Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) Technician

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Job Title: Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) Technician

Salary: 19.72 ph

Location: Shrewsbury

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave

• Up to 6% Bonus

• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employees contribution Up to 10%

• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employees contribution.

• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans EV car lease holiday purchase.

About IPSD

Caterpillars Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L Cat and Perkins engines that power over 5000 applications including Marine Petroleum Industrial Applications Electric Generators and Locomotives. Caterpillars company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future.

Job Summary

We are looking to recruit two Supplier Quality Engineering Technicians to support the ongoing development of our Supplier Quality capability at CAT Shrewsbury.

This role sits within the Supplier Quality Pillar and plays a key part in ensuring that both internally manufactured components and externally sourced parts meet the required standards to support safe capable and rightfirsttime production.

Working closely with Quality Process and Operations teams the SQE Technicians will support inspection investigation and continuous improvement activities helping to ensure that quality issues are identified early understood clearly and addressed at source.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting internal and external supplier quality activities ensuring components meet specification and are fit for purpose

• Coordinating and supporting inspection and measurement activity aligned to control plans and engineering requirements

• Working with Quality Process and Supplier Quality teams to support structured investigations and rootcause analysis

• Contributing to the development and application of inspection methods measurement strategies and SPC

• Supporting the identification and monitoring of criticaltoquality characteristics

• Collecting and interpreting data to support factbased decisionmaking and improvement activity

• Helping ensure alignment between internal processes and supplier quality expectations

• Supporting continuous improvement activity by identifying opportunities to enhance capability consistency and efficiency

What This Role Offers

• The opportunity to play a key role in strengthening Supplier Quality across both internal and external supply chains

• Exposure to endtoend manufacturing processes working closely with Engineering Quality and Operations

• The chance to develop skills in inspection investigation and continuous improvement

• A collaborative environment focused on delivering safe capable and highquality outcomes

About You

We are looking for individuals who are:

• Practically minded with a strong interest in manufacturing and quality

• Comfortable working with data measurement and technical information

• Strong communicators able to work across teams and functions

• Proactive and detailfocused with a problemsolving mindset

• Keen to contribute to building robust and consistent quality processes

Experience in areas such as inspection measurement manufacturing or quality engineering would be beneficial but attitude approach and willingness to learn are equally important.

NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.

Pending the number of applications the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.

This job is subject to U.S. and U.K. rules concerning the export and protection of controlled or protected technologies or information including but not limited to U.S. State Department regulations at International Traffic in Arms (ITAR) 22 C.F.R. 120 et. seq.; the Export Administration Regulation 15 C.F.R. 730-774; and the Foreign Assets Control Regulations 31 C.F.R. 500-598 and the United Kingdom Official Secrets Act 1989 (collectively Export Control and Protection of Information Laws) and you may be subjected to additional security screening / checking.

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