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Quality Engineer
- Posted 02 September 2025
- Salary 36000.00
- LocationNorthampton
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Commercial
- ReferenceJ1993
Job description
We are Hiring:
Quality Engineer (AUTOMOTIVE / MANUFACTURING)
Location: Northampton
Type: Permanent
Salary: Up to £36 000.00 p/a (DOE)
Start Date: Immediately
Hours: 40 hours per week
Job Description:
To provide guidance and support in relation to all aspects of quality control and assurance across all departments. Ensuring continuing quality conformity in relation to product and processes within the organisation.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitor and analyse quality performance data.
- Actively participate in internal audits as per the internal audit scheduled and support with customer on site audits. Ensuring that any audit nonconformities raised are closed out within a reasonable time scale.
- Assist in third party audits for ISO9001, IATF16949 and ISO14001.
- Lead problem solving activities, utilizing industry standard methodologies.
- Coordination of document control (specifications, standards, and procedures).
- Create and deliver customer quality control reports (FAIRS, ISIR, PPAP and APQP) documents to ensure that they are correctly completed to meet customer requirements.
- Ensure product verification activities are completed in a timely manner.
- Handling of customer returns ensuring all returns are quickly dealt with and the causes are rectified.
- Support and assist the business with continuous improvement activities.
- Lead despatch and certification activities and processes with regards to quality management aspects ensuring all supporting documentation is available at the point of dispatch.
- To support and cover goods in/out checks.
- To support and cover daily production checks and line audits.
- Use of measuring equipment to help generate measurement reports for products for product.
Requirements:
- Experience in manufacturing / automotive.
- Experience of rubber and plastic injection moulding industry.
- Strong experience collaborating with global automotive customers quality systems and understanding customer specific requirements.
- Understanding of quality tools and techniques.
- ISO9001/IATF16949 internal auditing training.
- ISO9001/IATF16949 lead auditor training.
- AIAG core tools experience.
- ISO14001 internal/lead auditor training.
Qualifications:
- GCSEs.
- Relevant degree with a technical focus.
Job Reference (when applying):
- #QENG