Quality Engineer

Hampshire

£38-42k

Quality Engineer Urgently required to work for a specialist manufacturing business in Hampshire. This is a key role to the business where you will be required to provide hands-on quality expertise to ensure all products and services meet customer requirements. You will be required to support the business in Quality improvement initiatives, Ensure supplier quality excellence, inspection and ensuring quality excellence is carried out within production and new product designs.

Key aspects of the quality engineer role will be to Aid productivity improvements with project-based activities, including new product introduction and manufacturing cell design to reduced waste, improve quality and safety, and reduce operating costs. You will work with production, quality and engineering personnel to determine critical part features and review manufacturability of design. Make recommendations to modify product and process specifications and tolerances as necessary to support cost effective production.

The role:

• Provide quality engineering support to operations ensuring consistent application of quality techniques.
• Resolve quality issues of capability, tolerancing, and materials related issues.
• Resolve quality issues by identifying problems, examining solution options, implementing action plans, and providing resources.
• Effectively communicate and reinforce quality improvement efforts.
• Assisting NPI department in pre-production process ensuring quality excellence is achieved on product prior to release to production.
• Working closely with NPI team to ensure pre-production process is supported and quality information is gathered and reported before product release.
• Participate in the use of a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) where required.
• Perform supplier audits as required and provide ongoing communication/reporting of results.
• Participate in the reporting, analysis and review of product and process performance to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Produce supplier reports to support supplier purchasing reviews and audits.
• Supporting mechanical inspection quality decisions and investigations with a view to reducing engineering support resources.
• To maintain, manage and improve non-conformance reporting (NCR) system and allocation of tasks as part of reviews
• Experience of process management.
• Proven experience of Production Quality Engineering and Control within a Manufacturing environment.
• Proven track record of driving continuous quality improvement in a manufacturing environment.
• Practical knowledge of IPC Standards.

We are looking for Minimum of 5 years' experience in quality environments within engineering, manufacturing sectors.
You will ideally be Auditor Certified - preferred but not essential.
A Bachelor's degree in engineering, prefer Manufacturing, Electrical or Mechanical.
Member of the CQI.

If you have the above skills and wish to be considered for this position or find out more details then please contact Nathan Woakes on (phone number removed) or submit your CV to (url removed) alternatively, apply to this advert!

Proactive also offer a referral scheme for successful applicants - if you know anyone that could be suited to this position then please contact Proactive with there details and if they are placed by Proactive you will receive £250. *T&Cs apply*

Proactive Technical Recruitment is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
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