Quality Engineer in Derby, Normanton

We are looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join our manufacturing team at our Derby site.

Working Hours:

• Monday – Thursday: 8am to 4.45pm
• Friday - 8am to 12.30pm

Salary: £43,680 per annum

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Company pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave + 8 statutory holidays, Christmas shut down
• BUPA Health care
• Free onsite parking
• Death in Service benefit
• Long Service awards

Purpose of role and accountabilities:

• Maintain and improve the quality management systems, processes and related approvals.
• Support, develop and improve the relationship with our quality contacts within our customer and supplier base.
• Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit our products and manufacturing processes.
• Work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required.
• Support, develop, maintain and improve the company’s quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system.
• Support and lead on customer and supplier audits and ensure that all customer requirements are satisfied.
• Develop and support the systems and co-ordinate the activities required for approvals/regulation by external bodies.
• Support calibration activity of all instruments on a regular basis.
• Liaise with customers on any customer quality concerns and take the necessary steps to resolve such concerns.
• Conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and techniques to ensure that the manufacturing processes meet customer requirements.
• Provide technical support for the processes carried out in the Treatments facility.
• Manage and develop the members of the ILC team to ensure the appropriate level of skills and knowledge exist to support the ongoing requirements of the business.
• Support the development of a culture of continuous improvement within the organisation.
• Work in conjunction with the site management team, identifying opportunities to implement best practice.
• Liaise with manufacturing function to provide support for problem resolution as required.
• Support cost reduction initiatives.
• Work to ISO 5001/9001 standards.

Core skills/attributes needed:

• Qualified Engineer.
• Previous Internal auditing experience.
• Experience in lean tools such as 8D, Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) process.
• Experience in customer/supplier facing for quality related products/issues.
• Chemical and special processes knowledge.
• Ideally Aerospace manufacturing background, ideally specific NADCAP experience.
• New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP + PPAP Awareness.
• Practical Problem-Solving skills.
• Strong leadership and communication skills covering all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent IT Skills.

The employee must also strive to support the elements of the SQCDP framework of the wider Gardner business:

• Safety: work in line with all accredited company safety standards to provide a safe working environment for all.
• Quality: support the quality accreditations across the business to ensure delivery of a ‘right first time’ performance.
• Cost: support the continuous improvements in cost reduction activities across the company to deliver increased profitability and value for money to our customers and stakeholders.
• Delivery: drive improvement in delivery performance to continually exceed customer expectations and targets.
• People: support organizational capability and influence cultural change by embracing diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and community.

NOTE: Due to the nature of this role and the security requirements linked to projects with the UK Ministry of Defence, applicants must be eligible for UK Security Clearance.