# Group Senior Quality Engineer – Aerospace

**Company**: Xtrac
**Location**: Thatcham
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace

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## Description

Xtrac, a leading designer and manufacturer of specialist transmissions, is seeking a Group Senior Quality Engineer – Aerospace. The successful candidate will own the group's aerospace quality and accreditation framework, ensuring no aerospace opportunity is lost and no existing certification is put at risk.

The role involves working alongside site Quality Managers to drive the certification and surveillance programme at sites doing aerospace work. Key responsibilities include:

- Commissioning and managing AS9100 Rev D and EN 9100:2018 gap assessments across sites

- Advising and facilitating the certification programme through to approval

- Producing a costed, resourced, and prioritised view of aerospace accreditation requirements

- Determining EASA/CAA/FAA Part 21 applicability and approval

- Supporting Engineering on aerospace functional safety requirements

- Supporting customer audits and supplier qualification submissions

- Building internal auditor competence at sites against aerospace standards

- Reporting aerospace accreditation gaps and contract-readiness status monthly

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience implementing, maintaining or being assessed against AS9100 Rev D or EN 9100:2018 in a global aerospace supply chain. They will also hold an auditor qualification against AS9100 / EN 9100 (AS9101 methodology) and have experience conducting structured gap analysis against a standard.

In return, Xtrac offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work with a dynamic team in a growing organisation.

## Skills

### Required
- AS9100 Rev D
- EN 9100:2018
- Aerospace quality and accreditation
- Gap analysis
- Certification programme management
- EASA/CAA/FAA Part 21
- Functional safety requirements

### Nice to have
- EASA Part 21G or 21J approval experience
- AS9115 or wider software quality assurance in an aerospace context
- DO-178C awareness
- Special process control experience in a manufacturing environment
- Formal root cause and problem-solving qualification such as Six Sigma

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