Quality Engineer - Operations

Your experience of Quality Engineering will help you to ensure high levels of service and delivery of products to customers across the globe. As a Quality Engineer – Operations you will maintain certification to applicable standards including, but not limited to ISO9001. 

You will have the opportunity to work for a company passionate about inertial navigation and GNSS and how they can help their customers through integration of their technology. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.
 
About the job:
 
Our client currently requires a Quality Engineer - Operations to be responsible for monitoring,
testing, and reporting the quality of assembled products as well as the inspection of purchased materials, components, and assemblies The role will include;

Quality in the Supply Chain

• Determine, maintain, and communicate detailed guidelines to identify which products require goods-in inspection, covering:

o How to conduct the relevant checks, and who is approved to do so
o What the quality standards are
o How to process documentation correctly
o How to raise non-conformances

• Ensure internal systems are kept current with relevant inspection notes
• Approve or reject raw materials as necessary with respect to quality standards
• Resolve supplier quality issues using structured investigation and reporting techniques
• Communicate quality issues to supplier and work closely, to resolve issues
• Coordinate management of RMAs and commercial implications with Purchasing
• Provide technical support during supplier visits and audits
• Capture and report supplier quality performance
• Quality check remaining stock when an issue has been identified with a part or component and ensure effective containment of affected items
• Support new supplier and new product introduction, and manage change qualification activities with suppliers and in house

Quality in the Production Cycle

• Monitor the First Time Pass Yield of the production cycle and routinely carry out inspection, on a sampling basis, for the purposes of
  • identifying improvement and efficiency opportunities
  • designing, and implementing countermeasures and
  • ensuring the ongoing effectiveness of change
• Monitor for product, equipment and system failures which may impact the quality of the service provided by the company to our customers.
• In the event of a failure,
  • work to ensure that timely and accurate containment and corrective actions are instigated and followed
  • identify the root cause; recommending and implementing preventative actions
• Work with Operations teams to increase customer satisfaction by improving the overall quality of the products

Quality (Standards, Audits and Documentation)

• Working with relevant stakeholders to support and lead audits within Operations (and across the organisation as necessary) against applicable standards, (including ISO9001) requirements
• Work with the Operations Manager and Quality Manager to identify any quality metrics that support continuous improvement for manufacturing procedures
• Work with external bodies to support on-going certification to both new and current standards and ensure legal compliance
• Ensure related quality documentation is reviewed, maintained, and updated as necessary

About you:
As a Quality Engineer - Operations your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Sense of urgency.
• Has a drive to get things done correctly and focuses on outcomes and goals; successfully achieves results.
• Understands what needs to be done; and takes a considered initiative to "get the job done
• Experience of working and testing electronic assemblies, being able to read circuit diagrams. Inbound quality testing of PCBs using test jigs
• Demonstrable experience in monitoring, testing, and reporting the quality of assembled products to ensure compliance to ISO9001/ISO17025.
• demonstrable experience in inspection of purchased materials, components, and assemblies to ensure a high First Time Pass Yield (FTPY)
• Resolving supplier quality issues and providing technical support during supplier visits and audits.
• Capture and report supplier quality performance to support the supplier review process.
• Define assessment methods, testing, and acceptance criteria for purchased materials, components, and assemblies.
• Record and analyse results and implement appropriate containment, corrective, and preventive actions.

Quality Engineer - Operations
Bicester
Up to £38000
Permanent
Hybrid flexible working
Holiday entitlement is 27 days plus bank holidays
 
Keywords: Quality Engineer, ISO9001, ISO17025, Supplier Quality, PCB, First time pass yield.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. 
   
This is a permanent position.