SQA Engineer

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a supplier quality management system to meet the needs of the organisation.
• Prepare and implement an audit schedule across the current supply base, ensuring detailed and informative visit and audit reports are completed. Prospective suppliers to be audited as identified.
• Benchmarking activities to be completed with existing suppliers and potential new suppliers. Findings to be incorporated into supplier development plans.
• Maintain up-to-date records of supplier certifications
• Work to Engineering Change process ensuring all related documentation and actions are completed.
• Develop and foster effective working relationships with suppliers, adopting an open and honest approach based on factual evidence.
• Raise the profile of quality standards and effective monitoring techniques through education and enforcement amongst internal and external stakeholders.
• Inspection of customer returns related to part quality in the Distribution centre
• Coordination with Product company SQA, Customer centre Product specialist for challenges
• Any other reasonable task the manager may deem as suitable for the role.
  

Professional Requirements

• Degree calibre in an Engineering discipline
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing role with a prevalent continuous improvement culture
• Experience of working to ISO quality standards
• Proven ability of managing projects to required standards
• Proven ability to develop supplier relationships with a professional approach to conflict resolution
• Ability to understand and interpret technical drawings
• Understand a range of manufacturing processes including casting, injection moulding and machining
  

Personal Competencies

• Attention to detail
• Ability to work on own initiative with a pro-active strategic approach to challenges
• Effective team player
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to build close relationships internally and externally
• Ability to influence individuals and teams to achieve desired goals and objectives
• Highly motivated and resilient; committed to seeing tasks through to completion
• Ability to take a systematic approach to daily operations
• Systems focused
• Commercial awareness and clear business acumen
  

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being
  

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