Production Quality Engineer

Do you want to work in an exciting company who develop technology for the Civil Aerospace, Defence, Space, Industrial, Medical and Scientific industries? If so this global company who work on some of the highest profile projects such as Eurofighter Typhoon and the CERN large hadron collider are expanding and are keen to recruit an a Production Quality Engineer. This is a crucial role within the company, to deliver further improvements in Quality. Development of the Quality function requires improvement of the Divisions product verification and real-time problem resolution.

Duties:
Lead the investigations for the area and be responsible for the management of function for RF Power.
Acts as first line support for manufacturing issues that cannot be resolved at the Cell level by Manufacturing Technicians or Cell Controllers.
Validate processes using statistical techniques including Measurement Systems Analysis and Production Capability.
Assign ownership, develop action owner review and escalation process ensuring full root cause analysis and corrective actions are completed
Monitor completed actions to ensure that the corrective actions implemented are sustained, and updates presented through attendance at Cell Production Boards including Quality metrics.
Upskilling of Manufacturing Technicians to empower them to resolve issues at a local level within the manufacturing area.
Provide mentoring and coaching to peers across the business in the effective use and implementation of tools to maximise the short and medium term development of effective Control Plans.
Drive the culture change across peers to embed methods in the Continuous Improvement Cycle.
Develop and implement KPI's including resources, systems and service level response expectations.
Provide input to financial reports and budgets to support, contribute to and integrate within the overall Quality functions' annual business plan and long term strategy plus ensure the continued process effectivity.
Support the delivery of an effective communications strategy for improvement and awareness of quality issues across all departments.
Ensure production output, through front to back process, conforms to specification until verification methods are productionised.

Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or an equivalent level of experience.
A strong leader with good communication skills with the ability to work with all levels of the business.
Experience in an engineering function in support of manufacturing.
A working knowledge of electrical and mechanical assembly, manufacturing and test.
Hands on, independent thinker, able to take an assertive stance to enforce the key requirements of quality and the customer.
Must be able to demonstrate a high level of self-motivation and creativity.
Knowledge of mechanical manufacturing philosophies, i.e. design for manufacture I assembly / test techniques.
Problem solving experience (8D, A3, Root Cause Analysis etc.)
Strong analytical skills.
Capable of obtaining SC Security Clearance

Benefits:
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
6% matched pension
Free parking
Hours 8.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Thursday finishing at 4.30pm on Friday.

Please note that if you have not been contacted within 7 days your application for this position has been unsuccessful