Job Title: Product Quality Non-Conformance Engineer
Location: Bolton, UK
Duration: 6 months, with a likelihood of extension
Pay Rate: Up to £30 per hour (PAYE)
Job Description:
The company is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Quality Engineer to join their Non-Conformance team. The successful candidate will provide critical support to the Manufacturing teams in the UK, ensuring that non-conformance issues are effectively managed and resolved. This role involves a variety of responsibilities, including data analysis, problem-solving, and the facilitation of non-conformance meetings. The candidate will also be responsible for managing customer concerns and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders across Europe.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide frontline management of non-conformance issues, supporting Manufacturing functions with the administration and containment of non-conformities.
- Collect and analyse non-conformance data using the company's business tools, such as Google NLP, to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Implement and verify permanent corrective actions.
- Compile business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for communication at all levels within the organisation.
- Conduct data analysis, including CQN (Rework/Scrap), returns, and yields.
- Facilitate Practical Problem Solving activities, determine root causes, and implement robust corrective actions using relevant Quality Tools.
- Support the transfer of new products into manufacturing by analysing historical data and applying lessons learned.
- Facilitate non-conformance meetings across various levels, from Shop Floor to Manufacturing Heads, escalating issues as necessary.
- Manage customer concerns and escapes, coordinating with inter-company facilities in Europe (France, Italy, and Germany) and with external customers.
- Oversee inscapes between business units within Manufacturing.
- Interface with the Programs Quality representative and broader Quality teams, sharing data and progressing non-conformities and improvements.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Ideally qualified to a minimum HNC/HND level in a relevant subject or with equivalent relevant work experience.
- Excellent analytic skills, with the ability to use data to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.
- Confident in reporting to all levels of the business.
- Strong practical problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead and facilitate improvement activities.
- Good planning and organising abilities, with a focus on prioritising and monitoring multiple tasks to meet set objectives.
- Highly self-motivated, with a strong determination and persistence to overcome obstacles and achieve results.
Gi Group Holdings Recruitment Limited group of companies includes Gi Recruitment Limited, Draefern Limited, Gi Group Recruitment Ltd, INTOO (UK) Limited, Marks Sattin (UK) Limited, TACK TMI UK Limited, Grafton Professional Staffing Limited, Encore Personnel Services, Kelly Staffing Ireland Limited and Kelly Services (UK) Ltd. Kelly Services (UK) Ltd are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this role.
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