Manufacturing Inspector
About the Role
Location United Kingdom Lincolnshire Lincoln Remote vs. Office Office/Site only Company Industrial Turbine Company (UK) Limited Organization Gas Services Business Unit Distributed Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Experienced Professional
A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Quality Engineer within the Manufacturing Engineering Department, you’ll be the key point of contact for all quality-related matters on the shop floor. Each day, you’ll collaborate closely with Manufacturing Engineers, Cell Managers, and operators to drive continuous improvement and eliminate poor quality from manufacturing processes. You’ll perform inspections, review process documentation, and support investigations to identify and resolve root causes of non-conformance. Your work will not only ensure that every component meets the highest standards but will also help build a culture of quality ownership across the manufacturing team—contributing directly to Siemens Energy’s mission of delivering reliable and sustainable energy solutions.
How You’ll Make an Impact
1. Serve as the focal point for quality-related issues within your assigned manufacturing area, ensuring all processes and components meet required standards.
2. Promote quality awareness and ownership by engaging daily with shop floor teams to achieve key performance indicators (KPIs).
3. Drive the reduction of non-conformance costs (NCC) by identifying quality issues, coordinating corrective actions, and ensuring sustainable solutions.
4. Conduct inspections of components and sub-assemblies to verify dimensional integrity and process accuracy.
5. Assist in root cause investigations when discrepancies are identified, and establish preventive inspection criteria to maintain process stability.
6. Monitor and measure process capability, working closely with validation, substantiation, and manufacturing teams.
7. Support first article inspection (FAI), supplier surveillance, key feature measurement, and final inspection as needed.
8. Interface regularly with Quality Management and Manufacturing teams to align priorities, workloads, and schedules, ensuring internal and external customer satisfaction.
What You Bring
9. A time-served engineering apprenticeship or NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Production Engineering.
10. 5+ years of experience as an inspection technician, team leader, or machine operative, with strong knowledge of quality control and inspection techniques.
11. Solid understanding of process and statistical control, FMEA, SAP, and modern quality systems.
12. A proactive team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of fostering a culture of quality and accountability.
13. Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail, with a passion for problem-solving and continuous improvement.
14. Comfortable liaising across multiple teams, from operators to engineers and managers, and contributing to collective departmental targets.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
15. Great package
16. Opportunities to progress