Quality Engineer in Stourbridge, West Midlands

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Location: Stourbridge

Shift Patterns: Monday - Friday 40-hour week starts from 05:00am

Brief Description of Job Duties

• Generating, controlling, monitoring, reporting, and reviewing quality data to identify and communicate trends.
• Head RCA teams in the identification and resolution of quality issues and concerns raised, using Quality tools such as 5 whys, 8D and corrective action tracking tools.
• Maintain communication of internal and external rejects to stakeholders
• Implementing process controls.
• Recording and control of internal and external rejects and their disposition.
• Conducting scrap and customer return reviews.
• of quality documents such as quality alerts/sop etc.
• Upkeep of quality data and reporting to the business.
• Physical measurement, using basic inspection equipment such as verniers, height gauges etc.
• Audit processes across the business to ensure compliance to the process.
• Inputting data and compliance documentation into QMS.
• Drive targeted improvement to eliminate non-conformances.
• Controlling and tracking the effectiveness of improvements and corrective actions
• Identifying product, process, and manufacturing improvements.
• Reducing variability in casting quality through active pursuit of improvements to our quality system and process controls.
• Devise procedures to inspect and report quality issues and concerns.
• Manage Standard work documentation.
• Develop documentation to support the product development.
• Participate in customer audit visits and assessments.

Requirements

• Proven technical foundry knowledge associated with production processes, foundry capabilities and controls for high integrity ductile iron.
• Ability to facilitate Lean / Root cause analysis projects.
• ITAF and ISO Awareness.