Quality Engineer

Caterpillar; Peterlee; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Career Area:
Manufacturing

Job Description:

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Job Title: Quality Engineer

Salary: 47,615 GBP - 59,518 GBP
Contract: Permanent
Location: Peterlee, County Durham
Hours: Full-Time - 36.50 - 4.5 days in office
Relocation: Not supported
Travel: Up to 10%
Job Reference: R0000299726

Job Purpose:
Caterpillar's Peterlee UK location is currently hiring a Quality Engineer. In this role you will perform advanced inspection and audits to track, analyze, and report on materials, processes, and products to ensure conformance to company's quality standards. Ensuring Articulated Truck Interplant product quality from 0 - 36 months in service.

Job duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

1. Conducting measurement systems analysis; gathering, analyzing, and communicating non-conformance data.
2. Analyzing non-conformance data and maintaining quality system documentation.
3. Participating in and offering technical support to internal and external audits; following up response of corrective action from audit.
4. Work in a team environment to develop and implement best practices that emphasize defect prevention, reduction in variation and waste and provide for continuous improvements in meeting all customer requirements.
5. APQP/PPAP execution
6. NPI execution

What Skills You Will Have:

Quality Management:

1. Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and explains results to others.
2. Communicates key benefits of a quality management process.
3. Conducts and directs quality reviews.
4. Develops expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
5. Develops quality assurance processes based on Six Sigma, ISO 9000 or Baldrige principles.
6. Develops programs for motivating employees to meet or exceed quality goals.

Collaborating:

1. Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
2. Under guidance, initiates collaborative meetings.
3. Assists in communicating shared goals with diverse groups and parties.
4. Helps promote collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
5. Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.

Flexibility and Adaptability:

1. Adjusts to new or changing assignments, processes, and people.
2. Demonstrates willingness to listen to other opinions.
3. Provides examples of shifting from task to task.
4. Identifies and considers alternative approaches to situations or problems.
5. Accepts new or radical ideas with an open mind; avoids snap reactions.

Problem Solving:

1. Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
2. Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
3. Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
4. Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
5. Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA):

1. Investigates a broad range of problems, determines causes, and finds resolutions.
2. Recommends candidates for root cause analysis in spite of chaotic organizational conditions.
3. Develops corrective action based on RCA results.
4. Uses RCA techniques such as Re-enactment, Comparative Re-enactment, Re-construction.
5. Guides others to recognize repeat situations even when they are distributed over time or happen to different people.
6. Works with a variety of RCA approaches such as safety-based, production-based, process-based, failure-based, and systems-based.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays including additional service days awarded every 2 years up to a maximum of 5 days.
• Up to 10% Bonus target
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (Contribution double by Company up to 10%)
• Share Ownership Scheme (50% company matched)
• Personalised flexible benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free onsite parking

Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.

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Posting Dates:
April 9, 2025 - April 24, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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