Supplier Quality Engineer

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a Supplier Quality Engineer to join our Quality & Assurance team where you’ll play a key part in ensuring our global supply chain consistently meets the highest aerospace standards.

The position is based at our Bishops Cleeve site in Gloucestershire with regular travel required to suppliers located in the UK, EU, and US.

Ontic is a more than just a business, we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Role:

As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you’ll play a key role in ensuring suppliers meet aerospace quality, regulatory, and customer requirements. You’ll conduct supplier audits, support onboarding and qualification activities, perform source inspections, and drive improvements in supplier performance and compliance.

Working closely with suppliers and internal stakeholders, you’ll lead the resolution of supplier quality issues through effective containment, root cause analysis, and corrective actions, ensuring product conformity prior to shipment.

This is a highly visible, field-based role with up to 80% travel to supplier sites, where you’ll help strengthen supplier capability, improve processes, and promote a culture of continuous improvement across the supply chain.

About you:

At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture.

To be successful in this role you'll need to you’ll bring strong experience within supplier quality, compliance, or manufacturing in a regulated industry such as aerospace. You’ll have a deep understanding of relevant standards such as AS9100 and hands-on experience conducting supplier audits and managing quality issues through to resolution.

You’ll be confident working independently in a field-based role, building strong relationships with suppliers while also influencing and collaborating with internal teams. Strong problem-solving skills, including the use of recognised root cause analysis methodologies, are essential, along with the ability to communicate clearly and produce detailed, high-quality reports.

A proactive and resilient mindset is key, as is the flexibility to travel extensively, including internationally. A relevant engineering qualification and Lead Auditor certification would be highly advantageous.

Benefits

At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.

Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Our values

Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!