First Base Employment Limited
Quality Engineer
This key role is to support off site manufacturing with customers, sub-contractors and suppliers in the Far East. The successful applicant will be permanently based in Gloucester and will work very closely with a site in France. Regular travel and communication with the French site will form a large part of the role. French language skills would be useful but not essential.
The role:
- Building strong relationships with Far East sites and their suppliers.
- Building strong working relationships with UK Far East Sub-Contractors and their suppliers.
- Completion of FAIR/ISIR reports for RT/RP customers when required
- Support Far East suppliers in completion of FAIR/ISIR/PPAP elements for RT/RP customers
- Interface with customers / projects requirements for IATF16949/ISO9001/ISO14001 (ISO 13485:2016 / AS9100:2016) certified sites.
- QC support for the Projects teams. Advice / Monitoring / supplier management
- Above to include 8D reporting, SCAR replies etc.
- Understand far east suppliers process capabilities and quality management system (certification) arrangements.
- Continual improvement activities for far east supplier’s quality development – including development of project specific SOP’s.
- Development of Suppliers quality capabilities through mentoring and sharing of best practices.
- APQP and PPAP Support- Construction / Completion of PPAP submission’s (Specific Levels/FAIRS/ISIR’s/CofC’s/PSW/MSA/Ge’ R&R/Control Plans/FMEA’s) / Advice across RP + RT.
- Quality Assurance checks/Audits of existing / new Far East Vendors
- Supporting customer quality audit’s management, UK and European customers auditing both UK and Asia sites.
- Regular overseas travel (France and Far East)
- Project support / team feasibility studies at the birth of projects. Encompassing risk review and drawing review. GD+T trained.
- Interface with customers, projects and quality team through all phases to tool maturity.
- Completion of monthly supplier performance statistics for quality reporting.
- IMDS submissions for UK and European customers.
The Candidate:
UK Role Must Haves:
- Experienced Quality Engineer
- Experienced in manufacturing environments ideally automotive including methods of inspection
- General understanding of CAD and interpreting 2D drawing data to GD&T standard
- Experienced Internal Auditor in Quality Management
- Competent in all elements of PPAP (core tools)
- Competent in development of Quality Procedures, SOP/SIP in process quality control documentation
- Bi-lingual French is advantageous
- Valid driver’s license
Personal Qualities:
- Conscientious – good attention to detail
- Completer / Finisher
- Innovative – resourceful
- Confident – self-reliant
- Assertive
- Good communicator both internally and externally
- Good team worker including mentoring
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Strong ability to work effectively under pressure managing multiple tasks daily
UK Role desirable to have:
- Lead Auditor in Quality Management.
- Experience in Environmental ISO 14001:2015 / AIEMA qualification
- 5S / Lean manufacturing experience
- Experienced in travelling and working in far east countries
- Experience of injection moulding environments
- Served a recognised engineering apprenticeship (ideally technical apprenticeship)
- Experienced and comfortable in travelling overseas for work
- Experienced in Injection moulding / tooling design and fundamentals
- 8D Trained
Full time, permanent role
Excellent salary dependent on skills and experience
To apply please send your CV to andrew.penrith@first-base.co.uk
