At a Glance
- Tasks: Enhance supplier quality and drive process improvements in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
- Company: Join a vibrant and successful business in Didcot with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, remote work, private healthcare, and 25 days holiday.
- Other info: Participate in fun team events and enjoy a supportive work environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on supplier relationships and quality processes while growing your career.
- Qualifications: Experience in quality engineering and knowledge of ISO 9001 and quality analysis tools.
If you’re a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, or a Supplier Quality Engineer looking for more responsibility and your next career move, then this is for you! Join our client, a vibrant, growing, established, secure and successful business in Didcot as a Supplier Quality Engineer. Reporting to the Head of Production and Manufacturing, you'll support their business by identifying process improvement and control opportunities within their supply chain.
You'll be building supplier relationships for effective working practices, ensuring that purchase order requirements can be met and maintained. You'll monitor, maintain and improve supplier performance through working with KPI metric data, and will work with suppliers to develop corrective action plans to address any process failings including the use of quality tools (e.g. 5 Why, 8D etc.).
Role Highlights:
- Supplier Quality Management and Supplier process improvement.
- Evaluate and process reports from suppliers in line with ISO9001.
- Set and maintain PO notes and incoming inspection criteria on all purchased goods.
- Support goods inwards and purchasing.
- Collect and evaluate supplier quality data.
- Work with supplier directly to create, manage and close corrective action plans, addressing process failures.
- Process and product audits within the supply chain to address failures and perform regular timescale related audits.
- Perform source inspections on supplier sites when necessary.
- Review and update Corrective Action Reports (CAR).
- Visit suppliers and assist in supplier audits.
- Lead the improvement of supplier relationships and quality processes, ensure component compliance, and drive corrective actions.
- Champion root cause analysis, manage non-conformance reporting, and develop supplier processes to prevent recurrence and reduce costs.
What we are looking for:
- Experience of Quality Engineering within a manufacturing environment.
- ISO 9001.
- Ability to use measuring equipment to 0.01mm correctly.
- Working knowledge of quality analysis tools such as 8D, PFMEA etc.
- Knowledge of mechanical components.
- Strong problem solving skills with the ability to facilitate problem solving with production staff.
- Experience in developing vendor quality measures.
- Any internal audit experience to ISO9001, 8D, Lead, Six Sigma with experience of process capability analysis and process improvement is preferred but not essential to apply.
What’s on offer:
- Salary: £45,000 to £50,000.
- 1 day per week working from home.
- Share options.
- Private healthcare via Bupa with 24/7 medical helpline.
- Life insurance.
- Income protection.
- Pension.
- Employee Assistance Programme - mental wellbeing, financial and legal advice/support.
- 25 days holiday per year.
- Subsidised meals.
- Fun team events on and offsite, snacks of all kinds in the office.
Interested? Apply now.
Supplier Quality Engineer in Didcot employer: Melbreck Technical Recruitment
Join a vibrant and growing company in Didcot that prioritises employee well-being and professional development. With a strong focus on continuous improvement, you will have the opportunity to enhance your skills while enjoying benefits such as private healthcare, share options, and a supportive work culture that values teamwork and innovation. This role not only offers competitive pay but also a chance to make a meaningful impact within the supply chain.
Contact Details:
Melbreck Technical Recruitment Recruitment Team
