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Kenya Airways Jobs. Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (SQAE). Directing quality audits, ensuring airworthiness compliance, and driving process improvements, requiring an Engineering Degree, quality certifications, and 4 -6 years aviation QA experience.\n\nPurpose\n\nTo review maintenance procedures and work instructions, supervise QA Engineers, conduct audits and investigations in order to ensure an airworthy, reliable, quality product/service is provided in a cost-effective manner. To ensure that technical staff work within the framework of the Kenya airways company procedures, and to coordinate and conduct company approval exams through the Quality Assessment Board for the Engineers applying for company authorization and recommend, or otherwise to Head of Quality for issue of authorizations. To satisfy the requirements of KCAA/EASA Part 145 and related requirements.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nCome up with planned internal audits plans or programs; surveillance/ inspections/spot checks audit plans/program, in liaison with Principal Quality Assurance Engineer (PQAE) & follow up for execution.\n\nCarry out audits; surveillance/inspections/spot checks as per audit program/assignment.\n\nEnsure planned audits; surveillance/inspections/spot checks findings are timely followed up for responses, feedback is verified before effective timely closures are done.\n\nMonitor the effectiveness of any corrective action(s) based on the feedback.\n\nProvide independent assessment of findings corrective actions, implementation & completion.\n\nEnsure feedback from maintenance/technical findings and subsequently feeding these back to the Technical Training to incorporate it into the continuation training programme.\n\nCoordinating action on SAFA findings, RAMP inspections/airworthiness inspections, customer aircraft surveys/inspections and initiating provision of root causes, corrective actions, review of such feedback, providing such effective feedback on root causes/corrective actions/closures and follow-up to ensure effective closures.\n\nHandling & follow up on external planned audits including those of CAA, certification bodies, customers to ensure successful execution; timely & effective feedback on any findings/issues raised.\n\nCoordinate and conduct approval exams for technician, certifying staff, support staff and non-aircraft authorized staff who have applied for various aircraft/component/equipment approval categories for purposes of recommendation of issuance/rejection of Kenya Airways authorizations.\n\nEnsure review and processing of staff authorization renewal applications, including accurate and timely update of records of certifying or support or authorized staff.\n\nEnsure support in AOC aircraft certificates ie. Certificate of Registration; Certificate of Airworthiness; Radio license etcs timely issuance & renewal.\n\nCoordinate, process and review applications for aircraft or aircraft components capability Inclusion.\n\nSupervise initial issue of AMO etcs certificates and their subsequent renewals.\n\nReview/ensure review of vendor application requests and recommend appropriate actions, prepare vendor authorization certificates and manage the approved vendor listing.\n\nEnsure support in applicable aircraft dispensations, concessions, and extensions.\n\nEnsure all KCAA related requests are handled accordingly.\n\nMonitor changes in applicable regulatory or certification requirements/standards and review and initiate necessary actions(s).\n\nEnsure update/update quality database with current regulatory or certification requirements/standards.\n\nReview AMO manuals to match with regulatory requirements/standards etc.\n\nEnsure that reported MORs, ASRs, CSRs are handled according to the roster.\n\nFollow up on reporting to all relevant bodies such as CAA, customers, OEMs and closure of reported MORs, ASRs, CSRs, incidents or occurrences.\n\nReview and follow up on closure of office hazards, near misses, health & safety issues.\n\nSupervise & ensure preparation of quality communications and produce reports for dissemination to relevant audience.\n\nReview & provide related performance during weekly & related sectional & other related meetings.\n\nCarry out any other duties as assigned by supervisor.\n\nMentor and show direction guidance/mentoring, motivation, give guidance for staff under him/her.\n\nReview & provide related performance during weekly & related sectional & other related meetings.\n\nCarry out any other duties as assigned by supervisor.\n\nMentor and show direction guidance, motivation, give guidance for staff under him/her.\n\nSkills\n\nEffective communication skills\n\nProven supervisory skills\n\nBasic audit process and root cause analysis 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