Job Description:

📍 Derby | Senior Quality Engineer 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join our team at our Derby site. 

39 Hours: Monday – Thursday: 8.00am - 16.45pm / Friday 8.00am - 12.30pm 

Salary💷 £47,500 per annum 

Benefits

*  Company pension scheme

*  25 days annual leave + 8 statutory holidays, Christmas shut down

*  BUPA Health care

*  Free onsite parking

*  Death in Service benefit

*  Long Service awards 

Essential:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within the Aerospace Industry, AS9100 requirements & NADCAP
• 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 and management, it is essential you can communicate in a clear and concise manner
• Setting staff expectation in line 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 identified during audits, internal or external
• Support on root cause investigation on product NCRs
• Monitor and report on quality-related key performance indicators including completed internal and externa audits, along with any findings. Outstanding actions relating to audits and improvement activities.
• Communicate throughout the shop floor, with peers and management
• 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 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 5 Why, Non-conformance procedures, RCCA & CAPA quality procedures and produce root cause analysis of product failures

** Represent the quality function at team meetings

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

** To conduct product and procedure audits in line with the audit schedule

** Lead and support external audits e.g. NADCAP

** 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

The employee must also strive to support the elements of the SQCDP framework of the wider Gardner business;

*  Safety: work in line with all accredited company safety standards in order to provide a safe working environment for all

*  Quality: support the quality accreditations across the business to ensure the delivery of a ‘right first time’ performance

*  Cost: support the continuous improvements in cost reduction activities across the company in order to deliver increased profitability and value for money to our customers and stakeholders

*  Delivery: drive improvement in delivery performance to continually exceed customer expectations and targets

*  People: support organisational capability and influence cultural change by embracing diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and community

NOTE: Due to the nature of this role and the security requirements linked to projects with the UK Ministry of Defence, applicants must be eligible for UK Security Clearance.