Role: Senior Quality Engineer
Location: North Yorkshire (Full-time onsite)
Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 830am - 430pm ; Friday 8am - 1pm
Salary: Up to £50,000/Year + Benefits
I am looking for a senior quality engineer to join a leading manufacturer of composites within the aerospace and marine industries. You will be working in a collaborative team that specialise within bespoke one-off designs and low-volume manufacture of specialist mission-critical parts. This position will be focused towards stakeholder management, but requires a background within engineering.
They are an independent family-owned UK company with a rich history and diverse business portfolio. Their passion to drive technology forward sustainably for the armed-forces as well as the distribution industry, places them in an exciting position as they grow in this next phase of development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support Business Development by reviewing requests for quotations and contracts to ensure they fulfil all customer and regulatory requirements.
- Actively engage in project meetings to identify and advise on potential quality concerns.
- Ensure that all management system documentation is compliant.
- Produce and maintain quality plans for new projects, where needed.
- Identify and conduct audit requirements (internal and supplier / subcontractor) and capture these in the audit schedule to ensure compliance
- Support project non-conformance recovery and closure through defined QMS procedures.
- Support NCR activities, MRB meetings and customer complaint resolution to ensure root cause is established and containment /corrective actions are
completed in a timely manner to resolve any quality deficiencies raised.
- Conducting visits when required.
- Identify and present opportunities for improvement, including advising and training of personnel in matters of quality, regulation and industry best practice.
- Compile and present quality / status reports on projects with relevant KPIs.
- Conducting Customer Investigations and Liaising with customer representatives and assisting production departments with quality matters.
- Processing applications for the granting and renewal of personnel approvals, prior to submission to the Head of Quality
Requirements:
- Manufacturing / aerospace environment experience (ideal)
- Emphasis on stakeholder management
- Working with AS9100 and/or ISO 9001 standards.
- Experience of the implementation of quality tools and techniques relating to production controls and design assurance (e.g. FMEA)
- Continuous improvement knowledge
- Proactive and pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Ability to work inboth specialist quality and integrated product teams
- Hold a full UK driving license.
- Willing to visit Customer/Supplier, ad hoc meetings.
- Have the correct right to work, without expiry. Sponsorship is not available with this client
- Able to complete security clearance
Benefits:
- 27 Days holiday (goes up to 30 with service)
- 9% pension
- Healthcare and cashplan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Perks and benefits platform
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