Senior Quality Engineer
Full job description
Swift Temps Ltd North West
Salary: £48,000 – £54,000 per year
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join a rapidly expanding Automotive parts manufacturer based at their plant in Liverpool.
This role will be 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.
Senior Quality Engineer core responsibilities:
* Ensuring 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.
* Working 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.
* You will manage the customer specific requirements and offer technical support.
* You will be responsible for multiple highly complex major projects requiring innovative original solutions where results are key to successful completion of major projects.
* You will be working mostly independently with minimal supervision and work is reviewed at project milestones and/or on completion by the Quality Manager
Required skills/experience:
* You will need to have the ability to communicate confidently both internally and in liaison with demanding OEM customers.
* Experience of managing multi skilled team.
* Significant exposure to a “change environment”.
* Knowledge of quality systems and measurement.
* Strong knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA).
* Lean Manufacturing knowledge.
* Knowledge of TS16949 and ISO9000.
* Understanding of ISO14001 and Health and Safety practices.
* Experience in the use of customer preferred techniques for continuous improvement such as Six-Sigma, Poka-Yoke (Error Proofing), and Measurement System Analysis
* Relevant business/commercial or manufacturing/engineering degree preferred, or ONC, A Levels, BTec Diploma Level 4 or equivalent NVQ level 4 qualification
* Comply with the Health, Safety and Environmental Policies
* Leadership skills, to lead, support and guide groups of technicians and engineers
* You will be someone who is self-aware, resilient, optimistic and open to change.
* To succeed at the role you must show moral, courage, openness and honesty in all dealings.
Desirable skills:
5 years automotive Experience.
Background in a first or second tier Automotive environment
Negotiation skills
Ability to present data effectively
Problem-solving skills
Analytical skills
Understanding of cost and financial impacts
Ability to work in a diverse and dynamic environment
Exercise substantial initiative/judgement in work methods and interpreting goals
Work independently and is reviewed infrequently with minimal supervision
Self-supervising within the guidance and expectations of divisional management
Package:
£48,000 – £54,000 salary
Pension Scheme
25 Days Annual Leave
Eligible for the company share option scheme.
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