Quality Engineer - Drive First-Time Quality in Manufacturing

Ridgway Machines Ltd; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

25 days paid annual leave (incl. 3 for

8 bank holidays

Company Bonus scheme

Family friendly policies

Training and Personal Development

Some onward International Travel Opps

Complementary corporate work wear

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

Ridgway Machines Ltd, based at Meridian Business Park in Leicester, is seeking a Quality Engineer to join the growing Quality team. The role focuses on right-first-time delivery, reducing quality issues, and strengthening quality processes across the full machine lifecycle.

You will own day-to-day quality activities, ensuring products, processes and suppliers meet customer, engineering and regulatory requirements while supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Quality Engineer or Quality Assurance role within an engineering or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve quality processes, procedures and systems.
• Review engineering drawings, specifications and customer requirements from a quality perspective.
• Develop and maintain inspection and test plans.
• Carry out first-off, in-process and final inspections.
• Support Factory Acceptance Testing and final machine release activities.
• Manage quality records, documentation and traceability requirements.
• Identify and mitigate quality risks throughout project execution.
• Support ISO 9001 compliance, quality plans, document control and calibration activities.
• Conduct internal, supplier, product and process audits.
• Manage internal non-conformances and corrective actions through to completion.
• Lead or support root cause investigations using structured quality methodologies.
• Analyse quality performance data and produce meaningful KPI reporting.
• Work with suppliers to resolve quality concerns and improve performance.
• Carry out supplier visits to verify quality standards and monitor high-risk or high-value fabrications and components.
• Support the investigation and resolution of customer quality issues.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce defects, rework, scrap and customer complaints.

Skills

Quality Engineering

ISO 9001

Reading drawings

Metrology

Root Cause Analysis

Quality systems

Stakeholder management

MS Office

Education

HNC/HND in Engineering

Degree in Engineering

Apprenticeship

Quality/auditing qualifications

Tools

8D

FMEA

5 Why

Job description

Ridgway Machines Ltd, based at Meridian Business Park in Leicester, is seeking a Quality Engineer to join the growing Quality team. The role focuses on right-first-time delivery, reducing quality issues, and strengthening quality processes across the full machine lifecycle.

You will own day-to-day quality activities, ensuring products, processes and suppliers meet customer, engineering and regulatory requirements while supporting continuous improvement initiatives.