Company Overview

TISICS is a small management-owned business with material and processing technology that is of potential future benefit primarily to the Space and Aerospace sectors. The company designs and manufactures net shape metal and continuous silicon carbide fibre reinforced composite components compromising titanium and aluminium alloys. Our advanced materials offer significant advantages both to the Aerospace sector in reducing the weight of platforms for environmental benefit and to the Space sector with rapid growth in communications, climate and planetary exploration applications. In order to address these exciting market developments and increased customer interest in our technology, we are growing and are looking for motivated and inspiring people to join the team.

We handle a variety of different material types.

• Fibre (Silicon Carbide, Alumina Ceramic, Carbon Coating, and Tungsten Core, plus variety of chemical and gasses involved in the manufacturing process)
• Composites with the fibre and a variety of matrix materials (Titanium, Aluminium) and tooling, which is primarily steel based.

Product Assurance / Quality Assurance (PA/QA) Manager - Aerospace/Space

We are looking for an experienced PA/QA Manager with a proven track record of Quality leadership in an engineering, production and development environment. The role requires strong customer relationship skills and a good understanding of the Aerospace sector, as the role will include working with new customers within that market. The projects will be developing and qualifying critical structural components for implementation in future aircraft platforms, based on TISICS advanced metal matrix composite and fibre technologies. We use novel manufacturing methods using Diffusion bonding and also including dissimilar material joining.

The PA/QA Manager will be responsible for ensuring the performance of projects in accordance with the relevant standards, including leading quality-related matters during all phases of projects and ensuring that the tasks and commitments defined in the PA/QA plans are correctly performed. The role will require strong interaction with the project engineering and production/workshop teams.

The PA/QA Manager will also lead the development of the company quality system to reach AS9100 accreditation, implement process improvements and promote a quality culture across the organisation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Managing product/quality assurance related matters during all project phases (from development to production)
• Implementing and performing the project PA/QA plans
• Managing the integration of activities defined in the PA/QA plan (EEE, materials, mechanical parts and process, dependability etc.)
• Ensuring the implementation of documentation management and recording, reviewing document and engineering drawings and understanding of metrology practices.
• Managing the non-conformances/deviations/alerts/critical items control process
• Acting as a key point of contact for all quality-related activities of customers and external suppliers
• Supporting the development and follow-up of the supply chain to meet project requirements
• Leading on manufacturing process surveillance, providing support for incoming inspection activities and client on-site reviews
• Supporting Parts, Materials and Processes (PMP) activities
• Participating to design/engineering/MAIT/manufacturing reviews
• Participating to customer/supplier reviews
• Managing project internal/external audits
• Preparation of the client End Item Data Packs (EIDPs)
• Leading the development, maintenance and improvement of the quality system to reach AS9100 accreditation and promotion of a quality culture throughout the organisation

Qualifications and Skills

• More than 5 years industrial experience in relevant environment with a good understanding of Aerospace or Space quality standards
• Configuration and data management control
• Standards practical knowledge (e.g. ECSS, ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO14001)
• Demonstrated leadership skills and change management
• Experience of embedding a Quality culture within an engineering organisation

What we can offer:

• Competitive salary: negotiable, depending on specific experience and qualifications relevant to the role.
• Retirement Plan: Pension scheme to help secure your future.
• 20 days holiday + bank holidays

Want to hear more about what it’s like to work at TISICS? Reach out to our team on talent@tisics.co.uk

The candidate shall be eligible to work in the UK and hold a Skilled Workers visa, if required. For all successful candidates, TISICS will undertake background security checks. As part of this, we will need to confirm your identity, employment history and address history to cover the past five years as well as your nationality, immigration status and criminal record.

TISICS does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where terms of business have not been signed and will not consider or agree to payment of any recruiter fee under these circumstances. In the event that speculative CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, we reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question.

For further information about this position please Contact us and we will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible.