The Role: Quality Engineer
Location: Northampton
Salary: £45k
Sector: Automotive
Your Mission:
You will provide Quality Engineering support to the company’s Quality, Production and Engineering functions whilst also being part of the customer interface. To assume responsibility for quality aspects of new products throughout development, and to product launch phase and thereafter provide support for the resolution of internal and external concerns. To aid the company in continually improving quality standards and to ensure that all Customers’ quality requirements and company accreditation requirements are met.
The Role:
- Ownership of internal quality issues and resolution with known Quality tools, in a timely fashion.
- Data collection, collation, and development of improvement activities.
- Definition of inspection criteria.
- Lineside quality improvement activities such as defect disposition analysis, scrap and rework analysis, as well as general improvement projects.
- Data driven improvement activities in response to internal quality gate findings including conducting root cause analysis, countermeasure implementation and auditing.
- Management of internal quality KPIs and metrics – development of improvement plans.
- Conducting internal quarantine and scrap reviews.
- Assisting in external Quality activities where needed (significant overlap with customer impact issues).
- Planning and Managing APQP and PPAP activities, including the PPAP tracker.
- Raising and management of concessions and the concession system.
- Process and Product Auditing and improvement activities.
- Consider the health and safety, environmental and energy impact of all activities.
- Support the Company’s compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, following policy and best practices.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
- Experience in aluminium CNC machining.
- Working knowledge of GD&T.
- Basic knowledge of Aluminium casting processes.
- Strong Practical problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated experience in automotive PPAPs / APQP.
- Experience of using Quality tools (8D, 5Why, Ishikawa, etc.)
- Experience in a customer-facing role.
- Some experience of Process Audits.
- Good time management.
- Knowledge of visual management techniques.
- Experience of manufacturing metrology equipment including CMMs.
- Experience in the use of handheld gauging equipment.
- Working understanding of statistical analysis tools such as Gauge R&Rs, Capability analyses and comparison t