Quality Engineer
Quality Engineer
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Job Description
This opportunity is offered as a6-month fixed term contract ideal for candidates looking to gain experience and support ongoing projects and quality improvements.
Job Purpose
To support the business in driving a quality assurance mindset adopting a proactive approach to ensure all of our processes are engineered to deliver a level of quality that exceeds the customer expectations. To constantly strive to eliminate the cost of poor quality.
Principle Responsibilities
Responsible for developing processes to ensure incoming materials meet required quality standards.
Responsible for identifying and raising quality issues and for speedily resolving them to ensure zero impact to the customer.
Supporting new product introductions to ensure the robustness of product builds.
Work in a team environment to develop and implement best practices that emphasise defect prevention reduction in variation and waste and provide for continuous improvements in meeting all customer requirements.
Review and manage the customer specific requirements in specifications CAD data and drawings ensuring they are correctly applied and integrated into the manufacturing processes via core tools such as PFMEA and Control Plans.
Co-ordinating measurement activity for customer submissions such as ISIR Capability Studies and MSA.
Supporting pre-production trials to validate a production process with a high quality output
Customer facing on quality issues measurement reports and concessions
QMS interaction (NCR concessions change management audit etc.)
Main Quality contact for select customers Principle Accountabilities
Accountable to the Head of Operations and Program Management functions for ensuring new programmes are introduced to the required standard (PPAP) within the defined project timings
Supporting the Head of Operations to ensure the effective quality performance of the team
Identifying defining and implementing opportunities for process and resource improvements
Ensuring problem solving tasks are completed to IATF & AS requirements ensuring efficient and robust closure and employing Unipart Way problem solving methodologies
Support project and DFM reviews with achievable feasibility and quality directives
Supply comprehensive production support for quality issues impacting the ability to manufacture and supply goods
Ensuring Process and Product audits are being completed and acted upon in line with the annual audit plan.
Any other task as agreed by your manager/supervisor
Experience Skills & Qualifications
- Minimum 3-5years of experience in quality engineering within the automotive or manufacturing sector
- Hands-on experience with quality tools (e.g. PPAP APQP FMEA SPC MSA).
- Familiarity with IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 quality standards AS9100 experience also fine.
- Proven track record in managing supplier quality issues and customer complaints (e.g. 8D 5 Whys Ishikawa diagrams)
- Experience with auditing (internal and external) root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action processes
- Proficient in using quality management systems (QMS) ERP systems and Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings (GD&T knowledge preferred)
- Competency in statistical analysis and use of statistical software (e.g. Minitab JMP)
- Understanding of metrology and hands-on experience with measurement tools (CMM calipers micrometers etc.)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact with teams suppliers and customers.
- Proactive self-motivated and capable of working independently and in a team environment.
- Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced high-pressure environment
Employment Type
Full-Time
