Quality Engineer

Salary: £27,600 – £30,000 per year

Morgan Advanced Materials is a world leader in advanced materials science and engineering of ceramics, carbon and composites. We operate in a series of well-defined markets where our applications expertise offers our customers a valuable differentiator, engineering high-specification materials, components and sub-assembly parts that solve their challenging technical problems.

The Technical Ceramics business of Morgan Advanced Materials engineers high performance functional and structural ceramic materials, components and sub-assemblies to address customer-specific technical challenges.

The purpose of this role is to ensure Morgan Technical Ceramics Certech UK is fully compliant from a quality perspective and striving towards achieving best in class standards. The role will involve a mix of understanding the compliance standards to be achieved, supporting and encouraging the business to exceed them and interfacing with various third parties (e.g. customers, suppliers, external auditors) on all quality matters. The role will also be to ensure that the employees within the facilities are aware of their role in ensuring the site is compliant. The role will be based at the Corby site.

Key Responsibilities

* Ensuring adherence, compliance and continuous improvement to ISO9001 & AS9100

* To ensure the business remains compliant with its Business Management System through an annual audit schedule

* Ensuring that all corrective actions raised both internally and externally as a result of audits are closed out within a specified deadline and to a high standard so that there are no repeat occurrences.

* To investigate all customer complaints and issues with regards to the quality of products supplied by Certech UK and that they are resolved in a professional and timely manner with robust corrective actions

* To ensure that the business is compliant to all customer specifications issued

* To ensure that support is provided to the teams at both sites and build a culture of Quality importance and visual standards on the shop floor by facilitating RCCA and Product Safety workshops

* To achieve and report agreed Quality KPI’s

* Lead the coordination of Quality improvement activities through appropriate problem solving tools and techniques at all levels of the Organisation

Job Requirement

* Working knowledge of accreditation standards ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100 Revision D

* Qualified internal auditor at the above accreditations

* Working knowledge of RCCA tools including 5 Why, Ishikawa and 8D

* GSCE/O Level qualifications in Maths, English and Science at grade C or above.

* Experience working in a Quality environment within the aerospace, automotive or manufacturing industry.

* Experience of utilising quality tools including FMEA, RCCA, 5 Why, Ishikawa, 8D, Lean Sigma & control plans.

* Experience of working within a customer-facing role

* Management and control of a Quality Management System

* Previous proven experience of system and process audits at an internal auditor level against the above accreditation standards