Quality Engineer: Drive Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing

Frey Consulting Group; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Company pension

Healthcare & wellbeing

Life assurance

Cycle to Work

Training & development

On-site parking

Job summary

Frey Consulting Group is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our manufacturing and production team in Hoyland, Barnsley. You will help maintain quality standards, lead root-cause analysis, and support ISO 9001 compliance to meet customer expectations.

The role emphasizes continuous improvement, data-driven decisions, and collaborative problem-solving across production, engineering and supply chain teams in a modern manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing or engineering settings with a quality focus.
• ISO 9001 auditing experience or qualification.
• Strong knowledge of quality management systems and QA principles.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and technical docs.
• Experience with structured problem-solving methods (8D/5 Why/Fishbone).
• Strong data analysis using Microsoft Excel and related tools.
• Excellent communication to interact with all business levels.
• Self-motivated with a proactive, solution-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Support manufacturing operations by maintaining and improving quality processes, procedures, and standards.
• Lead and facilitate structured problem-solving to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Conduct internal audits and support ISO 9001 compliance.
• Analyse quality performance data and provide insights for continuous improvement.
• Investigate non-conformances, customer concerns and production quality issues.
• Collaborate with production, engineering and supply chain to improve quality and process capability.
• Promote a proactive quality culture focused on prevention and accountability.
• Support risk reduction through process reviews and quality planning.

Skills

Manufacturing environment experience

ISO 9001 auditing

Quality management systems

Reading engineering drawings

Structured problem-solving (8D/5 Why/F

Data analysis with Excel

Communication skills

Self-motivated

Tools

Excel

Job description

Frey Consulting Group is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our manufacturing and production team in Hoyland, Barnsley. You will help maintain quality standards, lead root-cause analysis, and support ISO 9001 compliance to meet customer expectations.

The role emphasizes continuous improvement, data-driven decisions, and collaborative problem-solving across production, engineering and supply chain teams in a modern manufacturing environment.