Quality Engineer (189lw) – Automotive - Oxfordshire - £ market salary

Our client is one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers with 347 manufacturing operations and 94 products developing, engineering and sales centres in 27 countries. Their competitive capabilities include body exteriors and structures, power and vision technologies, seating systems and complete vehicle solutions. Regarding salary, we can confirm this over a telephone call with prospective candidates.

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS RECRUITMENT CONSULTANCY, WE ARE ONLY ABLE TO REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EX MILITARY.

The team environment is fantastic & at an exciting time of growth; friendly, team based, fully supportive of training and progression and with opportunities to move around different departments (it is extremely rare to have so many different types of engineering & technical aspects on 1 site (i.e. moulding, automation, robotic painting, assembly & tooling). Safety & Quality is paramount.

The hiring need is for a Quality Engineer, who will be responsible for ensuring Quality improvements are driven, tracked, and communicated within the company.

Main duties:
- Liaise with the customer for all quality concerns, warranty claims and PPAP submissions for product/ process changes.
- Lead problem solving investigations and 8D submissions to customer
- Define containment activities for internal/external concerns and ensure they are completed effectively.
- Identify opportunities for improving product /process Quality.
- Prepare and update control plans
- Participate on PFMEA reviews and updates as required
- Conduct Product, Process and QMS audits
- Analyse warranty data and lead root cause /improvement action with the relevant departments
- Analysis of returned parts from field
- Prepare documentation for product/process changes
- Participate in continuous improvement projects to improve departmental performance on safety, uptime, availability, maintenance, equipment modifications, plant, error proofing, technical systems and processes and cost down opportunities.
- Taking fast action to reduce customer demerits and cost of quality.
- Use consumables responsibly
- Participate in training and development programmes and share knowledge with the wider teams & identify areas of development and training requirements.
- Comply with - Health & Safety and Environmental Policies, General Risk Assessments, Manual Handling Risk Assessments, COSHH Risk Assessments, Safe System of Work documents
- Report accidents and near misses.
- Take appropriate actions in emergency situations.
- Raise quality care points.
- Liaise with other departments regarding quality concerns.
- Adhere to standardised working procedures.
- Participate in quality checks and controls.
- Report repeat quality issues.
- Ensure all quality decisions are made considering risk to supply and escalate as required.

Knowledge, skills and experience:
- Good analytical skills.
- Candidates must be able to work using their own initiative, and be able to liaise with other functions and departments at all levels within the company.
- Manual dexterity.
- Literacy and numeracy.
- Ability to identify different colours of products (i.e. Ishihara).
- Strong problem-solving experience.
- Must be able to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Strong attention span with a good eye for detail.
- Good negotiation Skills
- Analytical
- 3- 5 years quality engineering experience
- Good knowledge of quality improvement tools
- Computer literate in word, excel, PowerPoint

If you are interested in applying, please send a copy of your CV with a note outlining why this would be the ideal opportunity for you, by email to [email protected]

https://www.ex-mil.co.uk/vacancies/7369/quality-engineer-automotive