Senior Quality Engineer

ATA Recruitment; Weston-super-Mare; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Automotive supplier in Weston-super-Mare is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to enhance their quality management processes. The role focuses on reducing errors and maintaining accreditations, with responsibilities including SOP reviews and managing audits. Candidates should have experience in quality engineering within manufacturing and possess strong problem-solving skills. The position offers a salary of £40,000 to £45,000 and a unique nine-day fortnight work schedule, contributing to a dynamic environment with growth opportunities.

Benefits

Nine day fortnight

Excellent benefits

Leadership opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a Quality/Senior Quality Engineer in engineering/manufacturing.
• Practical experience with tools like CMM/Vernier Callipers.
• Experience with root cause analysis and 8D methodology.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Health, Safety & Quality Manager to reduce mistakes.
• Raise First Run Capability after product assembly failures.
• Review and enhance SOPs and manage QMS improvements.
• Maintain accreditations and host external audits.
• Support APQP processes for new supplier components.

Skills

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Use of CMM/Vernier Callipers

Job description

Senior Quality Engineer

Somerset

£40,000 - 45,000 + Excellent Benefits + 9 Day Fortnight

The Company

We are looking to speak with aspirational candidates who have a background in leadership within a stores, inventory or materials management environment who want to join a business who can offer fast tracked career development into senior management positions.

Our client is a specialist Automotive supplier working in partnership with OEM’s to provide high-quality re-manufactured parts. After being established over 70 years ago they have been through modernisation in recent decades and are seeing huge year on year growth as they continue strengthening their relationship with one of the leading Automotive manufactures in the UK.

The company employs 70+ staff and has a £multi-million turnover. Over recent years, with a new Health, Safety & Quality Manager at the helm they have made huge inroads in creating a more effective and robust quality department and now require a Senior Quality Engineer to continue with this work.

The Role

The Senior Quality Engineer will work alongside the Health, Safety & Quality Manager and the other members of the team to reduce repeat mistakes and identify areas of repeatable improvement.

• Raising the FRC (First Run Capability) – after each product is assembled, if it results in failure at testing, problem solving will be carried out alongside root cause analysis on the failures to understand them and identify corrective measures for future assemblies
• Collecting data over a period of time to identify trends, continually reviewing after corrective measures put in place to ensure trends in right direction
• Reviewing and enhancing SOPs – Auditing and reviewing existing SOP’s to ensure they are enforced AND identifying where they are lacking, to build revisions and improvements into the QMS system.
• Maintaining accreditations
• Hosting external audits – taking any non-conformances from these and running 8D’s to identify solutions
• Supporting APQP processes for new supplier components

The Candidate

To be successful in your application for this Senior Quality Engineer role you will need;

• Previous experience working as a Quality/Senior Quality Engineer within an engineering/manufacturing environment
• Supporting Quality qualification would be advantageous though not crucial
• Someone practically minded – role will be 50/50% office/shopfloor based – previous hand-on experience working with various tools including CMM/Vernier Callipers would be highly advantageous
• Significant problem solving experience
• Root cause analysis & 8D experience
• Ability to work alone and provide support at a Senior level

The Benefits

• £40,000 – 45,000 basic salary
• A nine day fortnight – the business works Monday – Thursday every other week.
• The opportunity to work for an MD who truly values excellent leadership
• Excellent benefits

If you are interested in applying for this Senior Quality Engineer role please send your CV to Kristi Hopwood at [e-mail]

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