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Quality Engineer
Assignment Type: Temporary, ongoing basis where you will be engaged via Hays
Location: Chichester
Working Environment: Hybrid, part office based on site at client offices/part home based
Pay type: Competitive hourly pay rate

Quality Engineer, Chichester, Competitive Hourly Rate, leading Automotive company

Our Client
The World's pre-eminent super-luxury automotive brand based in Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, which comprises its global headquarters and Global Centre of Luxury Manufacturing Excellence.

The Role
Everything starts with passion at our luxurious automotive client. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives them to keep reinventing mobility and to bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a department into a strong team where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work are united that they can shape the future together. An exciting opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join our client on an ongoing long term temporary assignment for an approximate duration of 12 months (rolling, reviewed annually).
The Quality Engineer role sits within the Quality and Technical Planning team. The team is responsible for steering of the quality assurance activities in the Wood Shop during product and process development pre-launch and during series build.

Key accountabilities will include:

• creating and maintaining of measurement plans
• inspection instructions and quality standards.
• Creation and maintenance of Control Plans and support of FMEA activities.
• Audit preparation and support and measurement system analysis (MSA).
• Steer implementation of best practice for new product introduction and series solutions to minimise and eradicate defects.
• Capability Studies and prioritisation and steering of problems within PQM at RK0 and RK1. Design, procurement and implementation of checking aids, metrology fixtures etc

What you will need to succeed

• Qualified engineer to degree or HND level in Quality/Production/Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent.
• Background in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering & Statistics.
• Significant relevant experience (3 years plus) within automotive industry. (OEM or 1st tier Supply Chain) - 3 Familiar with international quality standard ISO/TS16949
• Experienced user in quality methods (SPC, MSA, Control Plan, FMEA, Cap. studies)
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Interpreting engineering drawings and measurement reports
• High Level of operational flexibility
• Quality tools knowledge
• Knowledge of CAQ systems
• Fluent English is essential.
  Working knowledge of German would be extremely beneficial
• Extensive IT Skills (MS Office)
• Analytical ability/data interrogation
• Able to lead teams and influence others
• Negotiator in a complex environment

Benefits

• Competitive hourly rate along with an annual performance related bonus
• Hybrid working
• Access to a subsidised restaurant
• Hays Go1 training platform which offers a library of over 70,000 courses
• Access to Ben - Offers support across a wide range of topics such as mental health well-being, financial or legal matters
• Local retail and restaurant discounts

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