My client has an opening for a skilled Quality Engineer to join their manufacturing team in Fareham
The successful candidate will have a proven work history as a Manufacturing Quality Engineer ideally from an electronic or electro mechanical industry
1. Production Quality Assurance:
- Monitor and improve production workmanship standards, working with the operations team to ensure suitable technician training and monitoring.
- Ensure specific workmanship and inspection requirements are implemented to defined acceptance criteria, including IPC-A-610 and IPC/WHMA-A-620.
- Inspection, including first article inspection reports.
- Analyse and categorise production rework, identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
2. Customer Quality Assurance Interface:
- Customer complaint and non-conformance investigation, communication and corrective action implementation.
- Hosting customer inspection and audit visits.
- Product recall and field upgrade management.
- Customer satisfaction measurement and reporting.
3. Engineering and Project Quality Assurance:
- Involvement with the product design process, including active participation in design reviews.
- Ensuring robust validation and verification activities at appropriate stages in the design process.
- Working with the New Product Introduction team to ensure new products are suitably designed for efficient manufacture.
4. Supplier Quality Assurance:
- Work with the purchasing team to select, assess and approve suitable suppliers.
- Liaise with suppliers to identify root causes of non-conforming materials and implement corrective actions.
- Monitor, measure and report supplier performance.
5. Business Management System (BMS):
- Document and maintain the process maps, work instructions and forms needed for efficient operation of the quality function.
- Monitor the suitability and effectiveness of the organisation's BMS, via non- conformance management and internal auditing.
- Liaison with certification bodies when they carry out 3rd party audits of the organisation's BMS to ISO9001 and or ISO14001.
Application by CV only please