Quality Engineer

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Location: Stourbridge

Pay Rates: £36,000

Shift Patterns: Monday - Friday 40-hour week starts from 05:00am

We are recruiting for a senior quality inspector/quality engineer to join a growing business in Stourbridge. This position will be articulating a culture of quality and implementing the necessary processes and systems to support quality improvement. Promote continual improvement and process excellence through a 'quality first culture.'

Brief Description of Job Duties

• Generating, controlling, monitoring, reporting and reviewing quality data to identify and communicate trends.
• Head RCA teams in the identification and resolution of quality issues and concerns raised, using Quality tools such as 5 whys, 8D and corrective action tracking tools.
• Maintain communication of internal and external rejects to stakeholders
• implementing process controls.
• Recording and control of internal and external rejects and their disposition.
• Conducting scrap and customer return reviews.
• Generation of quality documents such as quality alerts/sop etc.
• Upkeep of quality data and reporting to the business.
• Physical measurement, using basic inspection equipment such as verniers, height gauges etc.
• Audit processes across the business to ensure compliance to process.
• Inputting data and compliance documentation into QMS.
• Drive targeted improvement to eliminate non-conformances.
• Controlling and tracking the effectiveness of improvements and corrective actions
• Identifying product, process, and manufacturing improvements.
• Reducing variability in casting quality through active pursuit of improvements to our quality system and process controls.
• Devise procedures to inspect and report quality issues and concerns.
• Manage Standard work documentation (SOP) One point lesson. (OPL)
• Develop documentation to support the product development.
• Participate in customer audit visits and assessments.

Requirements

• Proven technical foundry knowledge associated with production processes, foundry capabilities and controls for high integrity ductile iron.
• Ability to facilitate Lean / Root cause analysis projects.
• ITAF and ISO Awareness.

To be considered for this permanent vacancy as a Quality Engineer please click "Apply" to be considered or please call 01922 895 635 for more information.

Oliver Rae is an Established Recruitment Business with offices based in Walsall and Halesowen. We supply Temporary and Permanent Staffing to a range of sectors.