Quality Administrator

Key Details

Work hours: 37 hours per week

Location: Hillsborough, Sheffield

Job type: Permanent, Full-time

Independent Forgings and Alloys (IFA) is one of the UK’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers. The unique feature about IFA is the combination of open and closed-die forging while also undertaking the whole production process from raw material to the finished product in one location. Operating from a 680 000ft2 facility in Sheffield, we manufacture high-integrity, open-die and closed-die forged components in nickel alloy, titanium, stainless steel and carbon alloys for customers and tier-one suppliers within the aerospace, nuclear, power generation, marine as well as oil and gas sector.

Main Purpose of the Role

Reporting to the Quality Manager, you will be part of a team responsible for customer focused quality and product excellence. You will be responsible for producing customer quality documentation to the highest standards, handling customer quality issues and non-conformance as well as participating in both customer site visits and audits.

Key Accountabilities

• Review works route cards and other quality release documents for compliance to customer purchase order requirements.
• Produce and submit first article inspection reports packages to customer requirements.
• Focal point of customer quality liaison within IFA.
• Liaise with departments to promote a standard of product and documentation excellence.
• Produce final release documentation (Certificates of conformity, Customer concession documentation, Despatch documentation etc.)
• Approved final release signatory for IFA product.

Any other duties as may reasonably be required such as:

• Perform internal audits to defined schedule as required.
• Be involved in external customer audits/visits as required.
• Analysis of quality and product data as required.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Good understanding of Quality Procedures.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, Word and Windows-based data systems.
• Ability to work to deadlines and keep calm in stressful times.
• Excellent communication and liaison skills.
• Flexible and proactive approach.
• Ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Educated to 5 GCSE’s A-C or equivalent, including Maths and English.

Company principles and culture

Our vision of success through integrity is supported by our core values:

• Working safely – safety is a priority in all that we do, both the safety of all on site and the provision of a safe product.
• Teamwork – by working respectfully together on teams across our business, we build great relationships, recognize outstanding contributions and create the environment for our highly skilled workforce to support our customers in meetings their requirements.
• Always looking for improvement – our teams are excellent at what they do and are constantly working to improve our processes.

Why work for us?

At IFA we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. As one of the UK’s leading forge manufacturers we want to ensure that we attract, motivate and retain the best people who can deliver the best service to the company and our customers.

We offer you:

• Competitive pay.
• Holidays – you will have 33 days holiday, including bank holidays.
• Pension scheme – IFA wants to provide its employees a good foundation for the life after work and hence offers a 5% contribution. The pension scheme comes along with further discounts on health, travel and rescue insurances.
• Bonus scheme – this is linked to team and company performance.
• Westfield cash plan – IFA provides level 1 health cash plan which comes along with numerous discounts and special offers, including gym discounts, online, high street and grocery retailers and many more.
• Death in service payment, full company sick pay and long service rewards.
• Tax efficiency schemes: Childcare vouchers and Cycle to Work.
• Free work wear and PPE.
• On-site parking is available.
• Focus on wellbeing and mental health awareness.
• Trust – we encourage you to come up with ideas and get the most out of your job with us.
• Development – we offer genuine development opportunities to progress your career.

If this has drawn your interest, we would be delighted to hear from you! Please hit the apply now button and upload your CV.

For further information please visit our company website.