Quality Engineer
Our clients based close to Winchester have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join their growing team.
The Quality Engineer will be an agent for change. They will possess a strong character to drive change throughout the organisation and will be a “decision-maker” whose natural inclination is to base decisions on facts and data.
Responsibilities
· Responsible for oversight of the quality-related performance of assigned product streams
· Supporting daily shopfloor performance meetings and actioning quality related activities
· Attending and facilitating production initiated QRQC events
· Spearheading the continuous improvement culture in production and manufacturing teams
· Ensuring compliance with processes and procedures through continual verification of operations activities
· Conformity of product; compliance to design, customer and regulatory requirements
· Capture and analyse manufacturing metrics to identify trends, gaps and opportunities for improvement; and facilitating the realisation of those improvements
· Assist with machine and process capability studies using data and statistical techniques
· Support the running of trials and other process improvement initiatives
· Implement and support the 5S and workflow improvement activities in manufacturing areas
· Ensure adequate installation and control of fixtures, jigs and tooling and calibration/maintenance thereof
· Generate and maintain Quality Control Plans and process flow charts to support manufacturing processes
· Adjudication and supporting technical liaison with suppliers on part concerns and rejections
· Timely response to customer and internal concerns raised, including effective containment and corrective action as necessary to secure conformity of product and service
· Supporting the RMA root cause analysis activities, liaising with the operations teams Engineering support
Work closely with Design and Production Engineering to enhance the manufacturing quality assurance
· Participate in the creation and maintenance product and process flow documentation, SOP’s and work instructions in conjunction with the Production Engineering function
· Support the Product Development and Design Engineering function from a quality perspective as part of the APQP and PPAP processes
Required Skills & experience:
* Experience implementing culture change
* Experience with supplier and component issues
* Experience working with Quality Tools and techniques
Working hours:
7:30 to 16:45 Monday – Thursday
7:30 to 12:00 on Friday