Job Description

OVERVIEW & SCOPE OF ROLE

The purpose of this role is to assure the quality of products throughout the product lifecycle.

This role will support the product lifecycle quality assurance through the complete production process, taking responsibility for ensuring that processes and procedures are in place and adhered to in relation to product quality.

This role will be inside IR35

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & REPONSIBILITIES

Technical Responsibilities:

• Responsible for carrying out inspections of parts and assemblies to drawing and process requirements. - Across site on any project
• Spot-checking of operators to confirm operator compliance to MMs.
• Raise non-conformance forms and support investigations into technical issues as required.
• Inspect / approve rework
• Manage own workload, liaising with the relevant cell leaders to identify and complete inspections in a timely manner.
• Generate, Collate, update and maintain and complete FAIR using Visual Fair as requested
• Creation and Management of CMM Programs, Probes and Software updates.
• Problem solve CMM errors, issues, collisions.
• Operate CMM machines in line with business needs
• Conduct manual inspections using hand tools (micrometres, height gauges, shadowgraph) to verify that parts and assemblies meet required specifications.
• Create inspection methods for underdefined or non-standard inspections
• Conduct Audits where requested i.e. Flash, Internal, supplier
• Collaborate with Quality Engineers, Production Engineering and Design Authority to improve processes when required

Additional Duties:

• Internally recognised as having appropriate expertise and experience
• Provide coaching and mentoring to new inspectors (knowledge sharing for progression potential within the team) as well as individuals employed in the operational areas for in-production quality requirements.
• Lead improvement projects as required
• Maintains and actively promotes the organisation's values, consistently demonstrating expected behaviours

EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND

Qualifications:

Essential - Apprenticeship level or equivalent in an engineering discipline
Desirable - Internal Auditor AS/EN9100 trained

Essential Experience:

• Quality inspection within a manufacturing/engineering industry
• FAIR generation and collation
• Ability to read and interpret GD&T/engineering drawings
• Problem solving skills

Desirable Experience:

CMM operation/programming
Experience of using root cause analysis tools (8Ds, 5 Whys etc)

Person Specification

• Ability to work in a diverse and dynamic environment
• Performance driven and self-motivated
• Strong planning and prioritising activities
• Good communication and interpersonal skills at all levels of the organisation
• Ability to present data effectively
• Problem-solving skills
• Analytical skills
• Team player