Quality Engineer

TE Connectivity; Hastings; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a quality assurance professional to join their dynamic team in Hastings. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring product quality and compliance with established standards. Your daily tasks will involve conducting defect investigations, maintaining quality documentation, and collaborating with various departments to implement corrective actions. This position offers a competitive salary package along with performance-based bonuses and health and wellness incentives. If you are passionate about quality assurance and eager to contribute to a safer and more connected world, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive Salary Package

Performance-Based Bonus Plans

Health and Wellness Incentives

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events

Employee Resource Group

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of MS Office and ability to handle quality assurance issues.
• Experience with ISO9001 and/or AS9100 is essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist in quality assurance issues and maintain quality documentation.
• Conduct 8D defect investigations and liaise with departments for corrective actions.

Skills

MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Mechanical measurement techniques

Reading engineering drawings

ISO9001

AS9100

Experience with plastics/rubber/molding

Education

Good general education to GCSE level

Mechanical Engineering or similar technical qualifications

Tools

Electrical measuring equipment

Mechanical measuring equipment

Job description

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Why you should join:

TE Connectivity's Quality and Reliability Engineering Teams analyze the ability of product and production systems to comply with customer and contractual requirements through established reliability factors. They design, recommend revisions and install quality control systems, develop and document analytical methods for establishing reliability of products and their components and conduct analysis on relative reliability with regards to cost, structure, weight, maintainability, facility of production, and availability of materials and equipment. Our teams develop, implement and monitor company environmental safety programs and policies to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health and safety regulations and recommend corrective actions if necessary. They are responsible for policies and practices to comply with applicable government regulations and industry requirements related to product environmental compliance, the implementation and management of technical and testing standards and specifications, quality control and reliability programs governing materials, product and processes, resulting in the optimization of material and labor, as well as failure analysis, root cause, corrective action and customer communication.

Your daily tasks:

1. Assist in shop floor (Mold Shop) Material Review Board.
2. Ensure that Customer (both internal and external) quality queries are dealt with promptly, efficiently and professionally.
3. Take ownership of quality assurance issues affecting TE product.
4. Maintain quality documentation in a neat and methodical manner, both in paper copy and or electronically.
5. Conduct 8D defect investigations and present written preventive and corrective actions to TE company standard.
6. Review the quality/effectiveness of 8D's and that Corrective Actions are implemented.
7. Form part of a team who conduct audits of manufacturing and control systems.
8. Liaise with the other departments to ensure that corrective actions and/or reworks are undertaken, and that actions and/or reports are produced in a suitably timely manner.
9. Assist in other Quality Department activities, to include, but not limited to, daily KPI measures and internal reworks.
10. Observe Health and Safety regulations as laid down in company procedures and Government legislation.

What your background should look like:

1. Have good understanding and ability to use MS Office programs (Word, Excel, Outlook).
2. Familiar with mechanical measurement techniques and be able to use electrical and mechanical measuring equipment.
3. Be capable of reading engineering drawings (i.e., BS308).
4. Have experience with ISO9001 AND/OR AS9100.
5. Good general education to GCSE level.
6. Experience with plastics / rubber / molding would be an asset.
7. Mechanical Engineering or similar technical qualifications is advantageous.

ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers, medical technology and more. With more than 85,000 employees, including 9,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 130 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS:

We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!

• Competitive Salary Package
• Performance-Based Bonus Plans
• Health and Wellness Incentives
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
• Employee Resource Group

Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.

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