Quality Engineer

Country: United Kingdom 
City: Sheffield 
Req ID: 504325
 

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About the role 

We're currently looking to recruit an ambitious and enthusiastic Quality Engineer to join our SHEQ team based at our Sheffield site. 

You'll take an active role in maintaining the QA and SHE functions in the Sheffield factory and offices, maintaining approvals to ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001 and EN1090 via external audits and where relevant, provide support to ensure that we maintain individual product approvals.

In addition, you'll proactively engage with all stakeholders, ensuring that our Quality and SHE systems support and align with our products and services, so that they meet the expectations of our customers at all times, whilst maintaining high standards of safety with the aim of continual improvement and the strive for zero accidents.

Main responsibilities

In this role you'll:

• Maintain and audit the quality, health, safety and environmental management systems in accordance with ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001. Maintain the internal audit schedule for all systems and ensure timely close out of all non-conformances raised. 
• Ensure all teams, production processes and products adhere to the appropriate QA standards and SHE systems via active liaison and face to face interaction
• Engineer in Quality for all production processes through to finished product. Set and maintain the final customer quality shipping standard. Support manufacturing and design problem solving, demonstrating effective root cause analysis to close out quality concerns and sources of error. Take immediate containment actions and provide quick resolution to in process related quality problems and defects
• Address and close out customer related complaints to prevent recurrence. Monitoring trends in customer complaints to ensure relevant improvements can be established
• Maintain calibration of all essential checking and measuring equipment on site, ensuring it is fit for purpose and traceable to international calibration standards 
• Actively liaise with the purchasing and goods inwards teams to ensure adequate monitoring of suppliers, quality of incoming raw materials and address raw material non-conformances in timely fashion
• Assist other members of the team and production front line leaders in day to day maintenance of health & safety and environmental management systems including aiding production of risk assessments and safe systems of work
• Assist in the maintenance of EN1090, including maintaining relevant qualifications and procedure approvals for our welders and welded items
• Assist during third party audits, leading audits where required 
• Develop QA/ manufacturing / ITP plans as required for specific special projects, as well as any specific SHE requirements including risk assessments or safe systems of work involved with the project
• Liaise with other Leviat UK sites to maintain system alignment, perform audits of the sites and to ensure shared best practices. (This will include occasional travel to other sites)
• Lead from the front in adhering to all health & safety systems and protocols. A “best in class” level of compliance is essential
• Abide by all other company polices 
• Contribute to inter-Co CRH projects as required
• Carry out other reasonable tasks for which you have been trained and are capable.
• Assist with visits to customer sites as required to investigate and resolve quality related issues
• Assist in implementing any new future standards as deemed appropriate by our customers/market

Experience & qualifications

To be successful in this role you'll need:

• Experience in working in manufacturing sector quality assurance
• Experience and working knowledge of ISO9001:2015, ISO14001:2015 and ISO45001
• A qualification in internal auditing
• To be competent in MS Office suite.
• The ability to work on multiple tasks and work cross-functionally to identify issues and implement solutions and improvements
• Experience of RCFA techniques eg: “5 why”, “fishbone diagrams” etc 

Desirable

• Experience of working in a metal fabrication environment
• Experience of welding standards and approvals
• A qualification in lead auditing 
• An understanding of Lean processes
• NEBOSH general certificate or equivalent
• Practical experience of implementing SHE systems, performing risk assessments, producing safe systems of work etc
• Knowledge of waste streams, energy conservation and environmental management principles

What we offer?

• We are a global business, looking to attract and retain the best talent
• A culture that values opportunity for growth, development and internal promotion
• Highly competitive base pay
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid and flexible working dependent on your role
• A range of other benefits, specific to your role and depending on where in the world you join us i.e. health care, medical insurance, discounted shopping
• Ongoing personal learning and development support

Leviat is an equal opportunities employer. We are commited to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please note that we cannot accept any applications submitted through email for GDPR purposes. Candidates must apply through our job portal. We do not accept candidate introductions for this position from recruitment agencies, unless you have been instructed to do so by our recruitment team.