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Senior Quality Engineer

Job Posted: 2 days ago

Salary: £ 40,000 - 45,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Weston-super-Mare

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Senior Quality Engineer

Somerset

£40,000 - 45,000 + Excellent Benefits + 9 Day Fortnight

The Company

We are looking to speak with aspirational candidates who have a background in leadership within a stores, inventory or materials management environment who want to join a business who can offer fast tracked career development into senior management positions.

Our client is a specialist Automotive supplier working in partnership with OEM’s to provide high-quality re-manufactured parts. After being established over 70 years ago they have been through modernisation in recent decades and are seeing huge year on year growth as they continue strengthening their relationship with one of the leading Automotive manufactures in the UK.

The company employs 70+  staff and has a £multi-million turnover. Over recent years, with a new Health, Safety & Quality Manager at the helm they have made huge inroads in creating a more effective and robust quality department and now require a Senior Quality Engineer to continue with this work. 

The Role

The Senior Quality Engineer will work alongside the Health, Safety & Quality Manager and the other members of the team to reduce repeat mistakes and identify areas of repeatable improvement.

Key daily responsibilities will include;

Raising the FRC (First Run Capability) – after each product is assembled, if it results in failure at testing, problem solving will be carried out alongside root cause analysis on the failures to understand them and identify corrective measures for future assemblies

Collecting data over a period of time to identify trends, continually reviewing after corrective measures put in place to ensure trends in right direction

Reviewing and enhancing SOPs – Auditing and reviewing existing SOP’s to ensure they are enforced AND identifying where they are lacking, to build revisions and improvements into the QMS system.

Maintaining accreditations

Hosting external audits – taking any non-conformances from these and running 8D’s to identify solutions

Supporting APQP processes for new supplier components

The Candidate

To be successful in your application for this Senior Quality Engineer role you will need;

Previous experience working as a Quality/Senior Quality Engineer within an engineering/manufacturing environment
Supporting Quality qualification would be advantageous though not crucial
Someone practically minded – role will be 50/50% office/shopfloor based – previous hand-on experience working with various tools including CMM/Vernier Callipers would be highly advantageous
 Significant problem solving experience
Root cause analysis & 8D experience
Ability to work alone and provide support at a Senior level

The Benefits

For this Senior Quality Engineer, the following benefits are on offer:

£40,000 – 45,000 basic salary
A nine day fortnight – the business works Monday – Thursday every other week.
The opportunity to work for an MD who truly values excellent leadership
Excellent benefits
If you are interested in applying for this Senior Quality Engineer role please send your CV to Kristi Hopwood at 

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