Quality Engineer
£35k
Frimley
Quality Engineer Urgently required to provide hands-on quality engineering expertise to ensure products and services meet customer requirements, based at our facility near Frimley. This is a key role to the production department where you will support in the deployment of Quality improvement initiatives. Ensure supplier quality excellence, supporting purchasing and inspection and ensuring quality excellence is carried out within production and new product designs. Aid productivity improvements with project-based activities, including new product introduction and manufacturing cell design to reduced waste, improve quality and safety, and reduce operating costs.
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with production, quality and engineering personnel to determine critical part features and review manufacturability of design.
Make recommendations to modify product and process specifications and tolerances as necessary to support cost effective production.
Provide quality engineering support to operations ensuring consistent application of quality techniques.
Resolve quality issues of capability, tolerancing, and materials related issues.
Resolve quality issues by identifying problems, examining solution options, implementing action plans, and providing resources.
Assisting NPI department in pre-production process ensuring quality excellence is achieved on product prior to release to production.
Working closely with NPI team to ensure pre-production process is supported and quality information is gathered and reported before product release.
Participate in the use of a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) where required.
Facilitate and promote use of appropriate problem-solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and effective corrective action.
Recommend and implement enhancements to the quality system that result in improved quality performance, increased customer satisfaction, and/or simplification of processes to reduce costs.
Perform supplier audits as required and provide ongoing communication/reporting of results.
Participate in the reporting, analysis and review of product and process performance to identify opportunities for improvement.
Produce supplier quarterly summaries to support supplier purchasing reviews and audits.
Supporting mechanical inspection quality decisions and investigations with a view to reducing engineering support resources.
To maintain, manage and improve non-conformance reporting (NCR) system and allocation of tasks as part of MRB review.The ideal candidate will have the following:
Excellent Communication and the ability to work effectively with suppliers, customers and associates.
Organisation & Planning - manage time wisely and effectively to prioritise multiple competing tasks.
Results Orientation - maintains appropriate focus on short- and long-term goals. Motivated by achievement, and persists until goals are reached.
Practical knowledge of IPC Standards
proven experience if Production Quality Engineering and Control within a Manufacturing environment
Experience of process management
Proven track record of driving continuous quality improvement in a manufacturing environment
Experience in the automotive, electronics or defence/aerospace industries.If you have the above skills and wish to be considered for this position or find out more details then please contact Nathan Woakes on (phone number removed) or submit your CV to alternatively, apply to this advert!
Proactive also offer a referral scheme for successful applicants - if you know anyone that could be suited to this position then please contact Proactive with there details and if they are placed by Proactive you will receive £250. T&Cs apply
Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy