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Company Overview

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Role Overview and Responsibilities

TT Electronics, Bedlington, is hiring a Supplier Quality Engineer to be responsible for all aspects of supplier quality for the Microelectronics Value Stream. 

 

 

As the Supplier Quality Engineer will support and develop our supplier quality performance across a critical microelectronics supply chain serving aerospace, defence and medical customers.

 

You'll be responsible for ensuring suppliers consistently meet stringent quality, reliability, compliance, and delivery requirements for high-reliability electronic assemblies.

 

Working closely with Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Quality teams, you'll drive supplier improvement activities, manage non-conformances, support supplier qualification, and ensure robust controls are maintained throughout the supply chain.

 

 

Key Responsibilities Include: 

Supplier Quality Management

• Acting as the primary quality interface between the business and external suppliers, manage and develop supplier quality relationships. 
• Monitor supplier performance using key metrics.
• Lead supplier improvement initiatives to achieve measurable outcomes. 
• Conduct supplier audits, assessments, and process reviews to ensure compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

• Support supplier approval, qualification, and ongoing surveillance.
• Ensure suppliers comply with applicable aerospace, defence and medical quality standards, customer-specific requirements, and internal procedures.
• Review supplier documentation including quality plans, inspection reports, certificates of conformity, material certifications, and test data.
• Support compliance with standards including AS9100 and IPC requirements.
• Ensure supplier processes support traceability, configuration control, and product integrity requirements.

Non-Conformance & Corrective Action

• Lead supplier-related non-conformance investigations.
• Drive structured root cause analysis and verify effectiveness.
• Manage supplier concessions, deviations, and containment activities where required.
• Support investigation into customer complaints and field quality issues linked to supplied materials or components.

New Product Introduction (NPI) & Engineering Support

• Support supplier involvement in new product introduction and manufacturing.
• Review supplier manufacturing capability, process controls, and inspection methods.
• Participate in design reviews, supplier technical reviews, and risk assessments.
• Provide quality input into component selection, sourcing decisions, and manufacturability reviews.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve supplier processes, reduce variation, and improve first-pass yield.
• Promote a preventative and continuous improvement culture.
• Implement quality tools.

 

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes

What We Look For: 

 

• Experience in a Supplier Quality Engineer, Quality Engineer, or similar role within a high-reliability manufacturing environment.
• Experience working with electronic components, microelectronics, semiconductor packaging, PCB assembly, or related technologies.
• A strong understanding of supplier quality management processes and corrective action.
• A proven record of results achieved with suppliers from a continuous improvement approach, ideally within electronic component / system manufacturing.
• Experience conducting supplier audits and process assessments.
• The ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and technical documentation.
• Knowledge of quality management systems and aerospace/defence requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Practical knowledge of ERP systems, ideally SAP.

 

The following would enhance your application but are not essential to apply: 

 

• Experience within aerospace, defence, space, medical, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with AS9100 and customer-specific requirements.
• Knowledge of IPC standards, soldering processes, assembly standards, inspection techniques, and reliability testing.
• Experience with electronic component supply chains and obsolescence management.
• Lead Auditor qualification or equivalent.

 

This is an onsite role, based at our Bedlington manufacturing facility, a flagship manufacturing site within the TT Power & TT Components Divisions, manufacturing electronics components, and microelectronic assemblies, within ISO class 6 & class 7 clean room environments. Future growth for the facility is supported with significant investment in product design & manufacturing capability on site.  

 

What We Offer You:

 

From this role you will have the opportunity to develop the experience needed to explore and progress to more senior leadership roles within TT Electronics Bedlington, or the wider group, if this is in your own career plan.

 

• 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

TT Electronics are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Solving Technology Challenges for a Sustainable World

 

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 [email protected]  

 

If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.  

 

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TT Electronics does not accept any unsolicited CVs from third parties. Any CVs submitted by a third party for this or any other position will not be subject to any recruitment fees if hired.