Quality Engineer

Job Title: Quality Engineer, Blaby

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 + Bonus

Hours - Dayshift

Reports to: Head of Technical Operations

Mission of the Role:

The Quality Engineer ensures that manufactured products meet all internal standards and external regulatory requirements. This role focuses on optimising manufacturing processes, preventing defects, conducting root-cause analysis, and driving continuous improvement on the production floor

Problem Solving

Lead problem solving within all manufacturing areas to improve item yields & reduce the cost of poor quality. Monitor, track and report on COPQ and Yield, initiating 8Ds where appropriate. Implement robust Corrective and Preventive Actions to eliminate recurring issues.

Manage both internal and external quality issues with suppliers, production teams and customers. Manage and lead daily reject reviews to help drive problem containment and correction.

Advanced Product Quality Planning

Follow the Advanced Product Quality Planning framework to help coordinate the manufacturing launch of new and revised products, including establishing & managing FMEA’s, Control Plans, introduction plans, goals, training of team members in inspection techniques and methods and evaluating results, ensuring all manufacturing processes exhibit consistent and aligned compliance to all agreed formats. Understand process and measurement capability (Gauge R&R) and advise of issues when necessary. This includes maintaining and managing the calibration system for all inspection devices.

Assess and manage risks using the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) framework, ensuring improvement plans are created, and process improvements are implemented. Ensure critical and Key characteristics are known and monitored via process auditing at the different stages of new product introduction. Ensure final product quality through performing first article inspection reports.

Promote and produce templates for problem-solving opportunities with the production technicians, sharing continuous Improvement knowledge, skills and techniques to continually increase the levels of understanding with the production technicians.

Continuous Improvement

Lead and participate in CI projects, and in conjunction with project team members, clearly communicate project outcomes so that the production technicians can ...