Quality Engineer - Plastic & Rubber Manufacturing

Shifts- Monday-Thursday 8:00-17:00, Friday 8:00-13:00 NO WEEKEND WORK

Location- Northampton, Northamptonshire. Onsite role

Salary- £36,000

What you'll do to be a successful Quality Engineer:

Lead quality assurance processes, ensuring products meet industry and customer standards.
Dealing and responding with any returns from customers, then analysing where any issues or defects are coming from.
Lead problem solving activities, utilising industry standard methodologies: 8D's, 5 Whys, 3C, DMAIC, Ishikawa fish bone diagrams, FMEA's
Liaising with different internal departments, such as production and management
Measurements of parts will be key using a variety of different skills and tools.
Perform inspections, audits, third party audits also, and testing on plastic and rubber components.
Co-ordination of document control specifications, standards, procedures

Education and desired skills to have to be a successful Quality Engineer:

Strong experience working with automotive customers quality systems and understanding customer requirements.
Bachelor/Masters degree with a technical focus or time served in a comparable role.
An understanding of both ISO9001 and IATF16949.
An understanding of Quality tools and techniques (8D, Lean, 5 whys, Pareto Analysis, Six- Sigma, DFMEA, PFMEA, PPAP, APQP, MSA etc preferred).
Experience of rubber & plastic injection moulding industry would be an advantage