Senior Quality Engineer

Core skills/attributes needed:

Essential:

-Minimum of 5 years’ experience within the Aerospace Industry, AS9100 requirements & NADCAP

-Minimum of 10 year’s Engineering experience

-Experience in lean tools and practical problem solving such as 8D, Kaizen processes

-High attention to detail, good problem solver and strong communication skills

-In-depth understanding of engineering/technical documentation and specifications

-A natural leader, who can motivate and lead with excellent interpersonal skill

-Excellent verbal and written communication skills as this is a customer faced role

Knowledge and Experience:

-Previous Internal auditing experience advantageous

-Experience in a quality control environment preferred

-First Article Inspection Report experience

-Experience of Machining, Fabrications and Treatments

-Chemical and special processes knowledge

-New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP + PPAP Awareness

-Ability to resolve issues logically and methodically using proven methods

-Self-motivated with a desire to learn

Seniority Requirements:

-A key part of this role will be interacting and communicating with shop floor operators,management and customers, it is essential you can communicate in a clear and concise manner

-Setting staff expectation inline with department and company objectives

-Ability to prioritise work based on criticality ensuring timescales are met

-Development, coaching & Support of others

-Manage and lead a team to achieve the set expectations

-Manage all quality-related issues within the manufacturing team (e.g. internal, supplier, customer)

-Monitor and report on quality-related key performance indicators including scrap monitoring, rework levels, parts per million (PPM) figures, NCR status

-Communicate throughout the shop floor, with peers, management and customers

-Carry out team supervision, development reviews & annual resource reviews

-Confident and effective verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Purpose of role and key accountabilities:

To provide Quality and Inspection support for both existing and new business opportunities and to develop the Right First-Time philosophy required to become a leading supplier of quality components to the aerospace industry

* Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process, in line with business standards and customer requirements

* Check and verify the compliance of components produced at all stages within business

* Identify reoccurring quality issues and communicate them to the chief inspector along with recommendations

* Assist in the 5Why, Non-conformance procedures, RCCA & CAPA quality procedures and produce root cause analysis of product failures

* Represent the quality function at team meetings

* Support, develop and improve the relationship with quality contacts within our customer base

* Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit product and processes

* To work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required.

* To support, develop, maintain and improve the company’s quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system

* To conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and techniques to ensure that the manufacturing processes meet customer requirement

* Activities will focus on the internal Quality SQCDP requirements, including closing out actions and reporting against the company requirements

* Gardner’s key objective is to ensure Right First Time, Every time! Which is achieved by effective allocation, and any issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner