Quality Engineer in Sussex

A prestige automotive manufacturer has an immediate requirement for an experienced Quality Engineer, to ensure compliance to international standards and solve complex quality issues.

Key Accountabilities

• Interpreting international and group standards to ensure new product introduced is compliant to both legal and safety requirements.
• Ensuring the correct assessment of significant and critical characteristics through the application of FMEA to ensure the correct preventative and detection methods are implemented.
• Utilising support network (quality specialist & technicians) assigned to the same content and steering them tasks to aid the overall success of the module development.
• Regular status reporting of progress to target in management circles and to wider project circles when required.
• Ensuring problem-solving activities are performed correctly and promptly to maintain solution target dates.
• Overall responsible for assigned project content to ensure relevant quality activities are completed and project milestones are maintained.
• Working with multiple stakeholders to aid the ongoing development of concepts through early-stage design, hardware events and pre-series build phases.
• To ensure relevant aspects of APQP are completed as per project requirements.
• Monitoring content KPIs and steering cross-functional stakeholders to develop, maintain and improve quality output of the new model production process.
• Identifying and escalating critical path topics in a timely fashion to the management team.

Impact on innovations and changes

• Leading problem-solving activities.
• Defining and validating solutions in problem solving activities.
• Input & feedback to aid the improvement of development & manufacturing processes.
• Feedback to engineering teams to ensure upcoming products have lessons learned applied.
• Identifying improvement opportunities and implementing new/updated internal processes.
• Able to communicate a plan visually including clear activities and milestones (upstream and downstream).
• Able to transfer information from technical documents e.g. 2D drawing, ISO standards, into a clear definition of requirements to aid jig/fixture purchase and sign-off.

Qualifications & Experience

• HNC/HND in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Quality Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Technical knowledge and understanding of defects and customer relevance, including defect capturing methods.
• Comprehensive PC skills (Office, SharePoint, IPS-Q).
• Experience in automotive core tools (APQP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, PPAP).
• Expert knowledge and working experience of structured problem-solving methods (Fishbone, 5Y, DMAIC etc.).
• Knowledge in how to read gap plans / drawings / inspection instructions.
• Fluent English is essential and German would be an advantage.
• Previous experience in manufacturing operations.
• Leading project teams and managing progress against plan.

Additional Skills

• Experience & knowledge of measurement tools (DTI, inspection gauges) and gathering data.
• An understanding of lean manufacturing principles.
• Working knowledge of 7 basic tools of quality.

Interested, please contact Graeme at Vibe Recruit on 07971 309403 or apply immediately!