Quality Engineer: Lean & Continuous Improvement

Polypipe Civils & Green Urbanisation; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension contribution up to 8%

Genuit Sharesave scheme

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Staff discount on Genuit Group

Job summary

Polypipe Civils and Green Urbanisation invites a Quality Engineer to accelerate quality performance across operations, product management, and engineering. You will lead CI initiatives, deploy tools, and collaborate with stakeholders to embed end-to-end quality into processes.

The role requires Lean- and Kaizen-focused expertise, strong data-driven decision making, and the ability to train and present workshops. Travel to UK sites will be expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering Lean and Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Experience developing and implementing leading and lagging KPI metrics.
• Experience of project planning.
• Experience of visual management.
• Ability to plan and deliver effective meetings and training modules.
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Demonstrable involvement in Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement, Lean tools, Root Cause Analysis and Kaizen methodologies.
• Dynamic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to train, present and conduct workshops.
• Willingness to travel to other UK locations to deliver projects.

Responsibilities

• Proactively engage with key stakeholders across Operations, Supply Chain, Product Management, R&D and Engineering to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support the Quality and Operations teams in delivering continuous improvement activities that enhance customer satisfaction and business performance.
• Increase standardisation, reduce variation and deliver quality improvement projects, including new product development and existing product portfolio activities.
• Implement, maintain and analyse quality metrics, conducting root cause investigations and driving corrective actions to improve processes.
• Support the development and delivery of the Quality Improvement Strategy aligned to the Genuit Business System.
• Capture and analyse customer feedback, using insights to improve performance and enhance communication across the business.
• Develop and deliver quality-related training to build capability and reduce NCRs and customer support issues.
• Deliver improvements to quality management systems, product specifications and standards, while supporting visual management and workplace organisation initiatives.
• Apply continuous improvement tools and methodologies such as 8D, 5 Whys, Kaizen, Gemba, Pareto and SPC to drive business improvements.
• Develop and implement plans to improve end-to-end quality systems, enhancing efficiency, productivity and cost effectiveness.

Skills

Lean experience

Continuous Improvement

KPI metrics

Project planning

Visual management

PowerPoint

Excel

Root Cause Analysis

Kaizen methods

Training workshops

Travel UK

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Polypipe Civils and Green Urbanisation invites a Quality Engineer to accelerate quality performance across operations, product management, and engineering. You will lead CI initiatives, deploy tools, and collaborate with stakeholders to embed end-to-end quality into processes.

The role requires Lean- and Kaizen-focused expertise, strong data-driven decision making, and the ability to train and present workshops. Travel to UK sites will be expected.