Lead Quality Engineer

Job Title:

Lead Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Monday - Friday with half day Friday (37.5 hours per week)

Benefits – Pension, 25 day holiday  8 BH (33 days), health scheme and realistic, ongoing career advancement opportunities

Fantastic opportunity for a motivated and results driven Lead Quality Engineer to undertake a key Quality Engineering role within a world-class business.

Supporting key new product development programmes and continued emphasis on manufacturing quality, this highly successful pioneering design, development and manufacturing organisation are seeking an experienced Quality Engineer.  In this critical role, you will act as the Quality representative tasked with driving improvements that improve the overall cost of quality and help deliver on time in full.

You will have a quality background which covers product quality and systems but with a product and lean quality focus, and you will have the passion and drive to continually evolve quality within this leading, state of the art business.

You will ideally need to come from a complex assembly or related manufacturing background and key responsibilities will include:

Using your tenacity to drive quality improvements programmes across the business.
Supporting maintenance of quality systems.
Playing a key role in New Product Introduction and production ramp up, to drive seamless new product launches and instil a zero-defect culture utilising your lean quality skills including Design for Manufacturing Assembly (DFMA) process flow generation through to design and process FMEA review.
Supporting the development of control plans for key projects
RCCA – Root Cause Corrective Actions – driving the investigation of quality issues
Supporting APQP and PPAP initiatives
The ability to work individually and as part of a team to maximise the challenges of this position is essential.

To succeed in this key Quality role (with ongoing opportunity for further professional development and advancement) you will ideally need to be an experienced Quality Engineer and:

Degree / HNC qualified in an engineering or related discipline (or have proven industry experience in place of)
A manufacturing quality background, ideally assembly manufacturing background, in a low / medium volume environment or volume ramp up (although other similar backgrounds considered).
Be familiar with driving Quality Improvement Programmes
Conversant with lean quality / continuous improvement / statistical analysis tools such as statistical process control (SPC), Process FMEA (PFMEA) Pareto analysis, 8D, 5s or similar
Have a working knowledge of APQP and control plans.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Please apply via the link or contact Alison Kemp for further details

Likely to suit individuals with a background as but not limited to Product Quality  Engineer, Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer,  Senior Quality Engineer, Project Quality Engineer, Programme Quality Engineer, QA Leader, Business Improvements Engineer, QA systems engineer, lean engineer, Quality Manager, Quality Assurance Engineer or similar