Quality Engineer

Job Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Liverpool
Salary: £42,000 - £45,000 (DOE) + annual bonus
Shifts: Mon - Fri (8am-5pm)
Contract: Permanent


Our client is a well-established business who specialise in the design and manufacture in precision tools and equipment for high profile clients within the Automotive, Oil & Gas and Construction industries.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Quality Engineer who can supervise a small team, conduct process/audits and engage in new products to ensure product developments are exact to customer specifications.

As the Quality Engineer, your duties will be:

• Maintain and develop the Quality Management System in line with ISO9001 requirements
• Engage in new product introduction activities
• Ensure compliance to customer specifications
• Manage and resolve customer, supplier, and internal non-conformances.
• Conduct process and product audits periodically.
• Identify and act upon opportunities for improvement
• Generate process related documentation including work instructions, quality alerts, PFMEA's, control plans etc.
• Support with production trials
• Develop and report on COPQ (Cost of Poor Quality) within business.
• Oversee customer and internally driven engineering changes.
• Supervise and lead a team of 3 shift QC personnel.

As the Quality Engineer you will have the following skills and experiences:

• Must have a solid working history within a similar role.
• Excellent customer-facing experience.
• Working knowledge of core quality tools including FMEA, APQP, SPC, MSA & PPAP
• An ability to read and interpret technical drawings
• Understanding of problem-solving tools
• Operation of a CMM / Faro arm
• Some supervisory experience
• Ability / experience with Polyworks
• Knowledge of IMDS