At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive quality improvements and ensure compliance in electronics manufacturing.
- Company: Established electronics manufacturer with a focus on innovation and quality.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and the chance to influence quality standards.
- Other info: Join a diverse team committed to equality and professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on innovative electronic products and drive continuous improvement.
- Qualifications: Experience in quality engineering and knowledge of ISO standards required.
The predicted salary is between 38500 - 38500 £ per year.
Location: Milton Keynes
Are you an experienced Quality Engineer with a background in electronics manufacturing? Do you enjoy driving continuous improvement, maintaining robust quality systems and ensuring compliance with industry standards?
We are currently recruiting on behalf of an electronics manufacturer and due to continued growth, they are looking to appoint a Quality Engineer to support and continually improve their Integrated Management System, ensuring compliance with ISO standards.
The Role
As a Quality Engineer, you'll play a key role in maintaining and developing the company's Quality and Environmental Management Systems while supporting manufacturing, engineering and customer quality activities. Your responsibilities will include:
- Maintaining and continually improving the Integrated Quality & Environmental Management System in line with ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and IATF 16949.
- Planning, conducting and supporting internal audits, while acting as a key point of contact during external certification and customer audits.
- Investigating non-conformities, customer complaints and internal quality issues using structured root cause analysis and corrective action methodologies.
- Monitoring quality KPIs, analysing trends and driving continuous improvement initiatives across the business.
- Supporting New Product Introduction (NPI), verification and validation activities, engineering changes and customer-specific quality requirements.
- Working closely with manufacturing and engineering teams to improve processes, reduce defects and enhance product quality.
- Ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory and industry quality requirements.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Previous experience as a Quality Engineer or Quality Assurance Engineer within a manufacturing environment, ideally electronics or electrical manufacturing.
- A good understanding of ISO 9001, with experience of ISO 14001 and/or IATF 16949 being highly desirable.
- Experience planning, leading or supporting internal and external audits.
- Strong problem-solving skills using recognised quality methodologies such as 8D, Fishbone (Ishikawa), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and CAPA.
- Experience using quality tools such as FMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, 5S and Kaizen.
- Knowledge of ESD control standards and electronics workmanship standards such as IPC-A-610 would be advantageous.
- A Degree, HND or equivalent qualification in Electronics, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality or a related discipline.
- Lead Auditor qualification would be advantageous but is not essential.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established organisation where you'll have the opportunity to influence quality standards, drive continuous improvement and play an important role in supporting the development of innovative electronic products.
Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
