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With primary responsibility for day-to-day quality performance within the assembly facility, this role provides hands-on support to production, driving rapid issue resolution, robust process control, and right-first-time outcomes.\nReporting to the QHSE Manager, with a dotted-line to the Product Quality Manager, the role also leads and develops a small team of Quality professionals to ensure effective execution of quality priorities and continuous improvement activities.\nWorking cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, R&D, and Supply Chain, the Quality Engineer ensures that new and existing products meet defined quality standards, supports successful new product introduction, and maintains compliance with the organisation’s Integrated Management System and ISO 9001 requirements.\nThis is a highly visible role requiring strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to influence at all levels to embed a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement throughout the business. Travel within the\nUK is required as part of the role.\nResponsibilities\nProvide hands-on daily quality support to the assembly facility, ensuring issues are identified, contained, escalated, and resolved efficiently to maintain production flow and product quality.\n\nAct as the primary quality contact for production, driving rapid problem-solving and root cause analysis using structured methodologies such as 8D, RCA, and DMAIC, ensuring effective and sustained corrective actions.\n\nLead and develop two Quality professionals, ensuring effective prioritisation, clear accountability, and alignment to business and production objectives, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.\n\nDevelop, implement, and maintain robust process controls, including PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, and MSA, ensuring capable and consistent manufacturing processes.\n\nPerform product inspection and measurement activities to verify conformance to drawings and specifications, supporting both production and supplier validation.\n\nLead and support the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for new products and engineering changes, including developing and maintaining the PPAP system and ensuring supplier compliance.\n\nSupport new product introductions (NPI) to ensure quality standards are achieved at launch and sustained through production, maintaining robustness of product builds.\n\nQualify, approve, and develop suppliers through audits, capability assessments, and risk evaluations, including manufacturing, technological, and HSE considerations.\n\nConduct regular supplier audits and performance reviews, using KPIs to ensure alignment with ADEY expectations for quality and delivery.\n\nManage supplier non-conformances (NCRs), ensuring effective containment, root cause investigation, and implementation of permanent corrective actions.\n\nWork closely with suppliers to reduce variation, scrap, and rework, driving continuous improvement initiatives.\n\nSupport on performance improvement programmes, monitoring key metrics such as PPM and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).\n\nCollaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, R&D, and Supply Chain to ensure effective resolution of quality issues and continuous improvement of processes and products.\n\nSupport customer-specific requirements, providing technical guidance to suppliers and internal teams as needed.\n\nSupport and contribute to the Internal Audit programme, ensuring compliance with the Integrated Management System (IMS) and maintaining ISO 9001 certification.\n\nAssist in external audits and ongoing compliance activities, ensuring business readiness and adherence to quality standards.\n\nProvide clear reporting and communication of quality performance, risks, and improvement activities to the QHSE Manager, Product Quality Manager, and wider business.\n\nThe Person\nExtensive experience in a small to medium lean manufacturing environment with a strong background in supplier quality activity.\n\nHNC in Engineering · Knowledge of ISO 9001 /TS 16949 Management Systems Strong technical background including geometric tolerancing, understanding technical drawings etc.\n\nExperience with PPAPs\n\nProblem solving tools, 8D, 5Ys\n\nExperience of component measurement techniques\n\nExperience using a Coordinate Measuring machine (CMM)\n\nQualified Lead Auditor with experience of supplier and product & process audits\n\nProficient with Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.)\n\nAble to work autonomously with minimal supervision\n\nCan prioritize tasks effectively\n\nThe Benefits\n25 days holiday\n\nPension contribution matched up to 8%\n\nLife Assurance 3x base salary\n\nGenuit sharesave scheme\n\nHere at the Genuit Group we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group’s success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool. 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