Jackson Hogg have partnered with a specialist engineering business in the Newcastle upon Tyne area on a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer position. Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Responsibilities * Provide quality related support and advice to all functions within the business. * Provide client quality related planning, documentation and feedback. * Review and update the company quality management system on a routine basis. * Maintain the ISO 9001 accreditation of the company quality management system. * Plan and execute the internal company audit programme. * Plan and execute the external supplier audit programme. * Manage the company Issue Management (Non-Conformance) process. * Produce progress reports and metrics. * Provide support and advice to the sales team regarding budgets applicable quality standards and regulations. * Provide support and advice to the project management and engineering teams regarding applicable quality standards and regulations and any specific client quality requirements applicable to projects. * Identify risks/opportunities whilst supporting the sales and projects teams, identifying, quantifying and implementing mitigating actions, as appropriate. * Facilitate client audits, log and distribute actions then manage closure of all findings. * Hold follow up audits and reviews, as necessary, to ensure all findings are closed out in a timely manner. * Manage the ongoing review of the company quality management system and processes to ensure they remain current and effective. * Identify any gaps in requirements in the quality management system and develop then implement the gap closure method in conjunction with the process owner. * Ensure each process owner reviews and updates their area of the quality management system on an annual basis. * Identify needs for refresher training for functions where it has been highlighted (e.g. by audit, issues, concessions etc.) that process has not been understood and/or followed. * Plan then facilitate the ISO 9001 quality management system audits * Manage the annual internal company quality management system audit programme, developed on a risk-based approach, considering process, departmental functions and projects. The audit programme should also be coordinated with the external ISO9001 audits. * Support the supplier on-boarding process, including undertaking new supplier audits, ensuring a robust and consistent approach is taken for adding new suppliers to the Approved Vendors List. Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Requirements * Significant experience of quality management * Lead Auditor (IRCA Registered) in ISO 9001 (essential) 14001 & 45001 (desirable) * Diploma in Quality Management (desirable) * Full understanding of ISO 9001:2015 quality management systems. * Excellent understanding and working knowledge of processes and procedures in a complex engineering and manufacturing environment. * Knowledge of project management process and methodologies * Proficient report writing and metric generation skills backed up by strong MS Office knowledge