Job Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Salisbury
Salary: £38,000 – £42,000 per annum
Job type: Full Time, will be worked over a 4.5 day week; Monday to Thursday 08:00 – 16:45 and Friday 08:00 – 12:30. Flexibility in this role is critical to the success of supporting the team. In return, there will be an opportunity to sometimes work from home.
Chemring Countermeasures is a world leading and innovative company, designing and developing countermeasure solutions to armed forces throughout the world. We are part of the Chemring Group of companies and have a solid global infrastructure, which also helps us to thrive.
Must hold sole British citizenship and you must have continually resided in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.
The role:
You will support Production with quality issues that arise during manufacture. You will also drive improvements in the quality of products and will increase process capability. You will assist in gathering Key Performance Indicators to measure this.
You will be familiar with using various quality tools and techniques, (such as 8D, Measurements Systems Analysis, pFMEA, root cause analysis, Control Plans) to improve products and processes across the site. Though you may not have worked with these kinds of products before, you will have a good understanding of mechanical engineering.
This role is not suitable for Software Engineers.
The Candidate:
- Right to live and work in the UK, with ability to obtain SC level clearance
- Must have continually resided in the UK for a minimum of 5 years
- HNC or BTEC level 5 equivalent in an engineering related discipline
- ISO9001:2015, TS16949 or similar experience
- Proficient in MS Office
Knowledge/Experience Required:
- ISO9001:2015, TS16949 or similar experience
- Experience of Supplier Development / SQA
- Experience of dealing with customers
- Experience of internal auditing.
- Knowledge of 5S
- Knowledge of Zero Defects Methodology and NPP process experience
- Knowledge Component Inspection Techniques
- Knowledge of Statistical Analysis / Software experience (Minitab)
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Work to develop manufacturing Process Controls and documentation.
- Support Design FMEAs, facilitate Process FMEAs and generate Process Control Plans.
- Support Manufacturing in resolving quality issues and identifying root cause.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement activities and preventive control measures to ensure process controls are optimised.
- Investigate customer complaints and write complaint reports.
- Carry out or review risk assessments and support the departmental Safety targets.
Benefits:
- We actively encourage an open and collaborative culture across our site through the recognised suggestion scheme and reward and recognition scheme
- 5.5 weeks’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- A generous pension scheme
- Share save scheme
- Holiday buying and selling scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which includes dietary advice, wellbeing initiatives, family matters and counselling support
- We hold annual social events
- Cultural days
- Free on-site parking
- Podiatrist
- Weekly fruit baskets
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Quality Development Engineer, QA, Product Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance Engineer, QA Engineer, Continuous Improvement, Quality Engineering, Quality performance Engineer, Manufacturing Quality Tester, Quality Management System Auditor, QMS may also be considered for this role.
