Quality Engineer

Immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere of our cutting-edge Stockport manufacturing site, the heartbeat of revolutionary water-based fire suppression devices distributed worldwide. As a Quality Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of cultivating a culture that champions excellence from the very start. Your role involves conducting technical work dedicated to ensuring the quality and compliance of materials, products, and processes with established specifications and global standards.

Why It's Exciting:

• Innovative Impact: Dive into the excitement of new product innovation and machinery implementation, contributing to a multifunctional team that is redefining industry standards.


• Global Reach: Be part of a team that supplies crucial fire suppression devices to major buildings globally, making a difference in safety on a worldwide scale.


• Collaborative Culture: Work seamlessly within a multifunctional team to not only deliver top-notch quality during innovation but also to foster and strengthen relationships with customers and suppliers.


• World-Class Standards: Support the local implementation of the Worldwide Johnson Controls Management System (JCMS), ensuring that we adhere to the highest standards across the board.


How You'll Make a Difference:

• Continuous Improvement Champion: Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance systems and controls, ensuring effective classification, segregation, and quarantine of conforming and non-conforming products.


• Meticulous Inspection: Take charge of the effective inspection and control of supplier products, implementing weekly testing and swift identification and segregation of non-conforming products.


• Optimized Functions: Manage and optimize inspection and measurement functions to guarantee that our products meet technical specifications and adhere to quality standards set by the company.


• Quality Management System Expert: Support the Quality Management System for the entire site, maintaining ISO 9001 certification and ensuring compliance with the highest industry standards.


• Customer-Centric Solutions: Handle customer complaints by leading investigations and implementing corrective and preventative actions, utilizing Lean Tools such as Fishbone and 5 WHY.


• Key Contributor: Play a pivotal role in KPI analysis, maintain Quality-owned documents, facilitate internal audits, and provide invaluable support during New Product Introductions.
  
  3-5 years of experience in a quality engineer role.


• Degree qualified in Chemistry, Engineering, or a relevant science, or equivalent level qualification/experience.


• Proven experience with notified bodies/approval/audit agencies.


• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 with experience in preparing and leading audits.


• Familiarity with engineering drawings, machining, assembly processes, and tolerances.


• Six Sigma Green Belt certification.


• Expertise in investigating non-conformances and closing out NCRs using 8D methodology.


• Proficient in working with data and various statistical tools to reduce daily non-conformities.


• Excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization.


• Ability to work collaboratively as a key team member, training and building the quality team.


• Qualified and experienced internal auditor.


• Experience in handling customer complaints with a hands-on approach to problem-solving.


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• Competitive salary and overtime rates


• Paid holidays and sick pay - 25 days of holiday plus all bank holidays


• Comprehensive benefits package including pension matched contribution, life assurance, employee assistance program, employee referral scheme, employee discounts including high street brands, cycle 2 work scheme and discount on Johnson Controls security products


• Extensive on the job/cross training opportunities with outstanding resources available


• Encouraging and collaborative team environment


• Access to business resource groups


• Training on our company values and products


• Company equipment to complete all jobs


• Long term career development