Senior Quality Engineer

Jackson Hogg are exclusively engaged in a Senior Quality Engineer search for a specialist engineering firm in the Northumberland area.Senior Quality Engineer Responsibilities* Provide clear leadership for the development of an environment focused on Quality.* Develop quality-process links with customers inline with the Quality Management system ISO 9001.* Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Controls Plans, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) processes and oversee continued compliance and embedding across the business.* Responsible for the inspection of all incoming parts from supply chain companies and internally produced components to meet the quality standards and systems required.* Responsible for maintaining relationships with customers and suppliers to maximise profit potential and ensure efficiency.* Manage the audit programme as well as supplier development and improvement and play a key role in ensuring project deliveries.* Work proactively with all Directors, Managers, Supervisors and Employees, to maintain a programme of continual improvement within their areas of responsibility.* Lead a ‘correct at source’ and problem solving methodology (Lean). Lead the team to achieve quality targets for customers and business goals.* Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice quality vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance* Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on Quality activities General and Task Management* Implement all relevant procedures described in the Quality Management System (QMS) and ensure compliance* Ensure that all in-house systems and procedures are updated, revised and modified to meet the needs of external certification bodies* Respond to customer complaints putting in containment actions, full analysis, poka-yokes (error proofing), and implementing short-term and long-term countermeasures* Update quality documentation and communicate to carry forward lessons learned from quality concerns in new customer contracts* Ensure that all necessary systems and procedures are in place to satisfy all customer requirements and audits* Undertake internal and process audits of the Quality Management System (QMS)* Management of the Quality Engineers and Technicians in the sign-off of parts and the resolution of internal/external quality concerns* Establish and refine quality sign-off instructions, standards and documentation* Ensure KPIs are met by working to the overall plan, including management of, and reportingThe successful Senior Quality Engineer must possess the following:* Demonstrated quality leadership experience, and experience in maintaining ISO9001:2015 Quality Management Systems in a manufacturing environment.* Strong leader, secure in their abilities that will coach, train, and mentor other managers in their understanding and implementation of the Quality Management System* Strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated use of formal problem-solving tools such as Fishbones, 5-Why’s, IS/IS Not, Read across, 8D* Background in APQP, PPAP, and hands-on experience with Process Flow Charts, DFMEAs, PFMEAs, and Control Plans