Senior Quality Engineer

Derby | Senior Quality Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join our team at our Derby site.

39 Hours: Monday – Thursday: 8.00am - 16.45pm / Friday 8.00am - 12.30pm

Salary💷 £47,500 per annum

Benefits

• Company pension scheme

• 25 days annual leave + 8 statutory holidays, Christmas shut down

• BUPA Health care

• Free onsite parking

• Death in Service benefit

• Long Service awards

Essential:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within the Aerospace Industry, AS9100 requirements & NADCAP

• Experience in lean tools and practical problem solving such as 8D, Kaizen processes

• High attention to detail, good problem solver and strong communication skills

• In-depth understanding of engineering/technical documentation and specifications

• A natural leader, who can motivate and lead with excellent interpersonal skill

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as this is a customer faced role

Knowledge and Experience:

• Previous Internal auditing experience advantageous

• Experience in a quality control environment preferred

• First Article Inspection Report experience

• Experience of Machining, Fabrications and Treatments

• Chemical and special processes knowledge

• New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP + PPAP Awareness

• Ability to resolve issues logically and methodically using proven methods

• Self-motivated with a desire to learn

Seniority Requirements:

• A key part of this role will be interacting and communicating with shop floor operators and management, it is essential you can communicate in a clear and concise manner

• Setting staff expectation in line with department and company objectives

• Ability to prioritise work based on criticality ensuring timescales are met

• Development, coaching & Support of others

• Manage and lead a team to achieve the set expectations

• Manage all quality-related issues identified during audits, internal or external

• Support on root cause investigation on product NCRs

• Monitor and report on quality-related key performance indicators including completed internal and externa audits, along with any findings. Outstanding actions relating to audits and improvement activities.

• Communicate throughout the shop floor, with peers and management

• Carry out team supervision, development reviews & annual resource reviews

• Confident and effective verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Purpose of role and key accountabilities:

To provide Quality support for both existing and new business opportunities and to develop the Right First-Time philosophy required to become a leading supplier of quality components to the aerospace industry.

• * Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process, in line with business standards and customer requirements

• * Check and verify the compliance of components produced at all stages within business

• * Identify reoccurring quality issues and communicate them to the chief inspector along with recommendations

• * Assist in the 5 Why, Non-conformance procedures, RCCA & CAPA quality procedures and produce root cause analysis of product failures

• * Represent the quality function at team meetings

• * Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit product and processes

• * To conduct product and procedure audits in line with the audit schedule

• * Lead and support external audits e.g. NADCAP

• * To work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required.

• * To support, develop, maintain and improve the company’s quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system

• * To conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and techniques to ensure that the manufacturing processes meet customer requirement

• * Activities will focus on the internal Quality SQCDP requirements, including closing out actions and reporting against the company requirements

• * Gardner’s key objective is to ensure Right First Time, Every time! Which is achieved by effective allocation, and any issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner

The employee must also strive to support the elements of the SQCDP framework of the wider Gardner business;

• Safety: work in line with all accredited company safety standards in order to provide a safe working environment for all

• Quality: support the quality accreditations across the business to ensure the delivery of a ‘right first time’ performance

• Cost: support the continuous improvements in cost reduction activities across the company in order to deliver increased profitability and value for money to our customers and stakeholders

• Delivery: drive improvement in delivery performance to continually exceed customer expectations and targets

• People: support organisational capability and influence cultural change by embracing diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and community

NOTE: Due to the nature of this role and the security requirements linked to projects with the UK Ministry of Defence, applicants must be eligible for UK Security Clearance