- Are you organised, detail-focused and interested in supporting quality within a growing engineering business?
- Do you enjoy keeping change, inspection and quality activities moving through to completion?
- Would you like a hands-on role supporting electronic and electrical products, production and continuous improvement?
Viper Innovations is a King’s Award-winning engineering technology company partnered with The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). We deliver advanced monitoring and asset integrity solutions that protect mission-critical electrical systems in subsea energy, rail, and industrial sectors worldwide.
The Role:
We are looking for a temporary Quality Administrator to join our Operations Engineering team. This hands-on role supports product quality, change control and continuous improvement, working closely with Production, Supply Chain, Product Engineering and Configuration Management. You will help keep quality and change activities moving while ensuring records are accurate, complete and traceable.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Manage the Change Request process from submission through review, approval, implementation and closure, keeping CRF records accurate and actions progressing.
- Inspect products, components, PCBAs and assemblies against drawings, specifications and workmanship standards, recording results and identifying non-conformances.
- Review and approve production paperwork within defined authority, ensuring records are complete, accurate and traceable and returning errors for correction.
- Manage NCRs and quarantined material, ensuring issues are recorded, controlled and progressed through disposition, corrective action and closure.
- Compile quality data and use inspection results, NCRs, First Time Yield and Cost of Quality information to identify recurring issues and improvement opportunities.
- Support structured problem solving, supplier quality activities and continuous improvement, while maintaining clear reporting and escalating technical decisions to authorised personnel.
What We Are Looking For:
- Relevant BTEC, HNC, HND or equivalent qualification, or suitable practical experience.
- Strong organisation and attention to detail, with confidence reviewing production and quality records.
- A proactive approach, good communication skills and the ability to take ownership of assigned activities and follow actions through to completion.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.
- The ability to work within defined authority, collaborate across teams and maintain accurate, concise and traceable records.
Desirable, but not essential:
- Experience in an electronics, electrical, manufacturing, production or quality environment.
- Experience of product inspection, particularly electronic or electromechanical assemblies and PCB/PCBA workmanship.
- Experience with CRFs/change control, NCRs, production documentation or continuous improvement; IPC-A-610, IPC/WHMA-A-620 or Six Sigma training/certification would also be advantageous.
What's in it for You?
- 26 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy or sell 5 additional days)
- Life assurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Attractive contributory pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme/volunteering scheme/electric car scheme available
- Hybrid & flexible working arrangements: Our flexible working hours include core hours from 10am to 3pm, allowing employees to structure their start and finish times.
- Bonus Scheme to celebrate the company’s successes and individual performance
Note on Sponsorship: We regret to inform you that at this time, we are unable to offer sponsorship for work authorisation for this role. Therefore, candidates must possess valid authorisation to work in the UK without requiring visa sponsorship.