Quality Engineer in Rochdale

Company Overview

When you join TT, you join our global community of visionaries, creators, and achievers dedicated to engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions enabling a safer, healthier and more sustainable world. We are committed to having a positive impact on the world through a culture built around safety, transparency, collaboration, and positive relationships. Our teams are fuelled by performance and expertise, leading the charge in innovation, efficiency and delivering world-class customer service.

Role Overview and Responsibilities

The Quality Engineer is a dynamic change agent and technical investigator operating within our AS9100 and AS9110 environments. This role is designed for a highly collaborative, digitally savvy professional who connects data, people and technology to drive operational excellence. The primary focus of this role is to manage concurrent cross-functional problem-solving initiatives, build trust-based relationships across departments to transform our operational culture, lead the transition from manual to automated digital workflows and own the First Article Inspection lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Problem Solving & Investigations: Lead multiple concurrent quality investigations across departments, apply structured root cause methodologies (8D, 5WHY, Ishikawa), coordinate rapid containment of quality issues.
• Cultural & Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong cross-functional relationships, promote a proactive, data-led quality culture, coach teams away from reactive ‘firefighting’.
• Digital & Process Improvement: Transition manual processes into automated/digital workflows, use data analytics to enable real-time monitoring and predictive quality.
• First Article Inspections (FAIRs): Own and validate FAIRs in line with AS9102 standards.
• Counterfeit Prevention: Knowledge of counterfeit parts prevention, detection and reporting processes, including supply chain risk management, component traceability, certification review and escalation of suspected counterfeit materials IAW AS5553.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Conduct goods-in, in-process and final inspections.
• Support supplier/source inspections.
• Drive risk mitigation using APQP, FMEA and Control Plans.
• Apply Lean Six Sigma tools to reduce waste, variation and cost of poor quality.

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes

Core Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of aerospace quality standards (AS9100/9110/9102).
• Skilled in quality tools (APQP, FMEA, MSA, SPC).
• Experience in digital transformation (ERP, PowerBi, FileMaker).
• Proficient in metrology, GD&T, technical drawing and specification interpretation.
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Behavioural & Mindset Traits:

• Collaborative and influential communicator.
• Analytical and data-driven thinker.
• Pragmatic problem solver balancing quality and operational needs.
• Resilient under pressure.

Skills and Experience:

• Degree in Engineering, Quality or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrable experience operating within aerospace manufacturing environments certified AS9100/9100, applying quality management system requirements to support product conformity and continuous improvement.
• Proven experience leading investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.

Certification:

• Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt).
• IPC Standards knowledge (IPC-A-610 / WHMA-A-620).
• Training in core quality tools (APQP, FMEA, MSA, SPC).

What We Offer You:

• Competitive Salary.
• Enhanced pension contributions.
• Healthcare cashback plan.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Site incentive plan.
• Financial wellbeing benefit.
• Discounted online and high street shopping and lifestyle vouchers.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Discounted RAC membership.
• Discounted Gym membership.
• 5 weeks (in hours) annual leave plus bank holidays.
• A supportive and friendly working environment with a focus on wellbeing and sustainability.

Our Recruitment Process:

Formal Interviews will be held on site and include a tour of the facility. Please be aware that many roles at TT Electronics are subject to both security and export control restrictions which means that limitations relating to nationality may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). TT Electronics is unable to sponsor work visas for this role. We hold Health and Safety in the highest regard at TT, with the Wellbeing of our employees our top priority. Any successful candidate will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening.

We want the very best people in our TT family across the globe – so we welcome applications from everyone, to celebrate a diverse mix of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and you can rest assured that TT Electronics takes positive steps to ensure we are an inclusive business, that will welcome and support you, from your initial application to wherever your career takes you! Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to your application, in order that we can accommodate and support you in the process. You can do this by emailing TTRecruitment@ttelectronics.com. If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.