Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer - Automotive

A prestige automotive manufacturer has an immediate requirement for an experienced Quality Engineer, to ensure compliance to international standards and solve complex quality issues

Key Accountabilities

• Interpreting international and group standards to ensure new product introduced is compliant to both legal and safety requirements
• Ensuring the correct assessment of significant and critical characteristics through the application of FMEA to ensure the correct preventative and detection methods are implemented
• Utilising support network (quality specialist & technicians) assigned to the same content and steering them tasks to aid the overall success of the module development
• Regular status reporting of progress to target in management circles and to wider project circles when required.
• Ensuring problem-solving activities are performed correctly and promptly to maintain solution target dates
• Overall responsible for assigned project content to ensure relevant quality activities are completed and project milestones are maintained
• Working with multiple stakeholders to aid the ongoing development of concepts through early-stage design, hardware events and pre-series build phases
• To ensure relevant aspects of APQP are completed as per project requirements
• Monitoring content KPIs and steering cross-functional stakeholders to develop, maintain and improve quality output of the new model production process
• Identifying and escalating critical path topics in a timely fashion to the management team

Impact on innovations and changes

• Leading problem-solving activities
• Defining and validating solutions in problem solving activities
• Input & feedback to aid the improvement of development & manufacturing processes
• Feedback to engineering teams to ensure upcoming products have lessons learned applied
• Identifying improvement opportunities and implementing new/updated internal processes
• Able to communicate a plan visually including clear activities and milestones (upstream and downstream)
• Able to transfer information from technical documents e.g. 2d drawing, ISO standards, into a clear definition of requirements to aid jig/fixture purchase and sign-off

Qualifications & Experience

• HNC/HND in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Quality Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Technical knowledge and understanding of defects and customer relevance, including defect capturing methods.
• Comprehensive PC skills (Office, SharePoint, IPS-Q).
• Experience in automotive core tools (APQP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, PPAP)
• Expert knowledge and working experience of structured problem-solving methods (Fishbone, 5Y, DMAIC etc.)
• Knowledge in how to read gap plans / drawings / inspection instructions.
• Fluent English is essential and German would be an advantage.
• Previous experience in manufacturing operations.
• Leading project teams and managing progress against plan

Additional Skills

• Experience & knowledge of measurement tools (DTI, inspection gauges) and gathering data
• An understanding of lean manufacturing principles.
• Working knowledge of 7 basic tools of quality

Interested, please contact Graeme at Vibe Recruit on (phone number removed) or apply immediately!

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