Quality Engineer, Plymouth
Are you an experienced Quality professional with a desire to expansion your existing skills? If so, we have a motivating and inspiring role available to join our Quality team. In return, we are offering stability and fantastic career progression, with access to training and development.
This is an excellent opportunity to join an integrated team of highly skilled professionals, where you will help ensure the control systems equipment, we deliver worldwide are safe to use and have minimal environmental impact.
As part of our Quality team, you will implement the necessary assurance strategies to promote a quality culture and ensure quality standards whilst working across all divisions of the company. You will provide support and advice on quality assurance (QA) improvement interventions and develop/deliver quality through governance, assurance, and improvement to ISO 9001:2015 requirements and the company’s Quality policy.
Responsibilities:
(This list is to outline the common but not exhausted elements)
- Implementing necessary assurance strategies for QA on behalf of Applied Automation’s divisions.
- Carrying out process audits, inspections, investigations, and internal audits, in accordance with the QMS audit plan.
- Providing advice on the integrity and acceptability of QA and deliverables of projects.
- Collaborating with stakeholders on matters relating to quality their assurance.
- Using appropriate methods to assess supplier capability and performance and to identify and analyse quality-related risk, failure and non-conformance.
- Supporting the development of team members including graduates and apprentices by offering advice and guidance when needed.
At Applied Automation you will have unparalleled opportunities to learn and develop as a professional engineer and will be actively supported and encouraged in this respect. Training is readily available, invested in and essential to stay up to date with new techniques.
Person Specification:
To be successful with your application, you will need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:
- Demonstrable experience in industry/manufacturing and quality assurance, gained from involvement with multiple projects, including supply chain engagement.
- Engineering, industry and/or manufacturing experience from a quality environment (such as quality control, quality assurance, auditing, or similar).
- Desirable - Hold a minimum of a HNC (e.g., Level 4 or higher) qualification in a relevant Engineering or Science subject, or will demonstrate equivalent experience.
In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:
- Technical Requirements, Evaluation & Acceptance.
- Technical Risk Management.
- Communicating and influencing.
- Making effective decisions.
Benefits:
- 25 days’ annual leave, and 8 bank holidays
- Access to specialist training and funded professional qualifications
- Support for progression
- Enhanced parental leave schemes
So, whether you are looking for a new opportunity, a next step, or a helping hand as you return from a career break, here you will find a supportive, family-friendly organisation to be a part of. If you need any assistance with your application, just let us know –