Quality Engineer

Position: Quality Engineer
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Salary: £40K
Nicholas Associates has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Quality Engineer, to join an innovative & growing client in the Sheffield area.
Your key areas of responsibility will include:

Supporting and maintaining the Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with applicable customer, regulatory, and industry requirements.
Investigating internal and external quality concerns, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions to prevent recurrence.
Managing non-conformances and corrective and preventive actions, including containment, root cause analysis, implementation, and verification of effectiveness.
Completing quality plans as required, ensuring product and process quality requirements are clearly defined, controlled, and maintained.
Supporting New Product Introduction activities, including APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, and the implementation of customer-specific quality requirements.
Working closely with production, engineering, customers, and suppliers to resolve quality issues, improve processes, and promote continual improvement.
Conducting process, product, and layered process audits, supporting customer and third-party audits as required.
Monitoring and reporting quality KPIs, analyse trends, identify areas for improvement, and supporting the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives.
Supporting the management of customer complaints, non-conforming products, and containment activities to ensure timely and effective resolution.
Reviewing, preparing, and maintaining quality documentation, inspection standards, work instructions, document packages, product release documentation, and despatch notes.
Supporting supplier quality activities and supplier management, including monitoring supplier performance, addressing quality issues, and ensuring compliance with customer and industry standards.
Conducting and supporting risk assessments to identify potential product and process risks and ensuring appropriate controls are implemented.
Maintaining standards control to ensure that applicable quality standards, specifications, procedures, and customer requirements are understood and consistently applied.
Managing calibration activities and tooling requirements, ensuring inspection and measurement equipment is suitable, accurate, appropriately maintained, and within its required calibration period.
Undertaking appropriate training on quality requirements, procedures, standards, and customer-specific requirements to maintain and develop professional competence.
Interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, and CAD models to support the inspection, manufacture, release, and quality assurance of products and processes.Previous experience within the aerospace or automotive sectors, would be beneficial.

About Us

We are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive community. In line with our Diversity and Inclusion policy, we welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. As a Disability Confident Employer, and part of the Nicholas Associates Group, we are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, and we're happy to discuss flexible working options.

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