Quality Engineer - Manufacturing

Portsmouth £42,000 - £47,000 - plus 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and benefits scheme. Please note that the working pattern is 8.00am - 4.00pm.

About the Role

As part of your key responsibilities you'll:

• Develop processes to ensure incoming materials meet required quality standards.
• Identify and raise quality issues to ensure zero impact to the customer.
• Support new product introductions to ensure the robustness of product builds.
• Work in a team environment to develop and implement best practices that emphasise defect prevention, reduction in variation and waste, and provide continuous improvements for products, processes, and resources.
• Review and manage the customer specific requirements in specifications, CAD data and drawings, ensuring they are correctly applied and integrated into the manufacturing processes via core tools such as PFMEA and Control Plans.
• Co-ordinate measurement activity for customer submissions such as ISIR, Capability Studies and MSA.
• Support pre-production trials to validate a production process with a high quality output.
• QMS interaction (NCR, concessions, change management, audit etc.).
• Ensuring problem solving tasks are completed to IATF & AS requirements, ensuring efficient and robust closure and employing Unipart Way problem solving methodologies.
• Ensuring Process and Product audits are being completed and acted upon in line with the annual audit plan.

About You

We'd love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you'd be able to perform well in this role!

• Experience in quality engineering within the automotive or manufacturing sector with tools such as PPAP, APQP, FMEA, SPC, MSA, and with QMS.
• Familiarity with IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 quality standards, AS9100 experience.
• Proven track record in managing supplier quality issues and customer complaints - 8D, 5 Whys, Ishikawa diagrams.
• Experience with auditing (internal and external), root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive action processes.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings (GD&T knowledge preferred).
• Competency in statistical analysis and use of statistical software (e.g., Minitab, JMP).
• Understanding of metrology and hands-on experience with measurement tools (CMM, calipers, micrometers, etc.).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact with teams, suppliers, and customers.
• Proactive, self-motivated, resilient, adaptable, and capable of working independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

About Unipart

We are a supply chain performance improvement partner. We Design, Make, Move, and Improve components in our customers' supply chains, keeping their operations and assets moving and working better, for longer. Through our commitment to continuously driving operational efficiencies, we improve performance - saving time, cost, and carbon. Our ambition is to be the driving force behind efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We believe that a great workplace is one where you can bring your whole self to work. Our recruitment process is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and based entirely on merit. We define merit through a combination of technical skills and the core behaviours that help our people thrive at Unipart. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background or circumstances. We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity that exceeds our statutory obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and subsequent legislation. Whether it's your age, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, family status, or any other characteristic that makes you you - it is your talent and potential that we value most.

Adjustments for you:

We want you to perform at your best. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We are here to support you.