Senior Quality Engineer

• Join a highly visible quality leadership role where you'll drive critical improv
• Influence product quality, manufacturing excellence, and continuous improvement

About Our Client

Our client is a well-established advanced manufacturing organisation supplying highly engineered products into regulated and technically demanding industries. The company offers a collaborative environment where quality and innovation are central to operational success and long-term growth.

Job Description

Product & Process Quality

• Lead investigations into product non-conformances, customer concerns, and manufacturing quality issues using structured root cause methodologies.
• Drive CAPA activities from identification through implementation and effectiveness verification.
• Analyse quality metrics, scrap rates, yield performance, and defects to identify trends and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to improve process capability and increase first-pass yield.

Customer & Compliance Support

• Act as the primary quality representative for customer audits, corrective actions, and technical quality enquiries.
• Participate in customer visits and support technical discussions related to quality performance.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.

Quality Systems & Auditing

• Oversee quality system processes including CAPA, non-conformance management, material review activities, and returns processes.
• Support internal, customer, and third-party audits, including preparation and corrective action responses.
• Maintain and enhance quality documentation, risk assessments, and process control strategies.

Validation & Risk Management

• Lead validation activities for manufacturing processes and equipment, including IQ, OQ, and PQ protocols.
• Develop and review PFMEAs, control plans, and risk assessments.
• Implement effective process controls and monitoring systems to ensure product quality.

Continuous Improvement

• Utilise statistical tools and data analysis techniques to support process improvement initiatives.
• Develop quality performance reporting and dashboards.
• Lead projects focused on scrap reduction, process stability, and operational excellence.

Supplier Quality & Technical Support

• Support supplier quality improvement initiatives and issue resolution activities.
• Improve measurement systems through MSA, GR&R studies, and calibration programmes.
• Provide technical guidance on inspection methods, metrology, and quality standards.

Leadership

• Mentor quality professionals and provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams.
• Facilitate problem-solving efforts for complex quality challenges.
• Drive accountability and quality-focused decision making throughout the organisation

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.


The Successful Applicant

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of quality engineering experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting aerospace, medical device, or similarly regulated industries is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of CAPA, MRB, NCMR, and quality management systems.
• Proven experience with root cause analysis methodologies such as 8D, DMAIC, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with SPC, DOE, capability analysis, Minitab, or similar statistical tools.
• Knowledge of validation activities including IQ, OQ, and PQ.
• Experience working within ISO 13485 and/or AS9100 environments.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) certification is preferred.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple functions and operate independently

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to take ownership of high-impact quality initiatives and influence business performance.
• Exposure to customer-facing quality leadership and regulatory compliance activities.
• Work in a technically challenging manufacturing environment with advanced products and processes.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, operations, and leadership teams.
• Career progression potential within a company that prioritises quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Contact

Bridget Petti

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