Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer  Somerset  £45,000 + Excellent Benefits + 9 Day Fortnight  The Company  We are looking to speak with aspirational candidates who have a background in leadership within a stores, inventory or materials management environment who want to join a business who can offer fast tracked career development into senior management positions.  Our client is a specialist Automotive supplier working in partnership with OEM’s to provide high-quality re-manufactured parts. After being established over 70 years ago they have been through modernisation in recent decades and are seeing huge year on year growth as they continue strengthening their relationship with one of the leading Automotive manufactures in the UK.  The company employs 70+ staff and has a £multi-million turnover. Over recent years, with a new Health, Safety & Quality Manager at the helm they have made huge inroads in creating a more effective and robust quality department and now require a Senior Quality Engineer to continue with this work.    The Role  The Senior Quality Engineer will work alongside the Health, Safety & Quality Manager and the other members of the team to reduce repeat mistakes and identify areas of repeatable improvement.   Key daily responsibilities will include;  Raising the Right First Time percentage rate for completed assemblied – after each product is assembled, if it results in failure at testing, problem solving will be carried out alongside root cause analysis on the failures to understand them and identify corrective measures for future assemblies   Collecting data over a period of time to identify trends, continually reviewing after corrective measures put in place to ensure trends in right direction . Reviewing and enhancing SOPs – Auditing and reviewing existing SOP’s to ensure they are enforced and identifying where they are lacking, to build revisions and improvements into the QMS system.  Maintaining accreditations in place  Hosting external audits – taking any non-conformances from these and running 8D’s to identify solutions   Supporting APQP processes for new supplier components  The Candidate  To be successful in your application for this Senior Quality Engineer role you will need;  Previous experience working as a Quality/Senior Quality Engineer within an engineering/manufacturing environment  Someone practically minded – role will be 50% office based and the rest of the time problem solving with people on the shop floor. Significant problem solving experience  Root cause analysis & 8D experience   Ability to work alone and provide support at a Senior level  The Benefits  For this Senior Quality Engineer, the following benefits are on offer:  £45,000 basic salary  A nine day fortnight – the business works Monday – Thursday every other week.  The opportunity to work for an MD who truly values excellent leadership  Excellent benefits   If you are interested in applying for this Senior Quality Engineer role please send your CV to Kristi Hopwood at   ATA Recruitment specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and general Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis – for more opportunities like this one, visit our website.   By applying you accept the terms of our Privacy Notice which can be found on our website.  ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation