Quality Engineer
Quality Engineer with an extensive knowledge of and background in the automotive industry, required to join a well-established leading manufacturer based in Kings Norton, Birmingham. Offered as a permanent contract, as Quality Engineer, you would be responsible for conducting and defining Quality Engineering activities, to ensure that the product quality fully meets customer and company requirements; ensuring customer and company quality requirements are maintained throughout production life and maintaining effective communication throughout the business to ensure a robust QMS is implemented and maintained.
A successful candidate would possess experience in:
- Conduct Internal Audits covering both Quality and Environmental Standards compliant with IATF
- Contribute towards setting Quality and Environmental Standards
- Familiarity with 8D process
- Identify 5S concerns and liaise with the relevant team(s)
- Conduct drawing and specification review as part of feasibility studies
- Evaluate dimensional and visual assessment of components & raw material, identifying errors and implementing necessary corrective action(s)
- Practical engineering experience
- Assist the Inspection Instructions based on the Control Plan/Gauge Plan/FMEA and gain concurrence form specified areas
- Conduct pre-production audits on samples prior to despatch to the customer and ensure that they meet specified requirements
- Assist with preliminary process studies, confirm control limits with Production Engineers, and agree actions to correct any non-stable / non capable processes
- Monitor process capability during production and agree actions to correct non stable/non capable processes
- Arrange for the inspection of customer returns and provide reports on causes of rejection and corrective action
- Lead root cause analysis and assist with the resolution of quality concerns
- Flexibility to undertake training and provide support within Quality Department as required
- Ensure housekeeping in the Quality area is maintained in a satisfactory condition
- Effective use of performance charts to present actions and tracking of actions & status
- To provide support to manufacturing teams to resolve quality concerns and promote quality
- On receipt of quality concerns, evaluate and implement containment activity, both internally and externally.
- Planning of workload to ensure completion of activities within agreed timing program
Successful candidate for the role of Quality Engineer must possess:
- Practical engineering experience
- Excellent understanding of PPAP, IMDS, PFMEAs, IATF
- Attention to detail
- Proficient communication skills
- Determination to ensure quality standards are met and customer satisfaction is ensured
- Preferred use of Polyworks software
- Experience of scanning arm or programming a CMM
Location: Kings Norton, Birmingham
Hours: Monday to Thursday, 7:00 – 16:00 and Friday 7:00 – 13:00
Salary: £38,000 - £42,000 p.a. dependent upon experience
If you have previous experience as a Quality Engineer or similar role within the engineering industry, then please apply today!