The Lee Company | Quality Engineer

At LEE Ventus, our world-class micropump technology delivers precision, performance, and silent operation – all in a tiny package. We have hundreds of new customers evaluating our technology and our order book is growing fast. Following our acquisition by The Lee Company, our focus is on scaling our manufacturing operation to meet rapidly growing demand.

Our micropumps enable truly cutting-edge innovation across the medical, life science, environmental and industrial sectors. They’re already used in an extraordinary range of inventions – such as a breathalyser that will test for cancer, a novel treatment for sleep apnoea, and a hospital-grade vital signs monitor. The potential for our technology is huge. So, your work will have a genuine and meaningful impact.

The Role

As part of LEE Ventus’ Quality team, this is an opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of a high-value manufacturing business. You will be responsible for coordinating investigations and improvements in conjunction with the Production and Manufacturing Engineering teams. You will ensure that we control and monitor quality, tracking any issues and driving continual improvement in our activities.

Working within the Quality team you will play an integral role for ensuring product quality, and act as a key point of contact for manufacturing issues. You will have responsibilities in supplier quality assurance, monitoring supplier performance, conducting supplier evaluations and facilitating supplier part approvals.

You will take an active role in maintaining our document management system including the creation and update of process and procedure documentation. As our business continues to grow you will contribute to ongoing efforts to improve and develop our QMS.

LEE Ventus is a young business. Whilst our QMS is well established and certificated, it (like us) is evolving fast. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment. You will have a keen attention to detail and process, but also be able to work flexibly and pragmatically. You will be comfortable as part of a small, dynamic team, also demonstrating self-motivation and the ability to work independently when required. We value individuals who are prepared to roll up their sleeves and get the job done.

Requirements

Your skills and experience should include:

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
• 2+ years’ experience in a quality engineering role within a manufacturing environment
• Proven experience working with quality tools e.g. PPAP, FMEA, CAPA, continual improvement, problem solving, 5S, Risk Assessment, etc.
• Experience operating within an ISO 9001 (or similar) certified QMS
• Experience conducting supplier audits and evaluations (both on site and remote)
• Excellent technical writing skills and well versed in drafting formal quality documentation (e.g. SOPs)
• A meticulous approach to work with a strong eye for detail
• The ability to promote a Quality culture throughout the business

It would be advantageous, but not required, to have:

• Experience with a document management system or eQMS
• Experience using ERP systems
• Knowledge of injection moulding and PCB assembly processes

Benefits

LEE Ventus operates from green surroundings on Melbourn Science Park, 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our working culture encourages shared ideas and collaboration whilst providing you with the freedom to do your best work. We offer employee benefits including 21 days’ holiday accruing 1 day per year up to 25 days, plus:

• A bonus scheme and a separate profit-sharing scheme
• Employer pension contribution of 12% of pensionable pay
• Private medical insurance (incl. dependants)
• Life insurance up to 6 times salary
• Enhanced family-friendly maternity and paternity leave
• Free lunch at our excellent on-site restaurant
• All-day fresh fruit, snacks and hot and cold drinks

So, if you’re ready to make a big impact with a breakthrough state-of-the-art technology, apply now. Every application will be reviewed and will receive a response.

Inclusion & Diversity

Our business revolves around collaborating with one another to tackle genuinely hard problems. Equality and diversity in the workplace are some of the most challenging problems facing society. We can’t profess to be perfect in this regard or to have all the answers. But we continuously strive to do better, and we fundamentally believe in the power and importance of diversity – both for our community and for the overall success of our business.

We therefore encourage applications from all individuals. Whatever your background, whatever your identity, we would love to hear from you.