Manufacturing Quality Engineer

£38,750

Cardiff

Monday - Friday - Finish 12:30pm on a Friday!

Yolk Recruitment has a new opportunity for a Manufacturing Quality Engineer to join an international business who are leading competitors within their industry.

This role reports directly to the Manufacturing Manager and you will be a key part of improving quality in the production team.

What you will be doing as Manufacturing Quality Engineer:

• To drive and manage all quality improvement activities to achieve daily production plan.
• Adhere to all EHS and quality requirements and lead quality improvements and sustainability across all production areas.
• Coach and mentor, all levels of the Production Teams from Team Leader to Operator, to improve existing processes and drive a 'quality-mindset' and 'right-first-time' approach throughout the team.
• Introduce Quality KPI's that promote continuous improvement activities and hold meetings with the supervisor teams to review results and implement countermeasures to drive quality improvements both internally and for the customer.
• Ensure all production operators are trained / cross-trained to the required standard to improve production quality and promote a competent workforce.
• Provide strategic quality plans for all production areas to improve quality performance with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Working closely with Engineering & Manufacturing Design to promote a 'poka-yoke' (mistake-proofing or inadvertent error prevention) strategic approach to improving our current processes and new model introduction driving this approach at the Design for Manufacturing & Pre-Production stages.
• Introduce Quality & Process Audits and develop the team's approach to sustain the required production & quality standards in order to produce all products 'right-first time' and minimize the need to rework completed products and produce defects throughout our processes.
• Lead investigations and countermeasure implementations for all customer complaints and internal audit failures (IIR's) with a key focus on 'poka-yoke' fixes to prevent reoccurrence.

The skills you will bring as Manufacturing Quality Engineer:

• Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, or related technical degree qualification preferred but not essential.
• Minimum of 5 years' manufacturing experience in a quality or continuous improvement role
• Experience of working in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrate a Continuous Improvement approach and the leading and management of the key improvement tools such as A3 Problem Solving, 5-Why & Brainstorming.
• High degree of flexibility relating to working hours.
• Self-motivated.
• Must be able to demonstrate Team Player.

And this is what you will receive in Return:

• A salary of £38,787
• Early finish Friday's
• Company pension contributions of up to 10%.
• Free parking on site.
• Annual leave entitlement of 24 days (+ bank holidays), increasing up to 30 (+ bank holidays) with length of service.
• Death in service benefit of 4x annual salary.
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, bereavement, adoption, surrogacy, and sickness.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Long Service Awards.
• Exclusive 'Staff Sales' site for Panasonic products.
• Training and development opportunities.

If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to be successful in this Manufacturing Quality Engineer role apply now

*Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.