Quality Engineer
Location: Bedford
Salary: GBP30,000 - GBP35,000 per year
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5.30pm.
Job type: Full-time, permanent
Bridge Recruitment are helping one of our established clients recruit for an experienced Quality Engineer to join their ever-expanding team. You will be reporting to the Operations Manager being responsible for the quality control within the manufacturing, assembly and dispatch areas.
Responsibilities of the Quality Engineer:
· Actively drive improvements in shopfloor quality through the implementation of formal procedures based on best practice.
· To effectively manage and maintain the sample approval process.
· Carry out internal audits and support purchasing with supplier audits.
· Monitor and support performance improvement through data capture and reporting, including management review meetings.
· Cooperate with purchasing team to establish supplier quality performance criteria and monitor supplier performance.
· Ensure compliance with ISO9001.
· Investigation and reporting of non-conformances.
· Investigation and reporting of Customer Complaints.
· Co-ordinate and control equipment calibration.
· Carry out quality meetings which include documenting quality issues and providing feedback.
· Identify new processes and equipment to streamline production and provide cost reductions.
· To monitor and control local qua...