Quality Engineer

Permanent Futures Limited; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A component manufacturing company in Wakefield seeks an experienced Quality Engineer. This role entails ensuring compliance with procedures, conducting process control, and enhancing internal quality systems. Essential requirements include a degree and experience in the automotive sector, ISO9001 knowledge, and strong problem-solving skills. Join a dynamic team passionate about continuous improvement and quality assurance.

Qualifications

• 3 years previous Quality Engineer experience required.
• Experience in the automotive industry is essential.
• Previous change management experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance to company procedures.
• Conduct process control and capability studies.
• Champion use of approved tools and techniques to solve problems.

Skills

ISO9001

SPC

FMEA

Lean techniques

Problem solving skills

Communication skills

Decision making skills

Education

HNC/HND and/or Engineering Degree

Job description

Overview

Quality Engineer. Our client, a successful and long established component manufacturer for highly regulated industries, is looking for a Quality Engineer to strengthen their team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance to company procedures
• Process control and capability studies
• Liaise with other sites to ensure common systems are developed
• Ensure conformance to ISO9001 standard and other customer requirements
• Adopt / implement proactive actions to obtain internal improvements
• Champion use of approved tools and techniques to solve problems and develop processes
• Report corrective action for non conformances (internal/external)
• Analyse and report on cost of quality
• Ensure quality approval is obtained for suppliers and sub-contractors
• Ensure auditing is carried out on both product and process (internal/external)
• Ensure appropriate process control and capability studies are in place
• Development of skills based training for employees including SPC, auditing, problem solving and FMEA
• Carry out benchmarking exercises in pursuit of implementing quality best practice
• Leadership and facilitation of continuous improvement team and introduction of various lean manufacturing techniques and variation reduction

Qualifications / Skills

• HNC/HND and/or Engineering Degree is essential
• 3 years previous Quality Engineer experience
• Previous change management experience
• Experience of working in the automotive industry is essential
• Experience with ISO9001 is essential
• Knowledge of lean techniques is essential ideally six sigma
• MRP knowledge essential
• Knowledge of SPC and FMEA
• Methodical and logical thinker with problem solving skills
• Decision making skills
• Good communicator
• Good presentation skills
• Clean driving licence

Quality Engineer, ISO9001, SPC, FMEA. APQP, Lean/SixSigma

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