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Senior Quality Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom at Owen Daniels
Title: Senior Quality Engineer
Company: Owen Daniels
Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Senior Quality Engineer
Permanent Position
Excellent salary/package (Holiday: 25 days + 8 Statutory Days, Pension up to 8% matched, Life Assurance: 5x Basic Salary)
Growing Manufacturing Business
Onsite in Birmingham
My client are a precision manufacturing business based in Birmingham specialising in machining and assembly of high value low volume components.The Senior Quality Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that our products meet the required quality standards. Working to minimise quality costs whilst maximising customer satisfaction and ensuring that the necessary procedures and processes are fully adhered to. The Senior Quality Engineer will ensure incoming materials and products meet the required quality standards and will be responsible for identifying and raising quality issues and for speedily resolving them to ensure zero impact to the customer
Senior Quality Engineer
Job Description
Lead quality engineering team, ownership of MRB process, reporting KPI’s and associated improvement plans designed to ensure compliance with business and customer quality objectives.
Ownership of non-conformance process, ensuring timely and robust execution of issue resolution and corrective/preventative actions (internal, supplier and customer).
Support and lead process improvement activities.
Assist with training of quality awareness, within the quality team and broader organisation.
Deputise for Quality Manager, as and when required.
Undertake special projects as required.
Monitoring product quality and reporting to the Management Team.
Investigating product quality issues to establish root causes and liaising with the necessary key stakeholders to implement improvements.
Conduct benchmarking studies to determine quality best practices/designs and future trends.
Timely resolution of quality issues through robust root cause analysis and implementation of permanent and preventative corrective actions.
Providing Quality Engineering support for the development of FMEA’s, quality control, and test plans as part of the product Life Cycle Management process.
Reviewing customer complaints and actioning as necessary.
Quality control of products being reworked, reviewing rework instructions, and ensuring adherence.
Managing factory quality KPI’s, leading their communication to the wider business and being the driving force behind implementation of the identified improvements.
Provide quality related support and guidance to other team members
Senior Quality Engineer
Essential Qualifications / Experience / Skills
Degree or equivalent qualification with a strong engineering/manufacturing background
A strong background in Quality Engineering and Quality Assurance, ideally within an OEM manufacturing/assembly business
Strong and demonstrable experience of dealing with customers and suppliers
In-depth knowledge of 8D/3C principles, ability to run and report on investigations outcomes with internal and external stakeholders
Strong knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and First Article Inspection Reporting (FAIR’s)
Strong understanding of engineering drawings, manufacturing processes and GD&T
