Quality Engineer - High-Volume Hardware, Equity, Hybrid

Shellworks; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12 weeks maternity leave

6 weeks paternity leave

Wellbeing allowance

Virtual GP

Cycle to work

Daily catered lunch

Job summary

Shellworks in London is seeking a hands‑on Quality Engineer to ensure every Vivomer part meets spec across our high‑volume manufacturing partners. You will work with design, materials and production teams on factory floors, with regular travel to Europe and Asia.

You have 3–5 years in quality engineering, a degree in materials science or polymers, and hands‑on metrology, SPC and GD&T experience. The role offers equity and hybrid work with 4 days in the office.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years in quality engineering, ideally at a high volume consumer hardware or packaging manufacturer.
• A degree in materials, polymers, mechanical engineering or similar.
• You've run quality processes on production lines and taken a product from design through to mature production.
• Hands on with metrology, GD&T, SPC, MSA and capability studies.
• You've worked with suppliers on the factory floor and know what good looks like.
• A structured problem solver: 8D, 5 whys, fishbone.
• You understand how a material's behaviour shows up in a finished part.
• Excited to build the frontier of how materials are made.
• High tolerance for ambiguity, low tolerance for bureaucracy.

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into test plans and quality plans.
• Design in line testing and aesthetic standards with our partners so every part is validated before it ships.
• Run measurement system analysis, capability studies and SPC on new and running products.
• Review our existing checks regularly: cut the ones that don't add value and add the ones that are missing.
• Support audits and qualification of new manufacturing partners.
• Run process qualification for new tools and products at our partners.
• Track partner performance and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Run incoming inspection and traceability.
• Inspect parts and raise NCRs when they're not up to standard, and decide on rework or rejection.
• Train and support the inspectors and technicians at our partners who run the checks we define.
• Lead root cause analysis on line issues and customer complaints, and fix them for good.
• Work with our Quality Manager to select and roll out our quality management system as we scale into production.
• Help build our quality procedures, documentation and change control, without the bureaucracy.

Skills

Quality engineering

Metrology

GD&T

SPC

MSA

Root cause analysis

Supplier management

Problem solving

Education

Degree in materials science or polymers

Tools

CMM

Measurement equipment

Job description

Shellworks in London is seeking a hands‑on Quality Engineer to ensure every Vivomer part meets spec across our high‑volume manufacturing partners. You will work with design, materials and production teams on factory floors, with regular travel to Europe and Asia.

You have 3–5 years in quality engineering, a degree in materials science or polymers, and hands‑on metrology, SPC and GD&T experience. The role offers equity and hybrid work with 4 days in the office.