Quality Engineer

All About Us

Barrett Central Processing is part of Barrett Steel, the UK’s largest steel stockholder with over 160 years of heritage, proud to be family owned. We have 29 sites and are dedicated to innovation, pushing the business forward to ensure we stay at the forefront of the industry. Our people are the driving force behind Barrett Steel, and we seek individuals who are passionate, hard‑working, ambitious and demonstrate a ‘can‑do’ attitude to help us build and develop the business.

We encourage innovative thinking and have an open door for people to lead and influence change.

The purpose of this new role is to ensure the production quality standards, inspection processes, and operational controls are consistently applied across the production centre. This is a hands‑on operational quality role, not purely administrative, and you will spend the majority of your working time on the production floor and within the warehouse areas, identifying risks before defects leave the production area and supporting production teams with practical quality guidance.

• Managing NCRs (Non‑Conformance Reports)
• Driving root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Process compliance & auditing
• Reducing repeat quality issues
• Maintaining a strong visible presence on the warehouse and production floor to ensure processes, checks, and standards are actively followed in practice
• Driving a culture of exceptional product quality, presentation, and customer‑focused standards across all operational areas
• Conducting routine in‑process inspections across steel processing operations
• Verifying operators are following agreed SOPs, work instructions, and quality checks
• Ensuring inspection points and hold points are completed correctly
• Challenging and correcting process deviations in real time

You will have the passion, drive, and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way.

• Hands‑on experience using a range of measuring equipment in a production/manufacturing environment (e.g. calipers, verniers, micrometres, gauges) to ensure product accuracy and compliance
• Competent in interpreting measurement results and recording data in line with quality standards
• Experience maintaining and calibrating inspection equipment to ensure reliability and accuracy
• Strong understanding of maintaining quality processes in line with group/company procedures and standards
• Experience conducting internal audits and ensuring adherence to established quality management systems
• Proactive in identifying process deviations and implementing corrective actions
• Experience managing NCRs and root‑cause investigations
• Confident communicating with production teams on the shop floor
• Practical, proactive, and detail‑oriented approach

• Highly competitive salary depending on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Annual Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance
• Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure
• Access to health and wellbeing services
• Barrett Steel pension

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