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Quality Engineer

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  • Location: Usk
  • Salary: Up to £30.41 per hour per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted about 8 hours ago

  • Sector: Defence & Aerospace, Engineering
  • Contact: Lauren Morley
  • Contact Email: l.morley@jamrecruitment.co.uk
  • Duration: 12 Months
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Client: BAE Systems
  • Expiry Date: 02 March 2026
  • Job Ref: BBBH85637_1768836341

Quality Engineer

Glascoed Based

£30.41 an hour Umbrella Inside IR35

12 Month Contract initially.



This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Defence organisations based In Glascoed.

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):

  • Review Shop Floor records (e.g. 'SMDCP' documents), 'First Off' items for Quality Dept. approval, technical specifications, drawings, and endorse Certificates of Conformity as an approved signatory.
  • Perform Internal Audits, support External Audits, and support the development of audit responses and robust corrective actions which prevent identified problems from ever happening again.
  • Monitor and analyse reject, rework, and RFT data, and present information to management
  • Monitor and support non-conformance / quality issue management ('CAR', 'Q1', 'Q2', 'Q3', etc.)
  • Drive and support targeted CI (Continuous Improvement) activities, focussing on

 (A) Reduced Rejects and Costs

 (B) Improved operational workflows, throughput, and efficiency

  • Energise others to engage in improvement activities, and support others in identifying and implementing their own improvements.
  • Support Process Readiness Review (PRR), performing Quality Dept. reviews of process readiness, and supporting the optimisation of the PRR process across the site.
  • Work with Manufacturing Engineering to improve the QMS (Quality Management System)
  • Continually improve your own understanding of lean manufacturing methods, and core tools (including but not limited to: VSM, Root Cause Analysis, 8D, Six Sigma, TOC, MS Excel, Minitab…)

and also encourage and assist in continually improving the knowledge of others across Land UK.

Knowledge:

  • Excellent numeracy and mechanical comprehension.
  • ISO 9001 Internal auditor certification.
  • Experience within a manufacturing environment, preferably of a similarly highly controlled nature (aerospace, automotive, nuclear, medical devices, etc.)

Skills:

  • Ability to produce clear and concise written/visual instructions
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential
  • Excellent numeracy and mechanical comprehension is essential
  • Awareness of company products and safety critical aspects
  • Ability to effectively co-ordinate data collection wherever necessary to inform business decisions
  • Ability to perform detailed data analysis and identify trends in data
  • Knowledge and understanding of how to comprehensively contain quality issues
  • Ability to lead and support root cause analysis and corrective action identification
  • Ability to interrogate technical drawings and specifications

For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.