Senior Quality Engineer

Thomas Rose Consultants Ltd; Leicester Forest East; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomas Rose Consultants Ltd is actively seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality initiatives within a manufacturing environment. The role focuses on ensuring robust customer processes and ISO9001 QMS compliance across the lifecycle of precision engineering equipment.

You will drive continuous improvement, manage internal and external audits, and coordinate with certification partners to maintain ISO quality standards and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• ISO9001 experience and knowledge of quality management systems.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives.
• Audit experience, including internal audits; lead auditor a plus.
• Knowledge of ISO14001/ISO17025 is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Gather and monitor quality metrics focused on customer success.
• Plan Kaizen events to target product and process improvements.
• Define quality metrics during the NPI process to meet customer needs.
• Develop and manage the ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO17025 audit programs.
• Coordinate with external certification partner to maintain ISO9001 certification.
• Generate product failure reports with root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Skills

Quality management

Process improvement

Root cause analysis

Auditing ISO9001

Education

Engineering degree or HND

Job description

Role: Senior Quality Engineer

Type: Contract – Outside IR35

Location: Leicester

Rate: £45 to £55 per hour. DOE

Duration: 3 Months +

Thomas Rose Consultants are currently recruiting for a Senior Quality Engineer on an initial 3 Month Contract which is Outside of IR35 regs.

The Senior Quality Engineer will join an established engineering business which manufactures world leading precision engineering equipment and will be responsible for ensuring robust customer processes and standards are achieved in line with ISO9001 QMS.

Quality Engineer - Responsibilities:

• Gather, capture and monitor quality metrics and drive improvement activities with particular focus on customer success metrics - Installation, Right First Time, Warranty and Customer Complaints.
• Plan and execute Kaizen improvement events to target product and process improvements. Pareto results, identify and determine root causes and deliver consistent quality improvements.
• Agree and assist facilitation of key Quality Metrics defined during the NPI process to ensure that products and services meet customer needs and expectation during the product lifecycle.
• Devise and deliver the internal audit program for ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO17025 Management Systems with key focus on compliance and improvement of the QMS.
• Work with our external certification partner to deliver the external audit process for the ISO9001 QMS to achieve and maintain certification.
• Generate product failure reports to provide root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action feedback to meet customer expectation.

Quality Engineer - Skills & Experience required:

• Degree/HND level education in and Engineering discipline.
• Proven experience working within an ISO9001 quality management system with an in-depth working knowledge of ISO9001.
• Demonstrable track record of continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of quality, improvement and root cause analysis tools. E.g. PDCA, FMEA, Ishikawa Diagrams, Pareto analysis.
• Internal ISO9001 audit experience. Lead auditor experience an advantage.
• Working knowledge of ISO14001 and ISO17025, with internal audit experience an advantage.

This contract opportunity will suit an experienced, Senior Quality Engineer who has a proven track record in managing ISO9001 QMS within a manufacturing environment, who is driven by customer success and satisfaction, with lead auditor experience being a strong advantage.