Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Glascoed Based

£30.41 an hour Umbrella Inside IR35

12 Month Contract initially.

This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Defence organisations based In Glascoed.

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):

• Review Shop Floor records (e.g. 'SMDCP' documents), 'First Off' items for Quality Dept. approval, technical specifications, drawings, and endorse Certificates of Conformity as an approved signatory.
• Perform Internal Audits, support External Audits, and support the development of audit responses and robust corrective actions which prevent identified problems from ever happening again.
• Monitor and analyse reject, rework, and RFT data, and present information to management
• Monitor and support non-conformance / quality issue management ('CAR', 'Q1', 'Q2', 'Q3', etc.)
• Drive and support targeted CI (Continuous Improvement) activities, focussing on:
  • Reduced Rejects and Costs
  • Improved operational workflows, throughput, and efficiency
• Energise others to engage in improvement activities, and support others in identifying and implementing their own improvements.
• Support Process Readiness Review (PRR), performing Quality Dept. reviews of process readiness, and supporting the optimisation of the PRR process across the site.
• Work with Manufacturing Engineering to improve the QMS (Quality Management System)
• Continually improve your own understanding of lean manufacturing methods, and core tools (including but not limited to: VSM, Root Cause Analysis, 8D, Six Sigma, TOC, MS Excel, Minitab )
• and also encourage and assist in continually improving the knowledge of others across Land UK.

Knowledge:

• Excellent numeracy and mechanical comprehension.
• ISO 9001 Internal auditor certification.
• Experience within a manufacturing environment, preferably of a similarly highly controlled nature (aerospace, automotive, nuclear, medical devices, etc.)

Skills:

• Ability to produce clear and concise written/visual instructions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential
• Excellent numeracy and mechanical comprehension is essential
• Awareness of company products and safety critical aspects
• Ability to effectively co-ordinate data collection wherever necessary to inform business decisions
• Ability to perform detailed data analysis and identify trends in data
• Knowledge and understanding of how to comprehensively contain quality issues
• Ability to lead and support root cause analysis and corrective action identification
• Ability to interrogate technical drawings and specifications

For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.