Quality Engineer

This opportunity is offered as a 6-month fixed term contract , ideal for candidates looking to gain experience and support ongoing projects and quality improvements.

Job Purpose

To support the business in driving a quality assurance mindset, adopting a proactive approach to ensure all of our processes are engineered to deliver a level of quality that exceeds the customer expectations. To constantly strive to eliminate the cost of poor quality.

Responsible for developing processes to ensure incoming materials meet required quality standards.

Responsible for identifying and raising quality issues and for speedily resolving them to ensure zero impact to the customer.

Supporting new product introductions to ensure the robustness of product builds.

Work in a team environment to develop and implement best practices that emphasise defect prevention, reduction in variation and waste and provide for continuous improvements in meeting all customer requirements.

Review and manage the customer specific requirements in specifications, CAD data and drawings, ensuring they are correctly applied and integrated into the manufacturing processes via core tools such as PFMEA and Control Plans.

Co-ordinating measurement activity for customer submissions such as ISIR, Capability Studies and MSA.

Supporting pre-production trials to validate a production process with a high quality output

Customer facing on quality issues, measurement reports and concessions

Main Quality contact for select customers Principle Accountabilities

Accountable to the Head of Operations and Program Management functions for ensuring new programmes are introduced to the required standard (PPAP) within the defined project timings

Supporting the Head of Operations to ensure the effective quality performance of the team

Identifying, defining and implementing opportunities for process and resource improvements

Ensuring problem solving tasks are completed to IATF & AS requirements, ensuring efficient and robust closure and employing Unipart Way problem solving methodologies

Support project and DFM reviews with achievable feasibility and quality directives

Supply comprehensive production support for quality issues impacting the ability to manufacture and supply goods

Ensuring Process and Product audits are being completed and acted upon in line with the annual audit plan.

Any other task as agreed by your manager/supervisor

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5years of experience in quality engineering within the automotive or manufacturing sector

Unipart House
Garsington Road
Cowley
Oxford
OX4 2PG
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