Site Quality Engineer — Drive Process Improvement & Compliance

Adepto Technical Recruitment Ltd; Somercotes CP; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Quality Engineer role with a Derbyshire-based manufacturer on a contract (Inside IR35) basis. The position focuses on ensuring materials, processes, equipment, and finished products meet quality standards and regulatory requirements from day one.

You will drive quality improvement initiatives, manage risk, and support audits, while collaborating with Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, and technical teams to deploy robust quality systems.

Qualifications

• Quality experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience planning and executing qualification and validation activities.
• Strong root cause analysis and problem-solving with corrective actions.
• Confident analysing data to identify trends, with experience in process development and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills — able to engage stakeholders at all levels, lead change across cross‑functional teams, and present findings clearly.
• Structured, detail-focused approach, with sound judgement balancing quality, compliance, and operational risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality risk assessments using recognised methodologies such as FMEA and HACCP, ensuring mitigation plans are implemented and maintained.
• Support the qualification and validation of material, process, equipment, and packaging changes to meet quality, process capability, and efficiency targets.
• Investigate non-conformances, customer complaints, supplier issues, and batch failures to root cause, implementing sustainable corrective actions and managing containment and disposition of affected material.
• Analyse quality and process performance data to identify trends and risks, then lead continuous improvement projects that act on them.
• Own quality documentation — developing, reviewing, and maintaining procedures and work instructions, and deploying new or revised standards across the site.
• Conduct audits, inspections, and verification activities, and support internal, customer, and certification audits.
• Deliver training and coaching to build site‑wide understanding of quality requirements and best practice.

Skills

Quality experience

Qualification & validation

Root cause analysis

Data analysis

Cross-functional influence

Attention to detail

Tools

Excel

SAP

Job description

Quality Engineer role with a Derbyshire-based manufacturer on a contract (Inside IR35) basis. The position focuses on ensuring materials, processes, equipment, and finished products meet quality standards and regulatory requirements from day one.

You will drive quality improvement initiatives, manage risk, and support audits, while collaborating with Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, and technical teams to deploy robust quality systems.