Quality Support

Job Description

• Improvement/Innovation: Support the development, maintenance, and improvement of measurement systems and procedures to ensure valid results; support operational compliance by defining procedures for laboratory activities (measurement, instrument programming, test, calibration) and ensuring compliance with external measurement standards and GKN specific requirements.
• Operational Compliance: Define procedures for each laboratory activity (measurement, instrument programming, test, calibration) and ensure compliance to external measurement standards and related GKN specific requirements.
• Quality Inspection: Perform required inspection, instrument programming, test, or calibration according to the defined procedures.
• Solutions Analysis: Identify and support the resolution of problems related to material and or manufacturing process.
• Data Collection and Analysis: Support internal and external reports for product/process validation, material approval, and customer specific issues or requests; retain appropriate documented information and test samples as evidence of the results.
• Equipment Maintenance and Repair: Support the development, maintenance, and improvement of measurement systems and procedures to ensure valid results.
• Audit Compliance: Provide measurement services and perform product audits to ensure compliance to product specification at all stages of manufacture.
• Process Reporting: Support internal and external reports for product/process validation, material approval, and customer specific issues or requests; retain appropriate documented information and test samples as evidence of the results.
• Personal Capability Building: Support laboratory continuous improvement activities in physical and/or metallurgical measurements of materials, components, and assemblies.

• Ingenious:
  Manages complexity – Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Ingenious:
  Effective decision making – Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Ingenious:
  Driving continuous improvement – Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborative:
  Builds relationships – Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Principled:
  Accountability – Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Principled:
  Communicates effectively – Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Driven:
  Results driven – Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.

• Health And Safety – Manages and applies safe systems of work without supervision and provides technical guidance when required.
• Data Collection and Analysis – Works under guidance to analyze data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
• Verbal Communication – Uses clear and effective verbal communication skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.
• Compliance Management – Works with guidance to achieve full compliance with applicable rules and regulations in management and/or operations.
• Data Control – Works under guidance to acquire, organize, protect and process data to fulfill business objectives.
• Review and Reporting – Works with guidance to review and create relevant, lucid and effective reports.
• Risk Management – Identifies, assesses, prioritises and manages risks.
• Analyze Alternatives and Recommend Solutions – Works at an intermediate level to analyse potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value.

Short-Cycle Tertiary Education

Experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised (over 1 year)