Quality Engineer - Plastic & Rubber Manufacturing Shifts- Monday-Thursday 8:00-17:00, Friday 8:00-13:00 NO WEEKEND WORK Location- Northampton, Northamptonshire. Onsite role Salary- £36,000-£38,000 What you'll do to be a successful Quality Engineer: Lead quality assurance processes, ensuring products meet industry and customer standards. Dealing and responding with any returns from customers, then analysing where any issues or defects are coming from. Lead problem solving activities, utilising industry standard methodologies: 8D's, 5 Whys, 3C, DMAIC, Ishikawa fish bone diagrams, FMEA's Liaising with different internal departments, such as production and management Measurements of parts will be key using a variety of different skills and tools. Perform inspections, audits, third party audits also, and testing on plastic and rubber components. Co-ordination of document control specifications, standards, procedures Education and desired skills to have to be a successful Quality Engineer: Strong experience working with automotive customers quality systems and understanding customer requirements. Bachelor/Masters degree with a technical focus or time served in a comparable role. An understanding of both ISO9001 and IATF16949. An understanding of Quality tools and techniques (8D, Lean, 5 whys, Pareto Analysis, Six- Sigma, DFMEA, PFMEA, PPAP, APQP, MSA etc preferred). Experience of rubber & plastic injection moulding industry would be an advantage