Quality Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote a culture of working safely by working in a safe manner at all times complying with company Health & Safety and environmental standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities, for example submitting suggestions to improve the process flow to increase the production cell efficiency or improve health & safety on the shop-floor.
• To keep the area clean and tidy throughout the day in line with 3S standards.
• Support 5s activities throughout the shop-floor (Sort, set in order, shine, standardise and sustain).
• Actively participate in training and development activities identified for either personal and/or team development advancement.
• To be prepared to undertake and support other reasonable requests made by the company.
• To ensure adherence to the Companies and departments Policies and Procedures.
• To work with new model and production support teams, providing Quality support to production activities and the projects from PPAP to SPC Analysis, FMEA, Repeatability and accuracy studies, budget control, co-ordination of master samples.
• To work with production support teams as a contact dealing with day to day concerns from the customer, provide customer with data regarding component measurements, etc.
• Liaising directly with customers (Globally), preparing and delivering reports.
• To make instant decisions with regards to containment of stock in plant or at customer.
• To put together action plans with other members of team to tackle quality concerns and communicate this to customers.
• To act as advisor to production teams with regards to internal quality and actively seek continuous improvement.
• To investigate the root cause of customer concerns internally and where possible put in countermeasures which will prevent re-occurrence (e.g. some production engineering type activities.
• Participate in the control and maintenance of the quality system, procedure writing and control, document control.
• Collaborate with design teams to engineer out areas of concern and participate fully with NPI from an internal and external facing perspective.
• Coordinate CI projects, cost downs, Kaizen activities.

Skills:

• Experience with dealing with internal and external customers.
• Basic numerical skills.
• Excellent English language and the ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work on own initiative and to achieve tight deadlines.
• Reliable and keen to develop new skills – committed to progress within the organisation in the future.
• Competent use of machine shop equipment (apprenticeship skills).
• Good MS Word/Excel skills.
• Hands on practical engineering skills.

Experience:

• Enthusiastic and positive attitude.
• Aptitude for problem solving and accuracy.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Flexible approach to working patterns and overtime.
• Minimum HNC in engineering related discipline.
• CMM experience.
• Knowledge and experience of working to ISO9001/2, TS16949.
• Understanding/experience of SPC and process capability studies.
• Experience of customer contact.
• Automotive experience an advantage.

Package:

• 25 days holiday (mostly fixed with plant shut downs) + 8 Bank holidays
• 37.5 hour week working Monday to Friday.
• 20% shift allowance on PM shift
• Permanent contract.
• Potential for advancement in Company.
• Overtime (up to 1.5 hours compulsory overtime per day depending on business need) 
• Work wear 
• Free parking
• Competitive Salary
• Working a 2- shift pattern rota.
• AM – 06:00am – 14:10pm – Monday to Friday
• PM – 15:20pm – 23.30pm – Monday to Thursday          
• 14.20pm – 22.30pm – Friday