Quality Engineer: Lean & Continuous Improvement Lead

Polypipe Civils & Green Urbanisation; Horncastle; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension contribution matched up to 8%

Genuit Sharesave scheme

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Staff discount on Genuit Group产品

Job summary

Polypipe Civils and Green Urbanisation is seeking a Quality Engineer to accelerate quality performance through daily management and delivery of strategic projects. Engagement with Operations, Supply Chain, Product Management, R&D and Engineering will be key to embedding end-to-end quality across products, processes and services.

The role requires proven Lean and Continuous Improvement experience, strong KPI skills and the ability to lead training and workshops.

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.

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 & CI

KPI metrics

Project planning

Visual management

Meetings & training

PowerPoint & Excel

Root Cause Analysis

Kaizen

Workshop delivery

Travel readiness

Tools

SPC

8D

5 Whys

Job description

Polypipe Civils and Green Urbanisation is seeking a Quality Engineer to accelerate quality performance through daily management and delivery of strategic projects. Engagement with Operations, Supply Chain, Product Management, R&D and Engineering will be key to embedding end-to-end quality across products, processes and services.

The role requires proven Lean and Continuous Improvement experience, strong KPI skills and the ability to lead training and workshops.