Production Quality Engineer — Lead RCA & NCRs (Hands-On)

IMT Resourcing Solutions; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

IMT Resourcing Solutions is seeking a Contract Quality Engineer to support the Production Quality team in Gloucester. This hands-on role involves resolving quality issues, reducing non-conformances, and driving practical shop-floor improvements.

You will lead investigations, manage NCRs and MRB, and work with Production and Engineering to implement corrective actions. On-site work Monday to Friday with a 37-hour week and an hourly rate of £27-£40 DOE.

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality Engineering, Production Quality or Manufacturing Quality.
• Strong root cause analysis and corrective actions, ideally including 8D.
• Experience managing NCRs, non-conformances and MRB activity.
• Previous experience within a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Good practical understanding of Quality Engineering tools and methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Hands-on with production teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Able to take ownership of quality issues and drive them through to resolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigations into customer and internal quality concerns, driving root cause analysis and corrective actions using methodologies such as 8D.
• Manage and progress internal and customer NCRs, ensuring issues are effectively investigated and closed.
• Review and resolve production quality and scrap issues through the MRB process.
• Work closely with Production and Engineering teams to identify root causes and implement effective corrective and preventative actions.
• Support APQP activity within the assigned production area.
• Support the development and implementation of PFMEAs, Control Plans and standardised process controls.
• Analyse manufacturing and production data to identify trends and opportunities to improve quality performance.
• Support process control measures, including SPC, to improve consistency and reduce process variation.
• Conduct process capability studies and statistical analysis where required.
• Support Quality Engineering activity associated with new products and manufacturing processes.
• Address supplier quality issues identified within the assigned production area.
• Support Lean and continuous improvement activity from a Quality Engineering perspective.
• Report on Quality KPIs and support ongoing quality improvement activity.
• Work closely with Production, Process Engineering and Operations as part of a cross-functional manufacturing team.

Skills

Root cause analysis

8D method

NCR management

MRB process

APQP

PFMEA

SPC

Problem solving

Production experience

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

IMT Resourcing Solutions is seeking a Contract Quality Engineer to support the Production Quality team in Gloucester. This hands-on role involves resolving quality issues, reducing non-conformances, and driving practical shop-floor improvements.

You will lead investigations, manage NCRs and MRB, and work with Production and Engineering to implement corrective actions. On-site work Monday to Friday with a 37-hour week and an hourly rate of £27-£40 DOE.