At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure product quality and drive continuous improvement in a modern manufacturing environment.
- Company: Established engineering manufacturer investing in people and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus, long-term career progression, and continuous training.
- Other info: Opportunity for growth in a supportive and collaborative workplace.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact on product quality and standards.
- Qualifications: Experience in quality inspection and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 39000 - 39000 £ per year.
Salary: £36,000 - £42,000 + 5% Bonus
The Opportunity
I'm currently working with an established engineering manufacturer that supplies specialist products to customers across a variety of industries throughout the UK and internationally. This is an excellent opportunity to join a modern manufacturing business that genuinely invests in its people, offering long-term career progression, continuous training and an excellent benefits package. Due to continued growth, they are seeking a Quality professional to support manufacturing operations, drive continuous improvement initiatives, investigate quality issues and ensure products consistently meet customer and industry standards.
The Role
Reporting into the Quality function, you'll play an important role in maintaining quality standards across manufacturing operations, supporting production teams and ensuring products meet customer specifications. Working closely with engineering and manufacturing departments, you'll investigate quality issues, carry out inspections and contribute to continuous improvement projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out incoming, in-process and final inspections.
- Ensure products meet customer and internal quality standards.
- Complete quality documentation and inspection records.
- Investigate product quality issues and non-conformances.
- Support root cause investigations and corrective actions.
- Assist with continuous improvement activities.
- Read and interpret engineering drawings.
- Work alongside manufacturing and engineering teams to improve quality performance.
- Support calibration and quality system activities.
- Ensure compliance with company quality procedures.
About You
We're looking for someone with experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment who has worked within Quality. Ideally you'll have experience with:
- Quality inspection
- Engineering drawings
- Precision measuring equipment
- Root cause analysis
- NCRs
- Quality documentation
- Microsoft Office
- ERP systems (desirable)
- Continuous improvement
- Strong communication skills
- Internal auditing experience
- ISO 9001 exposure
- CAPA activities
- Quality tools (8D, 5 Whys, Ishikawa, FMEA)
- Process improvement methodologies
Previous experience within manufacturing, engineering, automotive, medical devices, plastics or other technical industries would all be considered.
