Manufacturing Quality Engineer

A Manufacturing Quality Engineer Job opportunity has just become available, within a leading manufacturing business. Located in the Manchester area, this well regarded company is offering a competitive salary, for the right engineering professional.

Purpose of the Manufacturing Quality Engineer role -

• Drive operational continuous improvement, to enable the business meet with demanding customer targets.
• Use the relevant quality tools to analyse data and deal with any non-conformances in a professional manner.
• Apply technical expertise within the development and improvement of products, manufacturing processes and systems.
• Manufacturing Quality Engineer responsibilities include -
• Maintain product and production quality assurance and regulatory conformance.
• Continuously develop and maintain processes and guidelines on site.
• Help manage the improvement action programmes, resulting from the review procedures.
• Use the relevant quality tools and techniques (including SPC/pareto/analysis/Ishikawa diagrams/8D) to drive the continuous improvement actions within the production processes.
• Help manage and assist with the Process FMEA's, to ascertain and reduce risk processes.
• Work on internal audits to ascertain the capability of production processes and check that they're aligned with quality, cost and delivery requirements.
• Use Root Cause Analysis and 8D to verify issues and to implement corrective and preventative actions.
• Complete PPAP's, approving the release of parts and processes to the required standards.
• Liaise with internal shareholders to give guidance on product and process designs.
• Assist with the management of improvement plans, to drive performance improvement against the required targets.

Manufacturing Quality Engineer desirable skills/experience/attributes -

• Experience working within a similar position.
• Excellent organisational skills and able to plan/drive lean manufacturing.
• Experience auditing to VDA 6.3 and/or ISO 9001
• Relevant manufacturing/engineering degree/qualification.
• Ideally Six Sigma Green Belt trained.
• Ability to Quality tools including PPAP, APQP, FMEA, 8D, 5Y, SPC, R&R
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate well with all teams and suppliers.
• Natural problem solver and pro-active work ethic.

Manufacturing Quality Engineer position benefits -

• Competitive salary.
• Strong annual leave and pension package.
• Friendly working environment.
• Working for a leading and ever growing manufacturing business.

If interested in this position, please apply through this advert immediately.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your CV on file to consider you for future opportunities.

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