An experienced Quality Engineer who has strong experience within Quality tools like 8D, investigations, FMEA's PPAP and SPC is required for a large and reputable Manufacturing business based in Plymouth. Our client is able to offer a long term and progressive career within a Multi-National organisation.
Main Duties:
- To work in line with Quality, Safety and Environmental Policies, Procedures and Instructions.
- To identify performance trends and potential and actual non-conformances in products and processes through data gathering, analysis, monitoring and auditing.
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Decision making: To stop production, drive containment action and take corrective or preventive action. To ensure effective and timely defect management.
- To actively support the implementation, maintenance, performance and improvement of the Quality Management System by applying appropriate quality tools and techniques.
- To work independently and as a team member in conducting Quality Engineering activities.
- To propose and implement robust and cost-effective solutions and improvements.
- To carry out audits, inspections, measurements and tests in a timely and accurate manner.
- Clear, concise, accurate and data driven reporting of results, trends actions and progress.
- To develop effective relationships with other team members and departments, suppliers and customer personnel as appropriate to facilitate product and service quality.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools for quality engineering.
- To provide training support and to overcome barriers to quality improvement.
- Customer performance monitoring, trend analysis & reporting
- Process Control
- Gauging methods development for process
- Process data, trends and issues
- Support process control training for shop floor
- APQP - Support NPI projects
- Customer PPAP
- Gather shop floor SPC and Dim Check Sheet data, trend and give quick feedback
- Quick feedback to production on issues from internal and customer etc
- Scrap reduction project / BOS
- Liaison with Production to resolve issues
- Support first off training
- Document control
- Liaise with and support other functions with document management (training)
- Conduct internal process and systems audits
- Assist 2nd and 3rd party external audits and associated actions
Education:
- Minimum of BTEC or equivalent in Business/Engineering or Science - Ideally a HNC in Engineering/Science
- Experience of Quality Tools
- Ideally Lean trained
- Experience within a Precision Engineering environment
- ISO9001/14001/45001 audit experience would be an advantage