Senior Quality Engineer

Gardner Aerospace Operations UK Limited; Temple Normanton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace components manufacturer is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to ensure quality assurance in a busy manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will lead quality-related activities, possess extensive experience in the aerospace industry, and ensure compliance with high standards. Benefits include competitive pay, pension, and generous holiday entitlement. This role is crucial for maintaining the company's commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Pension

25 Days Annual Holiday plus 8 statutory days

BUPA

Long Service awards

Death in Service

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience within the Aerospace Industry.
• Experience of Machining, Fabrications, and Treatments.
• In-depth understanding of engineering documentation and specifications.

Responsibilities

• Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process.
• Identify recurring quality issues and communicate recommendations.
• Support and promote improvement activities for products and processes.

Skills

Experience in the Aerospace Industry, AS9100 requirements & NADCAP

Minimum of 10 years Engineering experience

Experience in lean tools and problem solving like 8D, Kaizen

High attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to work in a busy manufacturing environment at our Derby site.

Working hours: 39 hours, Monday to Thursday 8.00am to 4.45pm (30 minutes unpaid lunch) Friday 8.00am to 12.30pm

Salary: £42000

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Pension
• 25 Days Annual Holiday plus 8 statutory days
• BUPA
• Long Service awards
• Death in Service

Core skills/attributes needed

• Minimum of 5 years' experience within the Aerospace Industry, AS9100 requirements & NADCAP
• Minimum of 10 year's Engineering experience
• Experience in lean tools and practical problem solving such as 8D, Kaizen processes
• High attention to detail, good problem solver and strong communication skills
• In-depth understanding of engineering/technical documentation and specifications
• A natural leader, who can motivate and lead with excellent interpersonal skill
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as this is a customer faced role
• Previous Internal auditing experience advantageous
• Experience in a quality control environment preferred
• First Article Inspection Report experience
• Experience of Machining, Fabrications and Treatments
• Chemical and special processes knowledge
• New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP + PPAP Awareness
• Ability to resolve issues logically and methodically using proven methods
• Self-motivated with a desire to learn

Seniority Requirements

A key part of this role will be interacting and communicating with shop floor operators, management and customers, it is essential you can communicate in a clear and concise manner.

• Setting staff expectation inline with department and company objectives
• Ability to prioritise work based on criticality ensuring timescales are met
• Development, coaching & support of others
• Manage and lead a team to achieve the set expectations
• Manage all quality-related issues within the manufacturing team (e.g. internal, supplier, customer)
• Monitor and report on quality-related key performance indicators including scrap monitoring, rework levels, parts per million (PPM) figures, NCR status
• Communicate throughout the shop floor, with peers, management and customers
• Carry out team supervision, development reviews & annual resource reviews
• Confident and effective verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Purpose of role and key accountabilities

To provide Quality and Inspection support for both existing and new business opportunities and to develop the Right First-Time philosophy required to become a leading supplier of quality components to the aerospace industry.

• Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process, in line with business standards and customer requirements
• Check and verify the compliance of components produced at all stages within business
• Identify reoccurring quality issues and communicate them to the chief inspector along with recommendations
• Assist in the 5Why, Non-conformance procedures, RCCA & CAPA quality procedures and produce root cause analysis of product failures
• Represent the quality function at team meetings
• Support, develop and improve the relationship with quality contacts within our customer base
• Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit product and processes
• To work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required.
• To support, develop, maintain and improve the company's quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system
• To conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and techniques to ensure that the manufacturing processes meet customer requirements
• Activities will focus on the internal Quality SQCDP requirements, including closing out actions and reporting against the company requirements
• Gardner's key objective is to ensure Right First Time, Every time! Which is achieved by effective allocation, and any issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner

Measurable performance indicators/objectives of role

The Candidate must also strive to support the elements of the SQCDP framework of the wider Gardner business.

• Safety: work in line with all accredited company safety standards in order to provide a safe working environment for all
• Quality: support the quality accreditations across the business to ensure the delivery of a 'right first time' performance
• Cost: support the continuous improvements in cost reduction activities across the company in order to deliver increased profitability and value for money to our customers and stakeholders
• Delivery: drive improvement in delivery performance to continually exceed customer expectations and targets
• People: support organisational capability and influence cultural change by embracing diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and community

Key Performance Indicators

• Reduction in quality escapes from the shop floor with a goal of 0.0004 parts per million
• Reduction in second time manufacture failures
• Reduction in rework to 0.0004 parts per million
• Manage and maintain RCCA & CAPA activities