Derby | Senior Quality Engineer
We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join our team at our Derby site.
39 Hours: Monday – Thursday: 8.00am - 16.45pm / Friday 8.00am - 12.30pm
Salary💷 £47,500 per annum
Benefits
- Company pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave + 8 statutory holidays, Christmas shut down
- BUPA Health care
- Free onsite parking
- Death in Service benefit
- Long Service awards
Essential:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience within the Aerospace Industry, AS9100 requirements & NADCAP
- Experience in lean tools and practical problem solving such as 8D, Kaizen processes
- High attention to detail, good problem solver and strong communication skills
- In-depth understanding of engineering/technical documentation and specifications
- A natural leader, who can motivate and lead with excellent interpersonal skill
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills as this is a customer faced role
Knowledge and Experience:
- Previous Internal auditing experience advantageous
- Experience in a quality control environment preferred
- First Article Inspection Report experience
- Experience of Machining, Fabrications and Treatments
- Chemical and special processes knowledge
- New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP + PPAP Awareness
- Ability to resolve issues logically and methodically using proven methods
- Self-motivated with a desire to learn
Seniority Requirements:
- A key part of this role will be interacting and communicating with shop floor operators and management, it is essential you can communicate in a clear and concise manner
- Setting staff expectation in line with department and company objectives
- Ability to prioritise work based on criticality ensuring timescales are met
- Development, coaching & Support of others
- Manage and lead a team to achieve the set expectations
- Manage all quality-related issues identified during audits, internal or external
- Support on root cause investigation on product NCRs
- Monitor and report on quality-related key performance indicators including completed internal and externa audits, along with any findings. Outstanding actions relating to audits and improvement activities.
- Communicate throughout the shop floor, with peers and management
- Carry out team supervision, development reviews & annual resource reviews
- Confident and effective verbal and written communication and presentation skills
Purpose of role and key accountabilities:
To provide Quality support for both existing and new business opportunities and to develop the Right First-Time philosophy required to become a leading supplier of quality components to the aerospace industry.
- * Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process, in line with business standards and customer requirements
- * Check and verify the compliance of components produced at all stages within business
- * Identify reoccurring quality issues and communicate them to the chief inspector along with recommendations
- * Assist in the 5 Why, Non-conformance procedures, RCCA & CAPA quality procedures and produce root cause analysis of product failures
- * Represent the quality function at team meetings
- * Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit product and processes
- * To conduct product and procedure audits in line with the audit schedule
- * Lead and support external audits e.g. NADCAP
- * To work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required.
- * To support, develop, maintain and improve the company’s quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system
- * To conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and techniques to ensure that the manufacturing processes meet customer requirement
- * Activities will focus on the internal Quality SQCDP requirements, including closing out actions and reporting against the company requirements
- * Gardner’s key objective is to ensure Right First Time, Every time! Which is achieved by effective allocation, and any issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner
The employee must also strive to support the elements of the SQCDP framework of the wider Gardner business;
- Safety: work in line with all accredited company safety standards in order to provide a safe working environment for all
- Quality: support the quality accreditations across the business to ensure the delivery of a ‘right first time’ performance
- Cost: support the continuous improvements in cost reduction activities across the company in order to deliver increased profitability and value for money to our customers and stakeholders
- Delivery: drive improvement in delivery performance to continually exceed customer expectations and targets
- People: support organisational capability and influence cultural change by embracing diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and community
NOTE: Due to the nature of this role and the security requirements linked to projects with the UK Ministry of Defence, applicants must be eligible for UK Security Clearance
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