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Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Quality Systems Engineer to join its London team. This role focuses on developing and implementing a world-class quality management system (QMS) for Anduril's UK operations, including internal manufacturing sites, supplier sites, and allied facilities.
You will lead the development, execution, and management of the QMS and its top-level processes, coordinating resources and prioritization for internal and external audits. A key responsibility is overseeing QMS software implementation and adoption across Anduril sites, including the London facility.
The role carries significant responsibility for ensuring compliance with UK and European regulatory frameworks, including UK MOD Defence Standards (DEF STANs), UKCA marking, and Health & Safety Executive (HSE) regulations for defense manufacturing. You will drive compliance with NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) for aerospace quality, including STANAG 4107, STANAG 4159, STANAG 4161, and their associated Allied Quality Assurance Publications (AQAP-2110, AQAP-2210, AQAP-2310). You will also ensure conformance to STANAG 4404 and AQAP-2210 for software-intensive aerospace systems, and support implementation of STANAG 4685 (Airworthiness) requirements for unmanned aerial systems.
You will liaise with UK MOD Quality Assurance representatives, the Defence Quality Assurance (DQA) organisation, and NATO Quality Assurance authorities to support Government Quality Assurance (GQA) activities and audits. You will partner with business systems, product quality, and manufacturing engineering teams to prepare new processes, digital tools, and sites to meet QMS requirements, and conduct internal audits before manufacturing and production readiness reviews.
Additional responsibilities include developing the internal QMS roadmap for tools and capabilities to match company scaling, ensuring compliance with UK data protection requirements (UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018), becoming a systems expert for Anduril's quality tools and processes, communicating with external audit agencies and NATO authorities, managing the QMS internal audit program, identifying continuous improvement opportunities aligned with AS9100 and NATO AQAP frameworks, and supporting QMS training development and root cause analysis initiatives.
Expected travel is up to 20% of the time, including travel to US facilities and NATO partner sites.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree and 3–5 years of experience in aerospace and/or defence manufacturing
- Expert knowledge of QMS requirements and auditing in complex product environments, with expertise in one or more of: ISO 9001:2015, AS9100D, AS9110C, AS9120B, AS6500, IATF 16949:2016, ISO 13485:2016, TL 9000 R6.3
- Demonstrable knowledge of NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) for aerospace quality, including STANAG 4107, STANAG 4159, STANAG 4161, and their associated Allied Quality Assurance Publications (AQAP-2110, AQAP-2210, AQAP-2310)
- Familiarity with UK MOD Defence Standards (DEF STANs) and Government Quality Assurance (GQA) processes
- Understanding of UK regulatory frameworks relevant to defence manufacturing, including UK Export Control Act 2002, HSE regulations, and UKCA/CE marking requirements
- Working knowledge of QMS software solutions (e.g., Net Inspect, Siemens, SAP, ETQ, One Factory, MasterControl, Compliance Quest, Hexagon, PTC, QT9)
- Hands-on experience with data analytics platforms, reporting tools, and basic data visualisation
- Demonstrated project management experience for software system implementation and onboarding suppliers and internal users
- Working knowledge of design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, deployment, contracts, and other organisations involved in company-wide audits
- Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Business Intelligence (BI) systems
- Strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion
- Proven track record of QMS implementation and success
- Right to work in the United Kingdom
