Quality Technician

Coven Heath Source: WhatJobs

£35,000–£35,000

Job title: Quality Technician

Location: Wolverhampton
Salary: £30,436 basic, rising to approximately £35,000 with 15% shift allowance
Hours: 36.5 hours per week, rotating 3 shift pattern. (0600:1400, 1400:2200, 2200:0600 or 05:30-13:30, 13:30-21:30, 21:30-05:30 with early finish on a Friday)
Job type: Permanent

Quality Technician, Wolverhampton, up to £35,000 with shift allowance

Brellis Recruitment is supporting a leading automotive manufacturer with the recruitment of two Quality Technicians to join their site in Wolverhampton. This is a hands on quality role on the shop floor, ideal for someone with a manufacturing or engineering background who wants a stable career in a quality function.

What's on offer

£30,436 basic salary (£16.04 per hour)
15% shift allowance on top, taking earnings to approximately £35,000
36.5 hours per week
Rotating 3 shift pattern
Permanent position with a clear route to progress to a more senior Technician level

The role
As Quality Technician you will be responsible for the quality assurance of customer product, reporting to the Quality Engineer. You will be the first line of defence on the shop floor, making sure product leaving the site meets customer requirements.

Carry out regular product and process audits, feeding back findings and taking appropriate action
Make sure shift operators follow the quality elements of the Standard Operating Procedures
Identify product and process non-conformances and suggest improvements
Visually inspect and check product against defect catalogues and gauge instructions, including weld inspection
Carry out testing of product, including torque, push out and leak tests, and assist with laboratory testing
Understand and interpret metrology reports
Implement and close temporary containment activities, and sentence parts held in intervention bins
Raise quality alerts and supplier corrective action requests (SCARs)
Communicate quality data to the manufacturing teams and help drive improvements
Support team based problem solving using structured techniques
Support the Quality Engineers in resolving customer and internal concerns
Deliver team briefs to individuals and small groups

About you

Ideally educated to a ONC level in an engineering related discipline, and willing to progress to HNC (a recognised apprenticeship is ideal)
Experience in a quality function within a fast moving manufacturing environment, ideally metal forming or fabrication
Good working knowledge of basic quality tools and techniques, such as Ishikawa, Pareto charts, histograms and scatter diagrams
Comfortable with numerical data, with a good eye for fault finding and problem solving
Confident, self motivated and proactive, with good interpersonal and organisational skills
Able to cope with the pressures of a demanding manufacturing environment and willing to work a rotating 3 shift pattern

If you are a Quality Technician, Quality Inspector or Quality Operative looking for your next move, or an engineer wanting to step into quality, we would like to hear from you.

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