Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer Salary: Competitive, depending on experience. Working Hours: Full-time, 42 hours per week. Location: Multi-site role, covering two manufacturing facilities. Reporting To: Quality Manager. The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a busy manufacturing environment, playing a key role in maintaining and improving product quality across two manufacturing sites.

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with a strong background in quality engineering, ideally within a foundry or metal manufacturing environment, to take ownership of quality improvement initiatives and help drive a culture of continuous improvement.

Working closely with production, engineering, management and customer-facing teams, you will be responsible for monitoring quality performance, analysing manufacturing data, identifying root causes of defects and implementing effective corrective actions.

The successful candidate will help ensure manufacturing processes consistently meet customer expectations, industry standards and internal quality requirements, with a particular focus on high-integrity ductile iron castings. Key Responsibilities

• Support the development, maintenance and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System (QMS) across both manufacturing sites.
• Monitor manufacturing and product quality performance, using data analysis to identify trends, recurring issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Investigate internal and external quality issues, carrying out root cause analysis and implementing effective corrective and preventative actions.
• Work closely with production and foundry teams to improve process controls, reduce casting defects and minimise manufacturing variability.
• Maintain and review control plans, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other quality documentation.
• Ensure quality requirements are incorporated into process changes, new materials, supplier approvals and product development activities.
• Maintain calibration records and ensure measuring and inspection equipment is appropriately controlled.
• Conduct internal quality audits and support external certification audits, customer assessments and supplier audits.
• Liaise with customers and Tier 1 suppliers regarding quality concerns, providing updates, analysis and improvement plans.
• Monitor and report internal and external rejection rates, ensuring quality performance is communicated effectively to relevant stakeholders.
• Support new product introduction and product development activities, ensuring quality requirements are considered throughout the process.
• Promote Statistical Process Control (SPC), continuous improvement and best practice manufacturing methods.
• Support training and development ac...

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