Role: Senior SQA Engineer NPI
Location: Shoreham-by-Sea (Shoreham Technical Centre)
Job ID: 2024 - 2456
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 plus benefits
Ricardo plc is a world-leader in electrified transport engineering and sustainable mobility solutions.
Ricardo’s Performance Products division are seeking a Senior SQA Engineer to support New Product Introduction projects. This division specialises in delivering niche volume products and consultancy across a range of industries to many premium brand customers.
Key accountabilities
As a Senior 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. 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 series 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.
* Management of supplier quality performance, including verification and implementation of corrective actions in the pre-series phase.
* Managing the parts quality implications of product and process changes.
* Reporting status against project targets internally and customer facing.
* Supervising and coaching of the SQA Engineering team also deployed on these projects.
* Actively participating in continuous improvement by developing and introducing new quality focused processes and procedures to Ricardo.
Preferred skills and experience
* Experience of NPI and/or Supplier Quality Assurance or a similar role preferably gained within the automotive sector.
* Achieving 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.
* Experienced user of Microsoft Office.
* Tenacity, resilience, and focus.
* Flexibility to support regular travel to suppliers/customers domestically & internationally and holder of a driving licence.
* Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
Desirable
* Knowledge of automotive technology and product development.
* Lead 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.
* Ability to self-manage and demonstrate resilience/robustness when working to challenging targets.
Working with Ricardo
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Wellbeing and work life balance
Wellbeing is at the core of our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programs and policies that support individuals including flexible working, careers policy, mental health first aiders, and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance program.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.
Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and proactively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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