Role: Quality Engineer

Location: Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex

Job ID: 2024 - 2607

Salary: £38,000 - £42,000 plus benefits

Ricardo’s Performance Products division are seeking a Quality Engineer, responsible for ensuring quality activities and documentation are compliant to customer and QMS requirements.

Key accountabilities

• Running the internal APQP cross-functionally to ensure quality deliverables are met.
• Ensuring conformity to customer and QMS requirements by creating, reviewing, maintaining, and updating QMS documentation, processes, and procedures.
• Maintaining the quality concern tracking, providing regular reports, review and reporting on quality KPIs.
• Investigating quality related matters from customers, manufacturing, and continual improvement processes.
• Use problem-solving techniques to carry out quality investigations, ensuring conformity to customer and QMS requirements.
• Provide support to all functions with the progression of continual improvement actions.
• Update and maintain production documentation, such as PFMEA, Process Flows and Control Plans, to standardize and close quality investigations.
• Support QHSE workstreams.
• Point of contact for customers on quality matters.
• Carry out product and process audits.
• This role offers exposure to all areas of the business, working collaboratively with all functions to drive and deliver improvement.
• The nature of the role offers the opportunity to influence our processes and ways of working by identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective action

Technical skills, experience, and knowledge

• Relevant engineering degree or equivalent technical qualification and/or experience.
• Experienced in automotive (or similar) manufacturing.
• Problem solving techniques and knowledge of continual improvement.
• Strong organisational skills and able to meet deadlines.
• Good level of IT skills, particularly MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint.
• Understanding of core tools such as PPAP, APQP, FMEA, MSA and SPC.

Desirable

• Working to IATF:16949 2016 standards.
• Experience with internal audit.

Behaviours

• High personal standards of integrity and the drive to achieve a robust solution.
• Comfortable communicator - ability to communicate effectively with engineering and operational staff, from shop floor to senior management level, including with external clients and suppliers.
• Proactive in leading investigations and resolving issues – confidence in delivering tasks on time and to a high standard
• Organised, with an ability to multi-task - Able to assess, prioritise and respond accordingly. 

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 to 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 as explained here. 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 pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a 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.