Quality Engineer – NPI, PPAP & FMEA

Nicholas Associates Group Limited; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Nicholas Associates Group Limited is seeking an experienced Quality Engineer to join a growing client in the Sheffield area. The role focuses on maintaining the Quality Management System and driving continuous improvement across product and process quality.

You will investigate quality concerns, conduct root cause analysis, support APQP/PPAP, and monitor KPIs to prevent non-conformances while collaborating with production, engineering, customers, and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Previous experience within the aerospace or automotive sectors would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Supporting and maintaining the Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, and industry requirements.
• Investigating internal and external quality concerns, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Managing non-conformances and corrective and preventive actions, including containment, root cause analysis, implementation, and verification of effectiveness.
• Completing quality plans as required, ensuring product and process quality requirements are clearly defined, controlled, and maintained.
• Supporting New Product Introduction activities, including APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, and customer-specific quality requirements.
• Working closely with production, engineering, customers, and suppliers to resolve quality issues, improve processes, and promote continual improvement.
• Conducting process, product, and layered process audits, supporting customer and third-party audits as required.
• Monitoring and reporting quality KPIs, analysing trends, identifying areas for improvement, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
• Supporting the management of customer complaints, non-conforming products, and containment activities to ensure timely and effective resolution.
• Reviewing, preparing, and maintaining quality documentation, inspection standards, work instructions, document packages, product release documentation, and despatch notes.
• Supporting supplier quality activities and supplier management, including monitoring supplier performance, addressing quality issues, and ensuring compliance with customer and industry standards.
• Conducting and supporting risk assessments to identify potential product and process risks and ensuring appropriate controls are implemented.
• Maintaining standards control to ensure that applicable quality standards, specifications, procedures, and customer requirements are understood and consistently applied.
• Managing calibration activities and tooling requirements, ensuring inspection and measurement equipment is suitable, accurate, appropriately maintained, and within its required calibration period.
• Undertaking appropriate training on quality requirements, procedures, standards, and customer-specific requirements to maintain and develop professional competence.
• Interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, and CAD models to support the inspection, manufacture, release, and quality assurance of products and processes.

Job description

Nicholas Associates Group Limited is seeking an experienced Quality Engineer to join a growing client in the Sheffield area. The role focuses on maintaining the Quality Management System and driving continuous improvement across product and process quality.

You will investigate quality concerns, conduct root cause analysis, support APQP/PPAP, and monitor KPIs to prevent non-conformances while collaborating with production, engineering, customers, and suppliers.