Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer
Permanent
Yeadon
Immediate start
Global manufacturing organisation

Are you an experienced Quality Engineer? Do you have experience working in a fast paced engineering/manufacturing environment? If so, our client is a leading manufacturing business who specialise in delivering precision components for a variety of industries. I am looking for a Quality Engineer Supervisors to join a very successful business on an permanent basis.

Overall Purpose:
To analyse and reduce non-conformances within the facility to ensure the delivery of world class components that are fit for purpose in a timely manner and at a competitive cost.

Key Responsibilities:
• Act as customer quality contact including purchase order, component drawing, customer and International specification reviews and approval of sales shipments.
• Review and over check of customer procedures and quality documentation
• Reduce complaints, returns and escapes by identifying robust corrective actions. In the format of RCCA or 8D reports
• Control of changes and fixed process approvals including metallurgical and dimensional FAIR reviews and submissions to the customer.
• Maintain customer and international approvals as necessary
• Conduct audits to ensure quality management system is robust including vertical and customer audits.
• Contribute as required to the development of new products
• Help educate and train inspectors on the customer’s quality requirements
• Review and approve internal concession notes
• Raise customer concessions and non-conformance report and ensure closure with required actions
• Work closely with Product Engineering teams to resolve problems and reduce scrap
• Work closely with Manufacturing teams to resolve problems and reduce rework
• Perform work efficiently and in a positive manner
• Be proactive in identifying opportunities to improve the effectiveness of our quality systems
• Internal scrap and non-conformance
• AS9100 retention
• Liaise with internal and external customers on a regular basis
• Plan and carry out all internal audits
• Close out of non-conformance

Experience / skills
A Quality Engineer should be able to demonstrate real world experience of key skills such as:
• Root cause investigations and problem solving
• Clear and concise auditing and report writing
• Understanding and implementation of customer requirements/specifications
• Management of key quality metrics and budgets
• Good understanding of quality assurance accreditations (AS9100, etc….)
• Experience of customer and internal audits
• Project management experience

Qualifications – Would ideally have a degree in engineering but not essential. As a minimum an A level in maths or equivalent.

Key Requirements – Has to love a challenge and be well driven to succeed and make a difference.

Hours of work:
7.30 to 16.30 Mon/Tues
7.30 to 16.15 Wed/Thurs
7.30 to 12.00 noon Friday