Senior Quality Engineer in Weston-super-Mare

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 that can offer fast-tracked career development into senior management positions. Our client is a specialist Automotive supplier working in partnership with OEMs 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 manufacturers 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 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 FRC (First Run Capability) – 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 are in the right direction.
• Reviewing and enhancing SOPs – auditing and reviewing existing SOPs to ensure they are enforced and identifying where they are lacking, to build revisions and improvements into the QMS system.
• Maintaining accreditations.
• Hosting external audits – taking any non-conformances from these and running 8Ds to identify solutions.
• Supporting APQP processes for new supplier components.

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.
• Supporting Quality qualification would be advantageous though not crucial.
• Someone practically minded – role will be 50/50% office/shop floor based – previous hands-on experience working with various tools including CMM/Vernier Callipers would be highly advantageous.
• Significant problem-solving experience.
• Root cause analysis & 8D experience.
• Ability to work alone and provide support at a Senior level.

For this Senior Quality Engineer, the following benefits are on offer:

• £40,000 – 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, which specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and general Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis.

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