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Posted 3 June 2025
Job ref: 243479NC3

Quality Engineer

  • Location: Southampton, Hampshire, England
  • Salary: £40k - 45k per year
  • Category
  • Sector: Manufacturing
  • Contract type Permanent
  • Consultant: Neil Clark

My client has an opening for a skilled Quality Engineer to join their manufacturing team in Fareham

The successful candidate will have a proven work history as a Manufacturing Quality Engineer ideally from an electronic or electro mechanical industry

1. Production Quality Assurance:
• Monitor and improve production workmanship standards, working with the operations team to ensure suitable technician training and monitoring.
• Ensure specific workmanship and inspection requirements are implemented to defined acceptance criteria, including IPC-A-610 and IPC/WHMA-A-620.
• Inspection, including first article inspection reports.
• Analyse and categorise production rework, identify root causes and implement corrective actions.

2. Customer Quality Assurance Interface:
• Customer complaint and non-conformance investigation, communication and corrective action implementation.
• Hosting customer inspection and audit visits.
• Product recall and field upgrade management.
• Customer satisfaction measurement and reporting.

3. Engineering and Project Quality Assurance:
• Involvement with the product design process, including active participation in design reviews.
• Ensuring robust validation and verification activities at appropriate stages in the design process.
• Working with the New Product Introduction team to ensure new products are suitably designed for efficient manufacture.

4. Supplier Quality Assurance:
• Work with the purchasing team to select, assess and approve suitable suppliers.
• Liaise with suppliers to identify root causes of non-conforming materials and implement corrective actions.
• Monitor, measure and report supplier performance.

5. Business Management System (BMS):
• Document and maintain the process maps, work instructions and forms needed for efficient operation of the quality function.
• Monitor the suitability and effectiveness of the organisation’s BMS, via non- conformance management and internal auditing.
• Liaison with certification bodies when they carry out 3rd party audits of the organisation’s BMS to ISO9001 and or ISO14001.

Application by CV only please

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