Overview
Role: SQA Engineer – NPI (12-month fixed term contract)
Location: Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex (Hybrid) / Leamington Spa (Hybrid)
Job ID: 2025-2681
Salary: £45,000 - £65,000 plus benefits
Ricardo’s Performance Products division are seeking a SQA Engineer for an NPI bias role. This division specialises in delivering niche volume products and consultancy across a range of industries to many premium brand customers.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone wishing to apply their Supplier Quality Assurance experience and knowledge in a dynamic mixed manufacturing & consultancy environment, delivering world class products globally across a range of technologies and market sectors including Automotive, Marine, Rail, Aerospace & Green Propulsion.
Job Description
* As an NPI Parts/Supplier Quality Engineer you will be responsible for the quality of purchase parts, from concept to series production for the suppliers and projects you are assigned. Working as part of a team on designated projects, traveling in the UK and overseas your key objectives will include:
* Auditing suppliers and contributing to the nomination process.
* Supplier Quality Assurance activities within the supply chain including: APQP, PPAP, and surveillance visits leading to launch.
* Creating and managing customer quality requirements that can be cascaded to the supply chain.
* Generating goods receiving inspection documents for pre-production and production phases.
* Series process and part approval at product launch.
* Working closely with procurement, design, and system engineers to achieve parts that are cost effective, fit for purpose and to the required quality standard.
* Proactive & reactive supplier improvement activities, including problem resolution of parts quality issues using 8D and other automotive industry tools.
* Contributing to the parts quality implications of product and process changes.
* Actively participating in continuous improvement by developing and introducing new quality focused processes and procedures to Ricardo.
Relevant Experience and Personal Attributes
* Experience of NPI and/or Supplier Quality Assurance or a similar role where skills can be transferred into the objectives described above. Preferably gained within the automotive sector but other industries would be considered.
Essential
* APQP/PPAP.
* Experience with various manufacturing processes and components (e.g. casting, machining, moulding, assembly, fabrications) and measurement techniques.
* Experience and understanding of geometric design & tolerancing.
* Excellent problem-solving skills.
* Experience of quality systems, quality tools & techniques.
* The ability to work as a team or on your own and be self-motivated.
* A good communicator with intercultural and interpersonal skills together with the ability to communicate and present effectively to suppliers and clients.
* Experienced user of Microsoft office.
* Tenacity, resilience, and focus.
* Flexibility to support regular travel to suppliers/customers domestically & internationally (including EU and USA) and holder of a driving licence.
* Engineering degree or other engineering education qualifications or equivalent experience.
Preferred
* Knowledge of automotive technology and product development.
* Auditor trained to ISO 9001 and or IATF 16949.
* Knowledge of IATF 16949.
* Hands-on experience of lean manufacturing & six sigma.
* Demonstrates the highest integrity and ethical values in dealing with clients, suppliers, and colleagues.
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