Senior Quality Engineer

ATA Recruitment; Worle; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist automotive supplier in Somerset is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to help enhance their quality department. The role focuses on reducing mistakes and improving processes, requiring a practical mindset and significant problem-solving experience. Benefits include a competitive salary of £40,000 – 45,000 and a nine-day fortnight. The successful candidate will work closely with the Health, Safety & Quality Manager and be involved in both office and shopfloor activities, making hands-on experience advantageous.

Benefits

Nine-day fortnight

Excellent benefits

Supportive management

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Quality/Senior Quality Engineer in engineering/manufacturing.
• Supporting Quality qualification is advantageous.
• Practical mindset required; role involves office and shopfloor.
• Significant problem-solving experience required.
• Experience in root cause analysis and 8D.

Responsibilities

• Reduce repeat mistakes and improve quality processes.
• Analyze failures and identify corrective measures.
• Review and enhance SOPs and audit them.
• Maintain quality accreditations.
• Host external audits and run 8D solutions.
• Support APQP processes for new supplier components.

Skills

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Hands-on experience with tools

Experience in engineering/manufacturing environment

Tools

CMM

Vernier callipers

Job description

Senior Quality Engineer – Somerset

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 that can offer fast tracked career development into senior management positions. Our client is a specialist automotive supplier working in partnership with OEMs to provide high-quality re-manufactured parts. After being established over 70 years ago they have been modernised in recent decades and are seeing huge year on year growth as they continue strengthening their relationship with one of the leading automotive manufacturers in the UK. The company employs 70+ staff and has a multi‑million turnover. 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 are in the right direction
• Reviewing and enhancing SOPs – auditing and reviewing existing SOPs 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

• 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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