Quality Engineer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Smart 1 Recruitment Limited

Description

Quality Engineer with an extensive knowledge of and background in the automotive industry, required to join a well-established leading manufacturer based in Kings Norton, Birmingham.

Offered as a permanent contract, as Quality Engineer , you would be responsible for conducting and defining Quality Engineering activities, to ensure that the product quality fully meets customer and company requirements; ensuring customer and company quality requirements are maintained throughout production life and maintaining effective communication throughout the business to ensure a robust QMS is implemented and maintained.

Quality Engineer Job Responsibilities

• Conduct Internal Audits covering both Quality and Environmental Standards
• Contribute towards setting Quality and Environmental Standards
• Identify 5S concerns and liaise with the relevant team(s)
• Assist in maintaining Environmental Management System EMS to ISO14001
• Conduct drawing and specification review as part of feasibility studies. Identify concerns and liaise with relevant internal and customer contacts until the concerns are resolved
• Lead, or provide active input into, PFMEA meetings and subsequent reviews
• Evaluate dimensional and visual assessment of components & raw material, identifying errors and implementing necessary corrective action(s)
• Assist the Inspection Instructions based on the Control Plan/Gauge Plan/FMEA and gain concurrence form specified areas
• Conduct pre-production audits on samples prior to despatch to the customer and ensure that they meet specified requirements
• Assist with preliminary process studies, confirm control limits with Production Engineers, and agree actions to correct any non-stable / non capable processes
• Monitor process capability during production and agree actions to correct non stable/non capable processes
• Arrange for the inspection of customer returns and provide reports on causes of rejection and corrective action
• Lead root cause analysis and assist with the resolution of quality concerns
• Lead improvement activities within the company
• Visit/liaise with customers and suppliers as required
• Flexibility to undertake training and provide support within Quality Department as required
• Ensure housekeeping in the Quality area is maintained in a satisfactory condition
• Effective use of performance charts to present actions and tracking of actions & status
• To provide support to manufacturing teams to resolve quality concerns and promote quality. On receipt of quality concerns, evaluate and implement containment activity, both internally and externally
• Planning of workload to ensure completion of activities within agreed timing program

Successful candidate for the role of Quality Engineer must possess:

• Practical engineering experience
• Excellent understanding of ISO9001, IATF16949, ISO14001, APQP and PPAP
• Attention to detail
• Proficient communication skills
• Determination to ensure quality standards are met and customer satisfaction is ensured
• Preferred use of Polyworks software
• Experience of scanning arm or programming a CMM

Salary: GBP35,000 to GBP37,000 p.a.

Hours of Work: Mon to Thurs 7am to 4pm, Fri 7am to 1pm

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