Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer required to join our client who are a leading door manufacturer located close to the Sidcup area. Due to their niche product range, the company have been growing effectively year on year and because of this have a brand-new position within the business for an experienced Quality Engineer to join their team.

The companies head operations are based in the UK, with manufacturing and sales teams also located overseas in countries such as Australia and the US. The company have a strong pipeline of orders which continuous to grow and have aggressive plans to increase the companies turnover this year.

Quality Engineer Position Overview

• Support leadership in driving quality culture and quality improvement within the organisation
• Providing support to our manufacturing facilities to implement the processes to protect the business against non-conformance
• Conducting product auditing across multiple stages of the production process against the required quality standards and specifications.
• Ensuring customer specifications and expectations are met
• Establish and implement improvements in quality standards ensuring Production are precisely following process and procedures to ensure repeatable performance.
• Conduct defect feedback and problem-solving activities
• Efficiently escalating any quality concerns in a timely manner
• Identify opportunities to improve Quality and implement plans to deliver that improvement
• Working with our Supply Chain Partners to prevent defects and to provide data and insight into the cause of non-quality across our Manufacturing footprint
• Sharing best practice across the organisation on management of non-conformance
• Coaching and supporting problem-solving activities within our manufacturing operation and external supply chain
• Ensuring key performance indicators (KPIs) are achieved

Quality Engineer Position Requirements

• Apprenticeship level or higher in a technical engineering discipline, alongside a background of working in an operational Quality role.
• Good problem solving, data analysis and presentation skills
• Proven track-record of business acumen relating to quality, improvement, manufacturing and HSE activities and priorities
• Knowledge and demonstrable application of Quality and BI tools i.e. 8D investigation, improvement methodologies
• Able to coach and mentor others
• Strong Customer focus
• Working to ISO9001
• Previous experience working as a Manufacturing / Process Engineer would be beneficial
• Experience of LEAN or Six Sigma would be beneficial

Quality Engineer Position Remuneration

• Salary £40,000 - £45,000 (Dependant on experience)
• 28 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Pension scheme
• Parking and food provided on site
• Chance to join a growing business with a progressive path available

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