We are looking to recruit an experienced Quality Engineer to join our client's head office and testing facilities based in Warwickshire. Working as part of the multi-disciplinary engineering team, we are looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about making an impact through their skillset. Our Client offers a salary circa £40k - £45k doe plus an excellent benefits package. With excellent communication and problem-solving skills, you will be communicating at all levels of the business and with external stakeholders where required.
Purpose:
We are looking to recruit a Quality Engineer with experience in the automotive industry to support the development of QMS systems and ensure continuation of audit certificates. To work with new development prototype and R&D projects ensuring all correct processes are followed.
Knowledge and Experience/ Essential Skills
- Experience in a highly controlled manufacturing environment, ideally aerospace or automotive.
- Knowledge of quality systems and processes, and how to implement them.
- Ability to work flexibly in a rapidly evolving business.
- Advanced knowledge of using and programming CMM.
- Good understanding of reading and interpreting engineering drawings.
- Full understanding of the 8D process and management.
- Good understanding of measurement methods and techniques.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure that customer and internal identified quality issues are resolved using standard problem solving methods e.g. 8D.
- Understanding and interpretation of engineering drawings.
- Good knowledge of using and programming CMM.
- Establishing and maintaining a high performing quality culture and processes appropriate to the business as it grows and evolves.
- Supporting and nurturing a learning environment of continuous improvement, working with the wider team to identify problems and collaboratively work through to root cause fixes.
- Actively use and develop KPIs to identify problems and validate controls.
- Understanding evolving internal and external customer quality needs and implement plans to ensure these needs are met.
- Ensuring that quality requirements are understood from an early stage of product design and managed from design, procurement, inspection, assembly and testing through to customer delivery.
- Supporting achievement of and sustaining ISO9001, as well as preparing for IATF certification.
- Create and continuously improve quality processes and documentation to meet certification requirements.
Personal Qualities:
- Accuracy with good attention to detail
- Able to work on own initiative
- Good communicator
- Able to work within a team
- Adhere to QMS requirements
- Flexible in approach; not afraid to get involved wherever their skills are needed.
- Be comfortable working without well-established systems and processes.