At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and mentor quality teams while ensuring top-notch production standards.
- Company: Join a global leader in automotive manufacturing with exciting new projects.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, generous holiday, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a focus on continuous improvement and training.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the automotive industry with innovative quality solutions.
- Qualifications: Experience in quality control within automotive manufacturing and strong problem-solving skills.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 45000 £ per year.
Exciting opportunity for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a global manufacturing business that has won significant new programmes with automotive OEM customers.
This is an interesting and varied responsibility to work for a business that designs and manufactures components and assemblies for a wide range of automotive OEM customers, so this role affords the opportunity to work on customer projects from concept through to series production.
Duties:- Lead, coach, and mentor Shift Quality Technicians and Shift Quality Auditors in setting daily priorities and being a point of contact on shift.
- Support PPAP and launch of all programs, engineering changes.
- Coordinate capability studies and gauge validation (Measurement System Analysis).
- Review CAD drawings and understand the application requirements in conjunction with customer standards and dimensional reports.
- Update Process Documentation – Standardised Work Instructions, Process Quality Records, Quality Alerts etc.; Escalate all quality concerns.
- Perform Quality process audits.
- Support the escalation, containment and analysis on internal and customer quality issues.
- Applications are sought from experienced Quality Engineers or Quality Technicians with significant knowledge of production quality control gained within automotive tier 1 or OEM manufacturing.
- Apprentice trained, HNC or Degree in an engineering or technical discipline.
- Ability to liaise with and manage OEM customer and supplier expectations.
- Structured problem‑solving skills – 8D, 5Y, A3, PPS.
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing methods and continuous improvement techniques.
- Familiar with volume manufacturing processes.
- Internal auditor experience – IATF 16949 / ISO 9001 desirable.
- Proven ability to use quality tools such as PPAP, Control Plans, MSA and PFMEA.
- Able to work in a 3‑shift pattern (6‑2; 2‑10; 10‑6).
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Quality professional to join a world‑class manufacturing business that is both winning and quoting for significant new business supplying OEM customers throughout Europe. In return, our client is offering a competitive salary and benefits package including contributory pension scheme, life assurance, onsite car parking, 35 days holiday, employee discount schemes and cycle‑to‑work scheme. The company also has a strong track record of offering training and career development opportunities.
