Quality Engineer

Job Title:

Quality Engineer

Location:

Stourbridge

Shift Patterns:
Monday - Friday 40‑hour week starts from 05:00am

Are you ready to take the lead in driving quality excellence within a forward-thinking manufacturing environment? We're looking for a passionate and proactive Quality Engineer to join a growing business that's committed to delivering first-class standards across every stage of production. In this key role, you'll be instrumental in shaping a 'quality-first' culture implementing processes, influencing continuous improvement, and using industry-standard tools to resolve issues and enhance performance.

If you're motivated by making a measurable hands on impact, thrive on solving problems, and want to be part of a team that values precision, innovation, and high standards, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

This position offers the next step into Quality Management for the right candidate.

• Generating, controlling, monitoring, reporting, and reviewing quality data to identify and communicate trends.
• Head RCA teams in the identification and resolution of quality issues and concerns raised, using Quality tools such as 5 whys, 8D and corrective action tracking tools.
• Maintain communication of internal and external rejects to stakeholders.
• Implementing process controls.
• Recording and control of internal and external rejects and their disposition.
• Conducting scrap and customer return reviews.
• Generation of quality documents such as quality alerts/sop etc.
• Upkeep of quality data and reporting to the business.
• Physical measurement, using basic inspection equipment such as verniers, height gauges etc.
• Audit processes across the business to ensure compliance to the process.
• Inputting data and compliance documentation into QMS.
• Drive targeted improvement to eliminate non-conformances.
• Controlling and tracking the effectiveness of improvements and corrective actions.
• Identifying product, process, and manufacturing improvements.
• Reducing variability in casting quality through active pursuit of improvements to our quality system and process controls.
• Devise procedures to inspect and report quality issues and concerns.
• Manage Standard work documentation.
• Develop documentation to support the product development.
• Participate in customer audit visits and assessments.

• Proven technical foundry knowledge associated with production processes, foundry capabilities and controls for high integrity ductile iron.
• Ability to facilitate Lean / Root cause analysis projects.
• ITAF and ISO Awareness.