Quality Engineer

at  Cosworth

Job Description:
Are you a skilled Quality Engineer wanting to be a part of a hard working and dedicated team? Cosworth is seeking a highly motivated Quality Engineer to support our Central Quality team on a permanent, full-time basis. Based in Northampton, you will provide Quality Engineering support to the company’s Quality, Production and Engineering functions whilst also being part of the customer interface.

• Ownership of internal quality issues and resolution with known Quality tools, in a timely fashion.
• Data collection, collation, and development of improvement activities.
• Definition of inspection criteria.
• Lineside quality improvement activities such as defect disposition analysis, scrap and rework analysis, as well as general improvement projects.
• Data driven improvement activities in response to internal quality gate findings including conducting root cause analysis, countermeasure implementation and auditing.
• Management of internal quality KPIs and metrics – development of improvement plans.
• Conducting internal quarantine and scrap reviews.
• Assisting in external Quality activities where needed (significant overlap with customer impact issues).
• Planning and Managing APQP and PPAP activities, including the PPAP tracker.
• Raising and management of concessions and the concession system.
• Process and Product Auditing and improvement activities.
• Consider the health and safety, environmental and energy impact of all activities.
• Support the Company’s compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, following policy and best practice.