Senior Quality Engineer

Salary: £54,000 – £63,600 per year

Senior Quality Engineer

Full time / Permanent 

Based in Wotton, Surrey – own transport required due to the site rural location

Competitive salary / Bupa / Bonus / Share purchase options

Azenta is dedicated to enabling life sciences organizations around the world to bring impactful breakthroughs and therapies to market – faster.

The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the products produced meet quality standards required to minimise quality costs and maximise customer satisfaction whilst ensuring that procedures and processes are adhered to.

The Quality Engineer is responsible for responding to quality issues raised in the Quality Management System and for speedily resolving them to ensure zero impact to the customer. Support new product introductions to ensure the robustness of product builds. Work in a team environment to develop and implement best practices that emphasis defect prevention. Work mostly independently with minimal supervision and work is reviewed at team meetings, milestones and/or on completion by Quality Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage all quality-related issues within raised from the field, the installation team, Service Team and Customers.

Identify root cause and instigate permanent corrective actions for product quality issues.

Work with internal and external stakeholders to resolve quality issues that arise as quickly and efficiently as possible to prevent compromising quality and safety standards

Monitor and update Quality Dashboard and key performance indicators including Defects Per Units monitoring.

Assist with training of Quality Awareness

Promote the use of customer preferred techniques for continuous improvement such as 8D Problem Solving Methodology, Measurement System Analysis.

Lead and Participate in cross-functional teams in the push for Corrective Actions to solve customer faced problems whilst guiding teams to perform root cause analysis and resolve problems.

Independently determine approach and assigned tasks

Qualifications and Experience Levels:

· Relevant manufacturing/engineering qualification required

· Experience Level of 8D Methodology

– Experience within a Plastics/Injection Moulding would be advantageous 

· Must hold working knowledge of 5Whys and Fishbone Diagram.

· Excel, Pivot Tables, Charts