Quality Engineer

Job description

About

We are recruiting for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a well-established engineering and manufacturing business based in Brierley Hill.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a heavy engineering environment, with the role based directly within a busy machine shop. You will work closely with production and engineering teams, taking a hands-on approach to quality assurance, process improvement and resolving manufacturing issues.

THE ROLE

Working closely with manufacturing and engineering teams, your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting APQP and New Product Introduction (NPI) activities within the machine shop.

• Preparing PPAP documentation in line with customer requirements.

• Managing customer 8D reports and Corrective Action Requests (CAR), investigating issues and implementing preventative actions.

• Reviewing scrap data, monitoring quality metrics and producing QOS reports.

• Supporting internal and external calibration processes, developing in-house procedures to reduce reliance on external laboratories.

• Conducting internal process audits and daily compliance inspections.

• Preparing quality and production work instructions.

• Delivering quality-related training and mentoring to shop floor personnel.

• Creating and maintaining CMM programmes to support new and existing products.

• Carrying out patrol inspections and pre-dispatch inspections to ensure product quality.