Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Location: Central Sheffield, 2 days per week home working available

Reports To: Quality Manager , Europe

Hours: 37.5 Monday - Friday

Salary: Up to 40,000

Contract: Fixed term, until January 2026

When it comes to solving the worlds challenges, they start at the very beginning (material science). They combine the worlds elements and push them past today's boundaries. Using deep technical expertise and advanced process technologies, they create tomorrow's possibilities. By modelling to improve a vision, melting consistently to deliver the highest purity and uniformity, forging highly sophisticated components, rolling, finishing, delivering at scale and testing to meet the most exact standards, my Client is a global manufacturer of technically advanced specialty materials and complex components, support diverse markets and industries such as aerospace and Defense, oil & gas, electrical energy, medical, automotive, and other industrial markets worldwide with locations in 57 locations and 17 countries.

The Quality Engineer is responsible for supporting the quality manager, maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction and consistency, ensuring the business meets the required international/industry/customer standards along with various accreditations and customer requirements.

Essential Functions:

Key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Support the retention of key approvals: ISO9001, AS9100, AS9120 etc
• Focal point for all Quality standards (regulatory, customer specific, internal etc)
• Support audit teams to ensure business compliance
• Release authority for products as needed in Europe
• Ensure supply chain compliance processes are in place and being maintained
• Key decision maker in MRB process for any rejects in Europe
• Ensure that customer complaints are reviewed, followed up and answered in a timely manner and that the appropriate root cause corrective actions are put in place
• Key sign off point for NPI in confirming that standards are met (via FAI) and that processes are considered repeatable and production ready
• Validates that training and competency plans for operational teams ensure that necessary standards are met

Role Qualifications:

• Associate's degree in quality, business/marketing, or engineering
• Working knowledge of ISO9001, AS9100 AS9120
• Experience with liaising with certification bodies in context of surveillance / re-cert audits
• Ideally degree qualified in a technical engineering field
• Minimum 5 years experience in a similar role
• Membership / accreditation from professional body highly desirable
• Aerospace / similar industry would be an advantage

Key Leadership Characteristics:

• Organized and engaged leadership. Able to define priorities and focus on areas that add value. Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflows.
• Collaboration - demonstrated ability to work across functions as part of a leadership team. Displays inclusive working practices. Brings people together across functional, geographic, organizational or philosophic boundaries to achieve results as a team and share best practices.
• Change management - has played an integral role in transformational changes. Adept at communicating the organization's vision and working through people to achieve results.
• Integrity and Honesty - Demonstrates the highest degree of integrity with all stakeholders. Looks to create value for employees and shareholders through good corporate citizenry.