Supplier Quality Engineer

We are currently looking for a Supplier Quality Engineer to join a growing high performance vehicle engineering customer of ours in Silverstone.

The company are engaged in a number of exciting and motorsport / track-based vehicle projects – working with some of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers.

The opportunity offers the successful applicant a clear path to progress to management level, should this be of interest. 

Overview

Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with suppliers, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to establish and maintain robust quality processes for key materials used in our customer’s products.

Main Duties

You will be instrumental in driving continuous improvement, risk mitigation, and overall supplier performance – including;

• Define, create, and manage a strategy for meeting the programmes quality requirement
• Ensuring customers’ requirements are being met through establishing robust internal processes and providing engineering feedback where required
• Managing and continuously improving an agile quality management system and team
• Supporting FMEA activities
• Provide guidance to the inspection team and ensuring quality best practices are being followed
• Creating close working relationships with suppliers to ensure the development of safety critical parts are robustly manufactured
• Auditing suppliers for approval or performance assessment of new and existing suppliers
• Developing strategies to ensure visual carbon composites are in line with the customer requirements whilst having a right-first-time mentality
• Utilising 8D principles as a basis for effective problem resolution and able to facilitate the resolution of complex, cross functional issues
• Actively working with suppliers to collaboratively develop product specifications to align with process capability

Essential

• At least 2 years working in a Supplier Quality Engineer capacity.
• Ability to travel independently to visit UK based customers twice / week.
• A background working in the automotive, motorsport and/or aerospace industries.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawing requirements (GD&T).
• Solid understanding of ISO9001 requirements.
• Proven experience in face-to-face customer interactions.

Desirable

• Experience working with composite materials.
• Background working in a low-volume / R&D, high-value product environment – especially high-performance vehicles.

Perks

Employee wellbeing perks include;

• 24/7 access to an F1 Grand Prix each year. 
• Discounts on leisure facilities, gyms, retail locations, etc
• Company events (Goodwood Festival of Speed, for example)
• Free EV charging facilities onsite