Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer. Our client, a successful and long established component manufacturer for highly regulated industries, is looking for a Quality Engineer to strengthen their team. You will support the Quality Manager for maintaining and continuously improving quality strategies to ensure customer satisfaction is achieved and maintained.

Quality Engineer - Role and Responsibilities

Ensure compliance to company procedures
Process control and capability studies
Liaise with other sites to ensure common systems are developed
Ensure conformance to ISO
9001 standard and other customer requirements
Adopt / implement proactive actions to obtain internal improvements
Champion use of approved tools and techniques to solve problems and develop processes
Report corrective action for non conformances (internal/external)
Analyse and report on cost of quality
Ensure quality approval is obtained for suppliers and sub-contractors
Ensure auditing is carried out on both product and process (internal/external)
Ensure appropriate process control and capability studies are in place
Development of skills based training for employees including SPC, auditing, problem solving and FMEA
Carry out benchmarking exercises in pursuit of implementing quality best practice.
Leadership and facilitation of continuous improvement team and introduction of various lean manufacturing techniques and variation reduction.

Quality Engineer - Skills and Abilities

Preferably of graduate calibre, you will require strong communication skills and have the ability to engender credibility and rapport at all levels of the organisation as well as the commitment, enthusiasm and passion to drive change. The successful candidate will have the following skills, experiences and attributes

HNC/HND and/or Engineering Degree is essential
3 years previous Quality Engineer experience
Previous change management experience

Experience of working in the automotive industry is essential

Experience with ISO
9001 is essential
Knowledge of lean techniques is essential ideally six sigma
MRP knowledge essential
Knowledge of SPC and FMEA
Methodical and logical thinker with problem solving skills
Decision making skills
Good communicator
Good presentation skills
Clean driving licence

Quality Engineer, ISO
9001, SPC, FMEA. APQP, Lean/Six Sigma

If this role could appeal please do apply now!