YOUR NEW ROLE

We are looking for a Quality Engineer who is experienced and has got a good track record of working across and driving improvements for current production, supply chain and launch quality.
You will play a pivotal role in developing new and existing processes, implementing systems and ensuring products exceed quality standards, meet safety regulations, delight customers and achieve on time delivery, with a chance to shape the future of manufacturing excellence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE QUALITY ENGINEER ROLE:

• Be a key team member; working cross functionally across Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Design, Supply Chain and Purchasing, supporting manufacturing readiness, to achieve on time, customer order dates.
• Ensure the relevant quality controls are implemented at the correct part of a process, to deliver the required design data and customer requirements.
• Supports supplier operational, technical, health, safety and environmental audits in line with Beaufort’s supply chain audit calendar.
• Driving supplier quality improvements / coaching suppliers to improve capability.
• Working closely and proactively with supply chain to anticipate and react to any potential high impact quality issues, that may affect quality and customer delivery schedule.
• Involved in the early stages of our new product development / maturity gates and using APQP principles to have the maximum impact on product robustness and validating APQP activities have been carried out to a satisfactorily level; to meet customer requirements.
• Supporting the creation of PFMEA’s and responsible for the creation of pre-launch and production control plans.
• Supporting all production builds / quality loops, capturing build issues relating to process, parts and design and driving the quality improvement roadmap to achieve the required launch metrics.
• Champions/leads problem solving activities for internal quality issues, supplier quality, non-conformance and customer complaint investigations, ensuring issues are robustly contained and fixed and that findings are documented, reported and escalated appropriately.
• Monitor production scrap and RFT and drive improvements.
• Cultivate a quality-first mindset across the team.
• Applying lean principles / tools / methodologies to thinking and processes.
• Capturing lessons learnt from current production / supply chain and launch and driving prevent re-occurrence and improvement actions to standards / procedures.