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SalaryQuality 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 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 responsibilities:
- Conduct Internal Audits covering both Quality and Environmental Standards
- Contribute towards setting Quality and Environmental Standards to ISO 14001
- Identify 5S concerns and liaise with the relevant team
- Conduct drawing and specification review as part of feasibility studies
- 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
- Assist the Inspection Instructions based on the Control Plan/Gauge Plan/FMEA and gain concurrence from specified areas
- Conduct pre-production audits on samples prior to despatch to customer, ensuring meeting of 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 inspection of customer returns, 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
Successful candidate for the role of Quality Engineer must possess:
- Practical engineering experience in an automotive manufacturing environment
- Previous experience as Quality Engineer
- Excellent understanding of ISO9001, IATF16949, ISO14001, APQP and PPAP
- Attention to detail
- Proficient communication – written and verbal
- 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
Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands
Hours of Work: Mon to Thurs 7am to 4pm, Fri 7am to 1pm
Salary: £38,000 p.a. to £40,000 p.a. (dependent upon experience)
If you have the skills and experience to fulfil the role of Quality Engineer, please APPLY TODAY!
