, controlled, and up to date
• Support supplier quality activities where required, including evaluation and performance monitoring
• Promote a strong quality culture across the site, ensuring accountability and awareness at all levels

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Strong understanding of quality assurance principles and quality management systems (e.g. ISO 9001)
• Understanding of engineering drawings, specifications, and technical documentation
• Working knowledge of Health & Safety and regulatory compliance requirements

Technical skills/qualifications:

• Strong understanding of quality assurance principles and quality management systems (e.g. ISO 9001)
• Experience with root cause analysis tools (e.g. 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone/Ishikawa)
• Knowledge of inspection and testing methods within a manufacturing environment
• Ability to analyse and interpret quality and production data
• Familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma)
• Understanding of engineering drawings, specifications, and technical documentation
• Working knowledge of Health & Safety and regulatory compliance requirements

Additional local needs:

• Onsite role
• Successful candidate will need to complete BPSS checks

The benefits for this role are:

• Opportunity to develop into senior Quality Engineering or Quality Management roles
• Exposure to cross-functional operations, including Production, Engineering, and Supply Chain
• Involvement in continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives
• Potential progression into broader operational or technical leadership role

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.