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Quality assurance engineer, £48760 – 56890, Derbyshire
Annual bonus, 33 days holiday, up to 18% total pension contribution, life assurance, company sickness benefit.
About the company
ATA are working exclusively with one of the UKs leading OEM groups at their world class manufacturing facility in Derbyshire. We are supporting them on a recruitment drive to add quality assurance engineers to their team due to new project wins, internal promotion, and the requirement to increase their workforce throughout 2025. The groups UK arm is a critical part in the company wheel and currently operates as their flag ship site in Europe accounting for an impressive £3B of the groups £210B annual turnover.
The company are world renowned within its sector and often pioneers new technology which keeps them ahead of its competitors. This has recently included an investment of over £300million across both sites which will allow for a tremendous period of growth cementing their foothold within a marketspace they excel within.
About the role
As a quality assurance engineer you will be working on valuable projects in the QA division to instil and drive a quality mindset across the whole business.
Responsibilities will include:
- Design and implement quality standards. Keeping up to date with ISO 9001 compliance.
- Create testing methods and procedures to ensure product quality at various stages of production.
- Working within 1st Tier and 2nd Tier Part Suppliers, auditing their quality manufacturing systems are robust, effective, and fall in line with company expectations.
- Collaborating with other group sites across Europe on kaizen activities, learning and passing on information.
- Completing Root cause analysis – Using techniques such as 5why, FMEA and Fishbone (Ishikawa)
- Maintaining detailed records and producing reports detailing what’s going well and areas for improvement – Mgmt reports.
- Project management, putting together business cases for future improvement activities.
- Training staff on quality procedures, quality control techniques.
- This role includes travel across the UK and Mainland Europe.
About you
To be considered for this quality assurance engineer role you should have/be the following:
- Experience working within a high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Experience with ISO 9001 compliance
- Experience with APQP & PPAP processes.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Full right to work in the UK and hold a UK driving license.
- Qualified within an engineering discipline 2:1 or above.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience working within a similar capacity.
The Benefits
Joining our client will offer you a wide range of benefits. You'll take pride in working at one of the UK's most remarkable sites, where personal development and continuous improvement are central to everything they do. Personal development can take many forms, but here, it could include technical growth and progression into senior positions, such as principal engineer. You’ll be given the responsibility and empowerment to stretch your problem-solving abilities, satisfying the natural curiosity being an engineer brings.
If you feel like you are the right quality assurance engineer for this role and would like to hear more about, please press apply, call Ashton on (phone number removed) or email your CV too (url removed)
ATA Recruitment specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and general Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis – for more opportunities like this one, visit our website
ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
