Quality Inspector £23,000 per annum Daventry, Northants 8am - 4pm Monday to Friday Permanent
Our prestigious Daventry based engineering client are looking to recruit a permanent Quality Inspector, they are one of the UK's leading Automotive OE small / medium volume component and accessory parts specialists.
Quality Inspector Responsibilities:
- Ensure incoming parts from suppliers and internally produced parts meet the quality standards and systems required
- Responsible for ensuring that the products produced meet quality standards required to minimise quality costs and maximise customer satisfaction whilst ensuring that procedures and processes are adhered to
- Ensure incoming materials meet required quality standards
- Responsible for identifying and raising quality issues and for speedily resolving them to ensure zero impact to the customer
- Support the management of all quality-related issues within the manufacturing team (e.g. internal, supplier, customer and customer warranty)
- Identify root cause and instigate permanent corrective actions for product quality issues
- Work with internal and external parties to resolve quality issues that arise as quickly and efficiently as possible to prevent compromising quality and safety standards
- Monitor and report on quality-related key performance indicators including scrap monitoring, rework levels
- Stop production in the event of manufacture of unacceptable goods/processes
- Ensure compliance and assist with adherence to the Quality Management system (IATF16949/ISO9001 /ISO14001 etc)
- Assist with training of quality awareness
- Report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in order to adhere to process and prevent occurrence of any non-conformity relating to product, process or system
- Assist with first off sample approvals
- Keep up with current and developing manufacturing and engineering trends that concern product quality
- Write reports and present progress at project meetings and to clients
- Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems
- Train people within own work group
- Support regular inspection meetings to establish an action plan for improving build quality
- Comply with the Health, Safety and Environmental Policies
Quality Inspector requirements:
- Assertive
- Knowledge of quality systems
- Knowledge of measurement
- Understanding of engineering drawings
- Understanding manufacturing processes
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong Problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure/cost of poor quality
- Previous experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably automotive
- Experience of working in Quality Assurance
- Proficiency in MS Office
- Strong technical knowledge
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Highly developed attention to detail
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to work well in a team environment
Please apply with a copy of your CV
CPDaventry
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