Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer
- Aberdeen

The Role

The Senior Quality Engineer plays a key role in ensuring that all products, manufacturing processes, and quality management systems consistently meet customer, statutory, regulatory, and company requirements for subsea applications.

The primary objective of the role is to ensure compliance with customer specifications and applicable industry standards while driving continuous improvement across manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

Quality Assurance and Control

Ensure products and manufacturing processes comply with customer specifications, engineering drawings, project requirements, and applicable quality standards.

Monitor manufacturing quality through inspections, audits, and data analysis.

Develop, implement, and maintain quality control procedures, inspection plans, and quality documentation.

Support first article inspections, product validation, and process qualification activities.

Ensure non-conforming products are identified, controlled, investigated, and dispositioned in accordance with company procedures.

Review and approve quality documentation where appropriate.

Provide a visible quality presence on the shop floor, supporting production teams to improve workmanship and ensure quality is built into the manufacturing process rather than inspected afterwards.

Manufacturing Quality

Support production to ensure manufacturing activities comply with approved procedures, specifications, drawings, and customer requirements.

Review manufacturing documentation and inspection records throughout the production process.

Verify material identification and traceability are maintained throughout manufacture.

Support inspection and testing activities including dimensional inspection, pressure testing, Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), and customer witness inspections where applicable.

Review concessions, deviations, and non-conformance reports prior to customer submission where required.

Ensure MRBs are complete, accurate, and submitted in accordance with customer requirements.

Work closely with Production personnel on the shop floor to improve in-process quality, reduce defects, and strengthen quality ownership throughout manufacturing.

Monitor and improve soldering quality, electrical assembly workmanship, and adherence to recognised IPC standards.

Quality Management Systems

Maintain and continually improve the company's Quality Management System in accordance with ISO 9001 and customer requirements in collaboration with Office Manager.

Support the development, review, and control of quality procedures, work instructions, and associated documentation.

Participate in internal, external, customer, and certification audits.

Monitor compliance with quality procedures and recommend improvements.

Support management reviews and quality performance reporting.

Review and improve shop floor quality processes, workmanship standards, and inspection practices to strengthen manufacturing quality management.

Non-Conformance and Corrective Actions

Lead investigations into internal, supplier, and customer quality issues.

Facilitate root cause analysis using recognised quality tools and methodologies.

Develop, implement, and verify corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

Monitor the effectiveness of corrective actions and ensure timely closure.

Analyse trends in quality data to identify recurring issues and opportunities for improvement.

Investigate recurring workmanship and soldering defects, implementing corrective actions and operator guidance to prevent recurrence.

Customer and Supplier Quality

Act as a primary quality contact for customer quality issues and complaints.

Coordinate responses to customer corrective action requests and quality concerns.

Support supplier qualification, performance monitoring, and supplier quality improvement activities.

Review supplier documentation, inspection reports, and certification packages.

Participate in supplier audits where required.

Support customer visits, audits, inspections, and witness activities.

Process Improvement

Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing processes, product quality, and operational efficiency.

Lead or participate in Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives.

Analyse quality performance metrics and recommend improvement activities.

Support process validation, risk assessments, and engineering change management activities.

Promote quality best practices throughout the organisation.

Work collaboratively with Production and Engineering to improve soldering processes, electrical assembly techniques, inspection methods, and overall shop floor quality performance.

Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing workmanship defects, improving first-pass yield, and enhancing manufacturing quality standards.

Inspection and Testing

Develop inspection methods, sampling plans, and acceptance criteria.

Ensure inspection and testing activities are completed in accordance with documented procedures.

Verify measurement and test equipment is…