The posting
Job description
As a Supplier Quality Engineer at Cambridge Aerospace, you’ll work directly with our suppliers to build a strong, reliable, and high-performing supply chain. From onboarding and developing new suppliers to improving existing supplier performance, you’ll ensure that supplier systems, processes, and products consistently meet our quality requirements.
Your work will directly contribute to the delivery of high-quality, compliant products to our customers. You’ll be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and taking a hands-on approach to supplier development and quality within regulated manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Procurement, Engineering and Manufacturing to build a robust and scalable supply chain.
- Onboard, develop and manage suppliers, ensuring quality and compliance requirements are met.
- Drive improvements in supplier quality, cost and delivery performance.
- Conduct supplier audits and ensure findings and corrective actions are effectively resolved.
- Lead the resolution of supplier quality issues, including root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
- Monitor supplier performance, supporting recovery plans and escalation where required.
- Work with suppliers on DFMA to improve manufacturability and efficient assembly.
- Support supplier selection and NPI, assessing capability, compliance and supply risk.
- Coordinate First Article Inspections (FAIs) and independently deliver supplier quality projects.
Additional Information
This role will involve regular travel to supplier sites across the UK, so you’ll need to be comfortable travelling as part of your working week.
Requirements
- Experience in Supplier Quality, Supplier Development or a similar engineering quality role.
- Good understanding of Quality Management Systems and standards, such as ISO 9001, AS9100 or EASA Part 21.
- confidence working with engineering drawings, specifications and technical standards and engineering fundamentals.
- Familiarity with quality tools such as APQP, PPAP, SPC and FMEA.
- Experience investigating supplier quality issues, including root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Comfortable working with manufacturing and ERP processes, including BOMs, routings and engineering changes.
Preferred Qualifications / Experience
- Experience across multiple supplier commodity groups, such as composite structures, metallic and machined parts, or power systems
- Understanding of lean manufacturing principles
- Certified Lead Auditor (ISO standards)
- Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt
- Membership of a recognised professional body (e.g. CQI)
What We Offer
Competitive compensation and stock options Private Medical & Dental Cycle to work scheme Lunchtime catering on site
About Us
The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence. We’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery. We have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest growing defence technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission.
If you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.



