Quality Technician

Company Profile

A market leading manufacturing company operating across the world. Offering a varied and technical role, with a great package and flexible working hours.

Position Expectations

As a quality technician you will be responsible for testing materials, components or finished products to ensure they conform to applicable standards and procedures. You will assist and support the inspection team and quality engineers through the assembly, inspection and testing across three stages of manufacturing (before, in-process and final)

Other areas of focus for the role include calibration of measuring equipment, supporting the first article Inspection process, conducting internal audits and practical problem solving to improve processes and procedures.

Key responsibilities include:

• Investigate quality issues and identify route causes as well as contributing to the implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Conduct product and process auditing.
• Support quality control activities such as part inspection, fault identification and stock sorting.
• Support the introduction of new products into organisation including NPI gate reviews and associated quality team actions.
• Support the introduction, management and release of NPI stock including rejected items.
• Facilitate Continuous improvement (CI), New product introduction (NPI) and Engineering Change Request (ECR) Activities.
• Monitor calibration system & ensure equipment is continually calibrated to schedule.
• Support supplier quality engineers during busy periods or times of absence.

Skills, know-how and experience required:

• 3 years’ inspection experience.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and use required equipment to confirm inaccuracies.
• A strong work ethic, effective time management abilities and good organisational skills.
• Working with cross functional teams.
• Manufacturing in a high value, low volume setting.
• Effective communicator both written and orally.
• Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Access.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to prioritise work and have a flexible approach to handling unexpected events.

Benefits

• Pension, death in service scheme, company profit sharing scheme and rewards and recognition scheme
• 74-hour fortnight worked over 9 days with alternate Fridays off
• 25 days’ holiday + Bank Holidays

Only suitable candidates will be directly contacted about this position, and we will not store or process the data of candidates in any way unless consent has been obtained.