Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 6am to 6pm Benefits: Holidays Pension Health Cash Plan Employee Referral Scheme Long Service Awards Free Parking Free Hot Drinks Purpose of role and key accountabilities: - To provide Quality and Inspection support for both existing and new business opportunities and to develop the Right First-Time philosophy required to become a leading supplier of quality components to the aerospace industry - Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process, in line with business standards and customer requirements - Check and verify the compliance of components produced at all stages within business - First article inspection procedures - Identify reoccurring quality issues and communicate them to the chief inspector along with recommendations - Assist in the 5Y quality procedure and produce rout cause analysis of product failures - Incorporate standardisation of jigs, fixtures and tooling wherever possible - Non-conformance procedures - Represent quality function at team meetings - Support, develop and improve the relationship with our quality contacts within our customer base - Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit our products and manufacturing processes - To work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required. - To support, develop, maintain and improve the company’s quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system - To control calibration activity of all instrument on regular basis - To conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and techniques to ensure that the manufacturing processes meet customer requirements Core skills/attributes needed: Previous Internal auditing experience Experienced in an engineering background Ability to interpret engineering drawings and specifications Technical knowledge & experience within the aerospace sector preferred Competent in using the following equipment; verniers, micrometres, bore micrometers, height gauges, DTI (Digital Test Indicators); Experience in a quality control environment preferred Provide 1st Article Inspection Reports Working to ISO 9001 and ISO 5001 Experience of Machining / Fabrications and Treatments Attention to detail Ability to work on own initiative and with minimum supervision CMM experience advantageous but not essential Experience in lean tools such as 8D, Kaizen (Continues Improvement) processes Chemical and special processes knowledge Aerospace manufacturing background ideally specific NADCAP experience New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP PPAP Awareness Practical Problem Solving skills Excellent IT Skills