All About Us
Barrett Central Processing is part of Barrett Steel, the UK’s largest steel stockholder with over 160 years of heritage, proud to be family owned, we have 29 sites and are dedicated to innovation, pushing the business forward to ensure we stay at forefront of the industry; Our people are the driving force behind Barrett Steel, and we seek individuals who are passionate, hard-working, ambitious and demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude to help us build and develop the business, we encourage innovative thinking and have an open door for people to lead and influence change. We now welcome applications for a new opening for a Quality Engineer.
All about the role
The purpose of this new role is to ensure the production quality standards, inspection processes, and operational controls are consistently applied across the production centre. This is a hands-on operational quality role, not purely administrative and you will spend the majority of working time on the production floor and within the warehouse areas, identifying risks before defects leave the production area and supporting production teams with practical quality guidance.
The role is responsible for:
1. Managing NCRs (Non-Conformance Reports)
2. Driving root cause analysis and corrective actions
3. Process Compliance & Auditing
4. Reducing repeat quality issues
5. Maintaining a strong visible presence on the warehouse and production floor to ensure processes, checks, and standards are actively followed in practice
6. Driving a culture of exceptional product quality, presentation, and customer-focused standards across all operational areas
7. This is a hands-on operational quality role, not purely administrative.
8. Spend the majority of working time on the production floor and warehouse areas
9. Conduct routine in-process inspections across steel processing operations
10. Verify operators are following agreed SOPs, work instructions, and quality checks
11. Ensure inspection points and hold points are completed correctly
12. Challenge and correct process deviations in real time
All About You
You will have the passion, drive, and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way.
Essential Skills for the role:
13. Hands-on experience using a range of measuring equipment in a production/manufacturing environment for e.g. callipers, verniers, micrometres, gauges, to ensure product accuracy and compliance
14. Competent in interpreting measurement results and recording data in line with quality standards
15. Experience maintaining and calibrating inspection equipment to ensure reliability and accuracy
16. Strong understanding of maintaining quality processes in line with group/company procedures and standards
17. Experience conducting internal audits and ensuring adherence to established quality management systems
18. Proactive in identifying process deviations and implementing corrective actions
19. Experience managing NCRs and root cause investigations
20. Confident communicating with production teams on the shop floor
21. Practical, proactive, and detail-oriented approach
We offer you
22. Highly competitive salary depending on your experience
23. 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
24. Annual Cycle to Work Scheme
25. Life assurance
26. Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure
27. Access to health and wellbeing services
28. Barrett Steel pension