Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova’s Power Conversion & Storage business delivers advanced electrification systems that support the critical power and energy requirements of high-performance applications worldwide. Working with leading organisations across the energy, defence, maritime, and industrial sectors, we help accelerate the transition to a more efficient, lower-carbon future. Our solutions address significant requirements in power stability, energy storage, grid resilience, and renewable energy integration.

Our Quality Engineering team is a vital link between design, manufacturing, and customer delivery. We drive measurable business improvement through a proactive, prevention-focused approach. Moving beyond reactive inspection, we utilise data-driven methodologies to build quality capability, manage process risks, and ensure that our production lines consistently deliver the highest standards of safety, reliability, and performance.

Job Description

As the Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be the driver of quality excellence. Quality Engineering converts manufacturing issues into evidence-led corrective action, recurrence prevention, and measurable process improvement. You will own all quality engineering activities across your assigned production areas, taking full responsibility for quality investigations and continual improvement by preventing recurrence rather than merely inspecting the product. By translating complex quality data into actionable improvement priorities, you will directly shape our production outcomes and provide the executive-level reporting necessary to drive our quality strategy forward.

What You Will Do

As the Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be the driver of quality excellence. Quality Engineering converts manufacturing issues into evidence-led corrective action, recurrence prevention, and measurable process improvement. You will own all quality engineering activities across your assigned production areas, taking full responsibility for quality investigations and continual improvement by preventing recurrence rather than merely inspecting the product. By translating complex quality data into actionable improvement priorities, you will directly shape our production outcomes and provide the executive-level reporting necessary to drive our quality strategy forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Performance Improvement: Convert defects and investigations into evidence-led corrective actions, preventive actions, effectiveness reviews, lessons learned, and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) reduction. Use Pareto, trend analysis, and COPQ data to prioritise actions, improve process capability, and drive right-first-time performance.
• Compliance & Reporting: Partner with Operations, Engineering, Supplier Quality, and Customer Quality teams to uphold quality standards, support audit finding closure, and ensure ongoing QMS compliance. Maintain accurate quality records within our systems, escalating aged or high-risk issues as necessary
• NCR & RCA Management: Oversee the full lifecycle of Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), from initial containment through to definitive closure. Facilitate structured Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations, ensuring the governance of corrective actions, defining preventive measures with accountable owners, and verifying implementation effectiveness.
• Process Risk & Control: Develop detailed control plans and provide critical inputs for PFMEA to ensure comprehensive process risk management. Support APQP, PPAP, and manufacturing change governance.
• Systemic Learning: Drive defect prevention by identifying repeat defects and systemic causes, embedding lessons learned back into standard work and visual management systems.
  
  

Candidate Requirements

• Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality management, or a related technical field.
• Technical Expertise: Proven ability to apply core quality tools—specifically PFMEA, Control Plans, and Statistical Process Control (SPC)—to reduce process variation. Practical experience conducting Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) and performing Process Capability (Cp/Cpk) studies to validate manufacturing stability.
• Industry Experience: Prior experience in a Quality Engineering role within a regulated manufacturing or engineering environment. Solid working knowledge of ISO 9001 (or AS9100) and experience maintaining compliance through internal audits.
• Technical Literacy: Ability to interpret technical drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), and engineering specifications to ensure product conformance with a strong understanding of quality methodologies and tools such as Lean, Six Sigma, FMEA.
• Communication: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for communicating technical findings to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• You must hold a UK passport for Security Clearance (SC) to be considered for this role. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
  
  

Desirable

• Certifications: ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or Six Sigma Green Belt.
• APQP & PPAP: Advanced Product Quality Planning and Production Part Approval Process for managing complex manufacturing knowledge.
• Knowledge of industry standards relevant to energy or power generation such as Lloyd’s, BV, ATEX or EX.
• Knowledge of NATO standards such as AQAP 2105, 2110, etc.
  
  

What We Offer

At GE Vernova, we invest in your long-term success and wellbeing through a comprehensive, flexible benefits package designed to support what matters most to you.

Our Total Reward offering includes competitive compensation, a performance-related bonus, flexible pension with a 10 % employers’ contribution, employer-funded private health insurance, income protection, and life assurance. We support your time to recharge with 26 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.

Our 'Flex Choice' programme, you can take advantage of corporate benefits such as buying and selling holiday, a cycle-to-work scheme, financial planning, critical illness insurance, personal accident cover, dental cover, option to add family to a private health scheme, and travel insurance.

Why Join Us?

Join our team to lead real problem-solving in a challenging manufacturing environment, reduce repeat defects, influence process design, build digital quality capability, and create measurable business improvement.

We also provide a platform for continuous career growth through mentorship, open dialogue, and support for professional qualifications, helping you map a career path that evolves with your ambitions.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No