Quality Engineer #RO #UK in Newport

Company: CAF Rolling Stock UK

Location: NEWPORT, GB

Efficiency in process execution, quality, procurement, supply chain management, manufacturing, testing, and maintenance are key activities to ensure customer satisfaction and the success of every project. Join our team to contribute to these critical areas and help us achieve excellence in all that we do.

Mission of the position

Ensure that all external suppliers consistently deliver materials that meet our quality and engineering standards. This role manages the full supplier lifecycle, from initial selection and auditing to performance monitoring, with a specific focus on implementing the Inspection and Test Plan for incoming goods for new projects, as well as performing FAIs (first article inspections) of key/safety-critical products at CAF or suppliers’ sites.

Functions and responsibilities

• Conduct technical and quality system audits on potential new or current suppliers to assess their capabilities/risk level or identify necessary improvements.
• Drive the quality planning process using methodologies such as APQP, PPAP and FAI, to ensure suppliers can produce parts to specification prior to mass production.
• Monitor and analyse supplier quality performance metrics, implementing action plans when required, focusing on continuous improvement.
• Lead suppliers in conducting root cause analysis for quality failures using problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagram).
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings/workflows to review and approve supplier concession requests, retrofitting the necessary actions to the SQA team and/or other departments.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings/workflows to review technical suppliers' answers and reports to an NC, retrofitting the necessary information to the original NC report and the people involved.
• Monitor and approve on-site supplier visits to implement modifications and/or corrective actions.
• Onboard and train suppliers on company-specific quality protocols and quality management tools.

Supports the Supplier Quality Manager in ensuring that the customer’s or other requirements are fulfilled.

Training required

• Engineering Degree Qualified
• ISO 9001 or IRIS Auditor Qualification (Internal or Lead Auditor)
• Lean Manufacturing Methodologies
• Level 2 Welding Inspector – CSWIP 3.1 or equivalent
• Level 2 Paint/Coating Inspector – ICorr or equivalent

Required professional experience

Technical and/or practical knowledge valued.

It is our belief that each employee contributes directly to the growth and success of our company. As a global team with different expertise, ways of thinking, and varied backgrounds, we want each employee to feel that they belong, are included, and can thrive.

As a socially responsible company, we build the principles of Diversity and Inclusion into our practices, and encourage equality from different sources to ensure an open working environment where mutual respect and equal opportunities prevail. We are an equal opportunity employer. We have diverse, multicultural, committed and qualified talent that contributes on a daily basis to the creation of sustainable value. All qualified applications are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by local law.