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QUALITY ENGINEER

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Join Our Team and Excel in Quality Engineering!

We are where precision meets innovation. As a leading player in the manufacturing sector, we're expanding our team and seeking an adept Engineering Estimator. With a salary range of £30,000 - £35,000, along with a plethora of benefits including comprehensive training, career progression opportunities, and more, this role offers a rewarding career path.

About Us

With a stable and successful trajectory, we pride ourselves on our commitment to excellence and continuous expansion. Joining our team as a Quality Engineer means becoming part of a dynamic environment where growth and progression are not just encouraged but actively supported. As part of a collaborative team, you'll have ample opportunities to hone your skills and advance in your career.

Benefits and Perks:

  • 25 Days holiday
  • £30,000 - £35,000 salary (negotiable to the right candidate)
  • Bank Holidays
  • Service-Related Holiday Bonus Scheme
  • Company Pension (matched 6%)
  • Comprehensive Training
  • Monthly Bonus Scheme
  • Overtime
  • Onsite Parking
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Staff Outings and Christmas Parties
  • Annual Pay Increases 
  • Christmas Bonus

Quality Engineer Duties:

  • Support the quality department to ensure products and processes are up to the company’s quality standards.
  • Support departments to improve quality and minimise cost while implementing improvements.
  • Encourage a team environment and implement best practises that emphasis on defect prevention.

Required Skills and Experience for a Quality Engineer:

  • Have previously worked in a fast-paced environment (i.e. Automotive.)
  • Used previous problem-solving techniques (8D / 5 Why / Ishikawa etc)
  • Have auditing experience and hold an IATF16949 standard.
  • Have knowledge with core tools – MSA / SPC / ISIR and HD&T Principles.
  • Awareness and preferable usage of Six Sigma Techniques.
  • QMS Experience.
  • Metrology and CMM experience.
  • Engineering drawings and tolerances.
  • Preferred to have working experience with welding / pressings / laser cutting but not necessary. 

Commutable from – Wolverhampton / Wombourne / Dudley / West Bromwich / Oldbury / Cannock / Stourbridge / Halesowen / Burntwood

Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Our aim is to help you secure the best possible future for yourself & this is a totally FREE service to all our Candidates.

If you believe that your skills and experience match what we are looking for please call me or APPLY and I will be in touch.

Should you want to learn more about any of our QUALITY vacancies, or should you just want to discuss your particular needs, then please do not hesitate to contact me by phone or email, to have an informal, confidential chat.

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Quality Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994

SIMILAR JOBS

 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a QUALITY MANAGER.

We are a busy high volume manufacturing organisation, with a real family feel.  You would be joining an established, friendly Quality team.

You may be already a Quality Manager who is looking to move to a new challenge where you can make a genuine impact, or, you may be a Senior Quality Engineer who is looking for that next step up to Quality Manager

Commutable from: Birmingham, Solihull, Dudley, Halesowen, Walsall, Brownhills, Telford, Wolverhampton, Sutton Coldfield, Aston, West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Moseley

Key Benefits on Offer:

  • Salary: £45,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Busy manufacturing organisation
  • Excellent long-term prospects
  • Lunchtime Friday finish

Quality Manager responsibilities:

  • Responsibility for the maintenance and improvement of IATF 16949, ISO9001 and ISO14001
  • Produce FMEA’s for review for the APQP team
  • Control Plans
  • Gauge design involvement and procurement, along with the creation of calibration and operating instructions
  • MSA studies to ensure gauges are fit to used again
  • PPAP submissions
  • Capability studies using SPC
  • Ability to use a variety of measuring equipment as well as the operation of CMM / Faro arm scanning
  • 8D’s
  • Supplier concerns and performance
  • Internal audits

Quality Manager Requirements:

  • RELEVANT Quality Management or Senior Quality Engineering experience
  • Strong knowledge of Quality tools, such as APQQ, SPC, Control Plans and FMEA
  • To have gained experience within a continuous improvement culture
  • Preferably you will have gained your experience within a high-volume manufacturing organisation
  • Exposure to IATF 16949
  • Internal auditing experienced
  • Experience of supplier and customer liaison

If you would like to be part of a growing success story, where there are unrivalled career prospects for you with truly exciting products, send your CV NOW!

 

A major large manufacturing company in the Coventry area, are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer. This is a key role within an established business, with over 200 sites worldwide.  

We are driving advancements in new technologies solutions for a diversified global market.

Commutable from Birmingham, Nuneaton, Coventry, Tamworth, Burbage, Rugby, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Sutton Coldfield, Lutterworth, Henley in Arden and Solihull

What’s in it for you, as Senior Quality Engineer?

  • Salary: £50,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Employee discount (reward gateway)
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • 25 Days Holiday (Bank Holidays on top)
  • Early Friday finish
  • Company contributory pension
  • Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
  • Modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unlimited Career progression

Requirements for Senior Quality Engineer

  • Significant Quality Engineering experience at a Senior level
  • You will have gained your experience from within high-volume manufacturing
  • Leadership experience
  • Strong knowledge of Quality tools, such as SPC, Control Plans, PPAP submissions, APQP and Containment issues
  • Supplier and customer liaison
  • Excellent auditing abilities
  • This would suit a strong Collaborator, who is keen to utilise your considerable Quality knowledge, in a positive, friendly and supportive environment

Responsibilities for Senior Quality Engineer

  • Provide support to the Quality Manager
  • Manage and improve the current Quality systems 
  • Control Plans and SPC
  • Customer audits
  • Root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions
  • PPAP submissions
  • Champion continuous improvements in Quality
  • PFMEA
  • Containment issues
  • Utilising problem- solving techniques, such as Ishikawa and 5 Why
  • 8D reports
  • Point of contact for customers
  • Gauging and calibration
  • Support NPI
 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a METROLOGY ENGINEER.

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a prestigious, state of the Art manufacturing organisation. Specialising in either high quality off the shelf modules, to individual new developments.  We are very much at the forefront of brand -new technology.

We have been providing pioneering technologies and products to our customers worldwide for a number of years now, out teams are accomplished teams of experts, highly specialised in the development, industrialisation and production.

You may already be a METROLOGY ENGINEER looking for a fresh challenge, within a highly prestigious organisation

Commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Henley-in-Arden, Redditch, Studley, Stratford-upon-Avon, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Moseley, Halesowen and Curdworth 

Key Benefits:

  • Salary: £40,000 - £41,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Currently trialling 4 day week
  • Employee discount (reward gateway)
  • Yearly incentive bonus paid out in December 
  • Long service award after 4 years of service 
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Access to BEN (charity for automotive workers)
  • Flexible start & finish times
  • Death in service (once passed probationary period)
  • 25 Days Holiday (Bank Holidays on top), increasing to 26 days after 1 calendar year, then increasing to 28 after 5 years
  • Company contributory pension
  • Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
  • Pristine and modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unlimited Career progression

Metrology Engineer Responsibilities:

  • Creating CMM programs
  • Evaluate measurement data
  • Creating measurement programs for CMM with or without CAD model
  • Drawing up initial sample test reports as per the VDA and PPAP template
  • Implementing all measurement equipment 
  • Calibration of gauges
  • Re-qualification inspections
  • SPC

Metrology Engineer Requirements:

  • It is essential that you have relevant CMM Programming experience
  • Ideally PC-DMIS
  • To have gained your experience from within a manufacturing environment
  • Good working knowledge of PPAP’s and SPC
  • Good level of IT Literacy

This role will suit an energetic, and ambitious  Metrology Engineer

If you would like to be part of a growing success story, where there are unrivalled career prospects for you with truly exciting products, send your CV NOW!

 

I am pleased to be supporting our industry leading engineering client in their search for a permeant Laboratory Technician.

  • £28,000 - £32,000
  • 25 Days annual Leave + Bank Holiday
  • Company Pension
  • Life Assurance Scheme

The Laboratory Technician role is perfect for a candidate with product testing experience within manufacturing or R&D environments.

As Laboratory Technician you will be working closely with the global R&D department on-site to support new products gaining regulatory approval ahead of manufacture.

To successfully meet the Laboratory Technician role requirements, you should have previous exposure to metal engineered products, writing test reports and using measuring equipment.

Role outline:

  • Testing of products and reporting of outcomes.
  • Creation of test rigs and setup of equipment.
  • Maintain and update product approval information.

Experience:

  • Related engineering qualification e.g. apprenticeship or ONC
  • Worked within R&D or testing assistant.
  • Use of testing equipment & tools

This role is open to Quality Systems Engineers, Quality Engineers, Quality Auditors, Technical Engineers, and other quality system management related professionals.

If you are interested in this Laboratory Technician role, please apply today for more information and be sure to leave your contact details.

Commutable from: Dudley, Kingswinford, Brierley Hill, Wombourne, Wolverhampton, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, Bridgenorth, Bilston, Wednesbury.

 

Company

With nearly 50 years of experience behind them, this is a global company that continues to grow, having doubled in size over the last five years. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry.  The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted. They are big advocates of personal development, growth and progression, with many success stories of this across the company. 

Supplier Quality and Compliance Manager Salary, Hours and Benefits

  • £45,000 - £50,000
  • 37.5 hours per week, with some flexibility and an early Friday finish
  • The chance to join a very successful and growing business
  • Up to 10.5% company pension
  • Company bonus
  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Cash health plan
  • A modern, forward-thinking place to work

Commutable From: Wolverhampton, Walsall, Telford, Shrewsbury, Birmingham

Supplier Quality and Compliance Manager Candidate Requirements / Key Responsibilities

  • Factory/supplier audit, assessment and approval – ideally lead auditor qualified / experienced
  • Supplier improvement & development
  • Monitor and stay abreast of global regulatory compliance requirements
  • Evaluation of performance against regulatory compliance requirements
  • Defining AQLs and DCLs internally and with suppliers
  • Factory QC training
  • Staff technical training
  • Control of non-conforming products
  • Customer focussed approach
  • Willingness to travel (up to 10% of the role will include travel)
  • Technical / Engineering capability 
  • Developing factory capabilities
  • Verification of product specification 
  • Identification of compliance criteria
  • Inspection standard generation/negotiation
  • People management of small team
  • Experienced in multi-site operations
 

We are looking for an experienced QUALITY ENGINEER.

This is an exciting time to be part of this expanding Organisation. This is a fast paced, dynamic working environment, no 2 days are ever the same! If you are a Quality Engineer, who is looking to be part of a friendly, supportive team, where your prospects would be assured, look no further!
You would be working in the plant Quality team, maintaining and improving product quality, and follow and enhance the existing quality systems. 

Commutable from: Stoke on Trent, Uttoxeter, Market Drayton, Eccleshall, Leek, Congleton, Sandbach, Ashbourne, Stone, Stafford, Nantwich, 

Key Benefits:

  • Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Company Pension
  • 25 Days holiday plus stats on top
  • Fast, dynamic manufacturing environment
  • High staff retention
  • Friendly supportive team
  • Long term excellent prospects

Quality Engineer Responsibilities:

  • Conduct both internal IATF, quality & process audits
  • Support the engineering change process through weekly meetings and be responsible for APQP requirements.
  • Support annual testing schedule for all our products using an external laboratory. 
  • Support NPI
  • Control and manage internal non-conforming parts/supplier rejects, system and non-conforming material area 
  • Support with new projects throughout the APQP process as plant quality representative. 
  • Support the other departments with 8D resolution of quality issues
  • Scrap reduction
  • Control and manage the calibration schedule of all internal equipment through internal inspections & external calibration services. 
  • Support manufacturing, co-ordinate internal product/process improvement. •
  • Monitor internal scrap and help conduct scrap improvement activities with the plant team. • 
  • Manage supplier certificates of conformity documentation, monitoring and recording data submitted. 

Quality Engineer Duties:

  • Quality Engineering experience
  • Proven problem-solving abilities using 8D, PPAP’s and APQP
  • Knowledge of ISO9001 and IATF16949
  • Auditor /Lead Auditor qualification desirable
  • Knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques, such as 5S and Poke Yoke
  • To have the ability to form strong working relationships
  • Customer /Supplier exposure

What are you waiting for? Send your CV for consideration.

 

Join our dynamic team in Quality Assurance Engineer, where precision meets innovation in the medical sector. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the excellence of bespoke parts vital to medical advancements. Embrace the opportunity to contribute your expertise to our cutting-edge projects and make a tangible impact on healthcare worldwide.

Salary and Benefits:

  • £25,000 - £30,000
  • Perks at work – discounts with high street and online retailers.
  • Standard pension
  • Parking on site

Quality Engineer Responsibilities:

  • Completing post-market surveillance reports. Including Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSURs) and Safety and Clinical Performance (SSCPs)
  • Manage clinical data for – Direct feedback from client / Customer complaints / Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) / Vigilance database / Published clinical literature
  • Assist in Clinical Research Organisations (CROs) during clinical investigations.
  • Input into Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs)
  • Report to clinical authorities.
  • Assist in managing QMS by: providing input for customer complaints / Input preventative and corrective actions / Conduct internal audits / Maintain SOPs and other QMS documents. 

Quality Engineer Skills Required:

  • Ability to work with external partners (surgeons)
  • Able to communicate with other departments when needed.
  • Knowledge of ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 820 and the medical device regulations (desired)
  • Create regulatory documentations
  • Assist in maintaining QMS.
  • During external audits, provide appropriate inputs. 

Quality Assurance Engineer role is Commutable from: Bath / Potishead / Keynsham / Nailsea / Yate / Thornbury / Clevedon

 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a QUALITY INSPECTOR.

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a highly prestigious, state of the Art manufacturing organisation. Supplying into a broad range of industry sectors, such as nuclear, we adopt a wide range of different manufacturing processes, such as CNC machining and foundry.

We have been providing pioneering technologies and products to our customers worldwide for a number of years now, out teams are accomplished teams of experts, highly specialised in the development, industrialisation and production.

Commutable from Blackburn, Rochdale, Burnley, Bolton, Preston, Bradford, Keighley, Skipton, Addingham, Clitheroe and Halifax

Key Benefits:

  • Salary: £15.77 per hour
  • 3 shifts – Days , Twilight and Nights – Attracting shift premium between £4.44 and £5.13 per hour)
  • Free parking on site
  • On-site gym – including a climbing wall
  • Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
  • Pristine and modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unlimited Career progression

Quality Inspector Resposibilities:

  • First off and Patrol inspection
  • Contribute to continuous improvements
  • Final view inspection
  • Record and maintain inspection and test records
  • First article inspection reports
  • Support with internal audits
  • Happy to work shifts

Quality Inspector SKills Requirements:

  • Relevant Quality Experience within Quality Inspection
  • To have the ability to read engineering drawings
  • Relevant experience with uses of inspection equipment such as micrometers and verniers
  • Use of CMM would be beneficial but not essential
  • NDT Testing, again, advantageous but not essential as training can be offered
  • Strong work ethic, motivated and keen
  • Enthusiastic to broaden your knowledge and experience
  • A flexible and adaptable approach
  • Happy to work shifts

If you would like to be part of a growing success story, where there are unrivalled career prospects for you with genuinely exciting products, send your CV NOW!

We welcome applications from experienced Quality Inspectors who have the Right to Work in the UK and can demonstrate relevant experience.

If you would like to be part of a growing success story, where there are unrivalled career prospects for you with genuinely exciting products, send your CV NOW!

 

PRODUCTION MANAGER

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a PRODUCTION MANAGER.

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a prestigious, state of the art manufacturing organisation. Specialising in high quality products, we are very much at the forefront of brand -new technology.

We have been providing pioneering technologies and products to our customers worldwide for a number of years now, our teams are accomplished teams of experts, highly specialised in the development, industrialisation and production.

This is a Days role with an early finish on Friday

Commutable from Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Telford, Kidderminster, Halesowen, Dudley, West Bromwich, Walsall,

Cannock, Aldridge, Sutton Coldfield, Erdington and Wednesbury

KEY BENEFITS FOR THE SUCCESFUL PRODUCTION MANAGER

  • Salary: £45,000 - £55,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Unlimited Career progression
  • Extra generous holiday entitlement
  • Lunchtime Friday finish
  • Excellent Pension contributions
  • Very stable, busy manufacturing organisation
  • Friendly, long - standing staff
  • Days position

PRODUCTION MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Overseeing Production Processes: Develop production plans and schedules to meet output demand and quality standards. Ensure efficiency and safety throughout the process.
  • Budget Management: Monitor the production budget, forecast expenses, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
  • Resource Management: Maintain adequate material and equipment supplies, minimize downtime, and achieve targets.
  • Health and Safety: Uphold health and safety standards, train employees, and maintain equipment.
  • Quality Control: Monitor product quality and implement procedures to improve efficiency.
  • Team Management and Communication: Support, train, and manage production teams. Collaborate with other departments to align with company goals.
  • Problem-Solving and Efficiency: Identify and resolve issues to maximize quality, safety, and efficiency.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PRODUCTION MANAGER

  • Significant senior management experience
  • You will have gained your management experience from within manufacturing – Essential
  • Ideally a high - volume production environment
  • Exposure to working in continuous improvement culture
  • A real “can do” attitude, energetic, adaptable and empathetic
  • Happy to work days

This is a wonderful opportunity to join a World Class manufacturing organisation

 

 
 

 

I have a fantastic opportunity for a multi-skilled maintenance engineer to join a heavy, high-volume production site in Bilston near Wolverhampton. My client is well established within its field and produces some big brand products for the likes of Screwfix, B&Q and Wickes. They are looking for a multi-skilled maintenance engineer who will have an understanding of Siemens S7 and have worked in a heavy engineering environment. 

This position would be ideal for someone with plant maintenance skills and a good knowledge of hydraulics and pneumatics. You will be working a continental shift pattern, and you will be paid a lifestyle bonus of £43 for every weekend day worked (excluding overtime). This will take your salary to around £46,729.91. 

Maintenance Engineer Benefits:

  • £44,337.96
  • OT at premium rates (x1.5). 
  • £43 lifestyle payment (paid every rostered weekend day). 
  • Employer contribution pension scheme. 
  • Product specific training. 
  • 23 days holiday. 

Maintenance Engineer Duties include:

  • Continental shift 2 days – 2 nights. 
  • Make improvements to production. 
  • To always maintain manufacturing machinery.
  • To ensure all data recording and feedback is completed accurately and on time. 
  • Preventive maintenance.
  • Installation work where necessary. 
  • To maintain safe working practices at all times. 
  • To undertake training as required.
  • Mechanical and electrical fault finding. 

Maintenance Engineer Requirements include: 

  • Recognised Engineering Qualifications. 
  • Hydraulics and Pneumatics. 
  • Siemens S7 understanding. 
  • Heavy engineering background. 
  • Welding (advantageous). 
  • Strong fault-finding abilities. 

Please apply find out more about this fantastic role. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury. Cannock, Stourbridge, and surrounding areas.

 

The Company

This is a great opportunity with a world leading supplier in their field, who are privately owned and with operations in 20 countries. In the UK, they develop and manufacture bespoke products, with over 90% being exported.

They have this exciting opportunity to become a key member of their dedicated UK external sales team, where you will be responsible for the account management and growth of the business, along with a responsibility for the achievement of turnover and profit margin targets across the Midland’s region.

Please Note: The Area Sales Manager must have proven sales experience within either; Instrumentation, Sensors, Valves, Pumps, Pneumatics or similar.

Area Sales Manager Package and Benefits

  • £50,000 + bonus
  • Company car
  • Work from home role
  • 37.5 hours, 8:30am – 5:15pm, 1:00pm finish on Friday’s (with flexible hours)
  • 24 days holiday, increasing with service, plus paid birthday leave
  • Life Assurance 4x salary, enhanced sick pay, private medical insurance, professional subscriptions

Area Sales Manager Candidate Requirements

  • Proven sales experience within either; Instrumentation, Valves, Pumps, Pneumatics or similar. 
  • ONC in Electrical / Instrumentation (highly advantageous but not essential).
  • Degree in Engineering would be advantageous.
  • A clean driving license.
  • Has a good proven track record of field sales background.
  • Strong negotiating skills and capacity.
  • Ability and willingness to follow instructions of management and respond to requests from others in the team in a helpful manner.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Area Sales Manager Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the market share within allocated geographic areas, industries or accounts in the Midland’s region.
  • Develop and expand on a long-term basis certain nominated and parent company established Global accounts within the area of responsibility.
  • Continuous focus, action and target setting for developing new business and building new customer bases in the Midlands region.
  • Accountable for the establishment of both annual and monthly sales objectives in coordination with the Company’s strategic plan.
  • Follow-up leads generated by marketing activities.
  • Implementation of the sales and marketing plans.
  • Assist in the reporting and forecasting functions monthly, as well as assisting in the reporting, controlling, forecasting, and managing of the allocated industries and accounts within the areas of responsibility.
  • Provide an Industry and product reporting package as determined by Company Management.
  • Expected to be knowledgeable of market and industry trends, competitors, and leading customer strategies. 
  • Maintain appropriate data and information on the company CRM system 
  • Other duties as determined by the Regional Sales Manager.