Job Description

Permanent, full-time | Hampshire | £45,000–£52,000 depending on experience

The Company

Volantes Technical Recruitment is recruiting on behalf of an established UK aerospace business that designs, manufactures and maintains aircraft components for operators worldwide.

The business holds Design Organisation Approval (Part 21J), Production Organisation Approval (Part 21G) and Maintenance Organisation Approval (Part 145), alongside BS EN AS9100 certification. Few organisations of its size hold all four, so this role offers rare breadth of regulatory exposure in one job

The role

Reporting to the Safety & Compliance Manager, you will keep the management system current and compliant across all approvals. You will run the internal and supplier audit programme, and make sure the business has competent, authorised people and the documentation it needs to operate.

This is a hands-on role with real scope to shape the system. Current projects include building the management system for a new part of the business and developing the supplier approval and monitoring process.

Key responsibilities

Compliance and management system

• Maintain management system manuals, procedures and forms so they stay compliant and an accurate description of the organisation
• Maintain the design and production linkages: prepare DOA–POA arrangements and obtain and manage Statements of Approved Design Data
• Track and carry out personnel competency assessments, prepare authorisations, issue stamps and keep skills matrices current
• Support the deployment of Safety Management and Information Security Management Systems

Audit programme

• Schedule and run the internal and supplier oversight audit programme to meet regulatory and standards requirements
• Prepare, perform and document your own audits, and facilitate audits by regulators, customers and other external parties
• Issue findings and track them to closure
• Coach colleagues in auditing, root cause analysis and corrective action

Suppliers

• Lead supplier evaluation, approval and monitoring, setting the level of oversight from supplier performance and risk
• Flow down quality and regulatory requirements to suppliers
• Work with selected suppliers to help them improve

Team

• Deputise for the Product Quality Engineer or the Safety & Compliance Manager when required
• Coach the Quality Technician in your areas of responsibility

What you will need

• Lead Auditor qualification or equivalent experience
• Proven experience of internal and supplier audits to BS EN AS9100
• Audit experience in at least one of UK Part 21J, UK Part 21G or UK/EASA Part 145, with a willingness to develop in the others (training provided)
• Strong root cause analysis and corrective action skills
• Confident user of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
• The right to work in the UK

Desirable

• Audit experience in two or all three of Part 21J, Part 21G and Part 145
• Supplier approval and management system development experience
• Familiarity with SharePoint, Power Automate and Power BI
• ISO 14001 internal audit experience

Salary and benefits

• £45,000–£52,000 depending on experience
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
• Employee health care insurance
• Death in service benefit
• Training provided to extend your audit scope across further approvals

How to apply

Send your CV to Billy McDougall at Volantes Technical Recruitment: billy@volantesrecruitment.com, or call +44 141 264 2353 for a confidential conversation about the role.