Hands-On Quality Engineer (Contract) – Manufacturing

Terry Parris Associates; Marden; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

TPA Recruit is supporting an established engineering manufacturer in Kent to appoint a hands-on Quality Engineer on a predominantly on-site contract basis. You will handle production and supplier quality, root-cause investigations, and practical continuous improvement alongside engineering and production teams.

The role focuses on developing quality standards, audits, and documentation; experience with control plans and core tools is essential, with SAP experience required.

Qualifications

• Quality engineering experience in manufacturing or engineering.
• Experience in root-cause investigation, corrective action and problem solving.
• Familiar with control plans, SPC, FMEA, MSA, PPAP, APQP and 8D.
• SAP experience in a manufacturing environment is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement quality standards and QC systems across manufacturing.
• Monitor quality performance, KPIs and defect trends.
• Inspect and test materials, equipment, processes and products against defined quality requirements.
• Investigate product and production issues and drive corrective actions and sustainable improvements.
• Work closely with Production, Engineering, Sales and Purchasing to build quality into processes and products.
• Create and maintain work instructions, control plans and other quality/process documentation.
• Chair quality improvement meetings and ensure improvement actions are documented and progressed using PDCA.
• Create internal and external audit plans, conduct audits and support supplier audit activity.
• Work with suppliers to improve quality performance and close identified gaps.
• Promote a strong quality culture and lead by example across the manufacturing environment.

Skills

Quality engineering

Root-cause investigation

Structured problem solving

Communication skills

Tools

SAP

Job description

TPA Recruit is supporting an established engineering manufacturer in Kent to appoint a hands-on Quality Engineer on a predominantly on-site contract basis. You will handle production and supplier quality, root-cause investigations, and practical continuous improvement alongside engineering and production teams.

The role focuses on developing quality standards, audits, and documentation; experience with control plans and core tools is essential, with SAP experience required.