Quality Assurance Engineer

Posting Date: 6 May 2025

City: Roma

Location:

Roma, IT, 144

Contract Type: Permanent

Division: Sustainability and Business Innovation

Level of experience:

RINA is currently recruiting for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join its office in Roma within the Sustainability and Business Innovation Division.

Mission

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to support product assurance activities for An important program in the Aerospace/Defense sector. The role involves ensuring compliance with quality management systems, verifying process adherence, and supporting configuration management and documentation validation within a high-tech defense environment.

Key Accountabilities

Ensure proper implementation of the Quality Plan, supporting the team in achieving program and process compliance objectives.
Verify adherence to quality processes, ensuring correct application throughout all activities.
Support product configuration management, including PLM context definition and structure setup.
Assist in reviewing and approving specifications and definition documentation, including technical data packages (drawings, part lists, electrical schematics, and interconnection diagrams).
Contribute to weekly and monthly project progress reports through presentations and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Participate in Safety & Security panels, Design Reviews, and Gate Reviews, monitoring action items and supplier compliance with MBDA guidelines.

Education

Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering or Engineering General

Qualifications

Proven experience in Quality Assurance within aerospace, defense, or high-tech industries.
Knowledge of ISO 9001, EN9100, and quality control methodologies.
Experience in configuration management and PLM tools (e.g., MATRIX).
Understanding of system and subsystem integration & validation, including hardware functional testing and environmental testing (MIL-STD 810).
Familiarity with industrialization and production processes, including non-conformance analysis and corrective action planning.
Fluent in English (spoken and written), with availability for travel within Italy and internationally.

Competencies

ADDRESS THE WAY - Have a big picture of different situations and reinterpret it in a perspective way
BUILD NETWORK - Forge trust relationships, across departments, and outside the organization
CLIENT INTIMACY - Embrace internal and external client needs, expectations, and requirements to ensure maximum satisfaction
EARN TRUST - Take everyone's opinion into account and remain open to diversity
MAKE EFFECTIVE DECISIONS - Structure activities according to priorities, actions, resources and constraint
MANAGE EMOTIONS - Recognise one's and other's emotions and express and regulate one's reactions
PIONEER CHANGE - Actively embrace change and benefit from the new circumstances
PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Promote commitment by keeping promises as a Role Model
THINK FORWARD - Capitalise on experiences and translate them into action plans for the future

With over 5,800 employees and 200 offices in 70 countries worldwide, RINA is a multinational player which provides certification, marine classification, product testing, site supervision and vendor inspection, training and engineering consultancy services across a wide range of sectors. Our business model covers the full process of project development, from concept to completion. The aim is to guarantee a project’s technical, environmental and safety - and sometimes also economic and financial - sustainability.

At RINA, we endeavor to create a work environment where every single person is valued and encouraged to develop new ideas. We provide equal employment opportunities and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected and safe from discrimination or harassment of any kind. It is the policy of RINA to provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy) national origin, age, disabilities, marital status, sexual orientation, genetics, military status, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans (veterans who served during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a badge has been authorized), and Armed Forces service medal veteran, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. We are strongly committed to this policy and believe in the concept and spirit of the law.

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