Industrial Manufacturing Auditor
Posted 3 days ago by Endeavour Recruitment
£35 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
BOLTON, UK
Summary: The Industrial Manufacturing Auditor role involves providing Quality Assurance support to the supply chain team, focusing on mechanical and electro-mechanical suppliers. The position requires effective management of supplier non-conformances and conducting quality audits to ensure compliance with customer requirements. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience in quality assurance within the defense, aerospace, or automotive industries. This contract position is hybrid, requiring two days a week on-site work in Bolton or Stevenage.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure effective management of supplier non-conformances across supporting manufacturing teams with defect investigations.
- Lead root cause analysis of supplier product non-conformances using industry-wide problem-solving methods.
- Ensure Supplier corrective actions are effective and validated, ideally at supplier location, to ensure future deliveries are protected from further escapes.
- Provide non-conformance data analysis and summary reports into engineering/senior management and customer reviews.
- Identify Quality issues/risks relating to potential risks for project milestone achievement, and for quality of deliverables. Identify and offer potential mitigation solutions.
- Participate in the Project Quality network to report and share the quality assurance status.
- Support ME development projects ensuring compliance to Industrial Validation milestones.
- Conduct Quality audits/assessments in line with the surveillance plan and against the Suppliers contracted Quality requirements, reviewing the Supplier's corrective action progress, conducting product acceptance, with the aim of reducing project risk.
- Opportunity to identify process improvements to aid on time and on quality delivery of products during the product life cycle.
Key Skills:
- HNC or HND in Engineering.
- Auditor certified, preferably trained to AS9100.
- Experienced quality professionals, preferably within Mechanical or Electronic Engineering with a proven track record in Product Assurance.
- Practitioner of current QA problem-solving and improvement methods (8D, RCA, DMAIC, etc.).
- Good knowledge of the product life cycle - specifically in development.
- Strong analytical skills; ability to run reports in Excel, use SAP QM system, and document management tools.
- Continuous improvement awareness and ability to use own initiative to deliver improvements.
Salary (Rate): £30/hour
City: Bolton
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Industrial Manufacturing Auditor
JOB LOCATION: Bolton/Stevenage
SECURITY: SC - BPSS start
DURATION: 6months + Likely to extend
TYPE: Contract
WORK PATTERN: Hybrid/2 days a week On-Site;
PAY RATE: £30/hr (Umbrella Inside IR35)
Essential QUALIFICATIONS
HNC OR HND
Need to auditor certified
TARGET INDUSTRIES AND COMPANIES. Is Defence a must?
If not what industries can be considered
Ideally defence, aero or automotive
Essential Skillset & Tools
- Trained auditor to AS9100 is essential
GDT
GD anti
CMM/VMM - measurement machine
Root cause methodologies
Overview of Department:
An opportunity has arisen for an Industrial Engineering Auditor professional to join the ISP Procurement team supporting a variety of Mechanical & Electro-Mechanical suppliers
This opportunity provides the chance to work within a new dynamic quality team, your primary responsibility will be to provide Quality Assurance support to the supply chain team to deliver production hardware, while ensuring adherence to our Customer requirements. If you wish to take on a fresh challenge, then come and join our team as we commence our journey.
The Role:
- Ensure effective management of supplier non-conformances across supporting manufacturing teams with defect investigations.
- Lead root cause analysis of supplier product non-conformances using industry wide problem solving methods.
- Ensure Supplier corrective actions are effective and validated, ideally at supplier location, to ensure future deliveries are protected from further escapes
- Provide non-conformance data analysis and summary reports into engineering/senior management and customer reviews.
- Identify Quality issues/risks relating to potential risks for project milestone achievement, and for quality of deliverables. Identify and offer potential mitigation solutions.
- Participate in the Project Quality network to report and share the quality assurance status.
- Support ME development projects ensuring compliance to Industrial Validation milestones
- Conduct Quality audits/assessments in line with the surveillance plan and against the Suppliers contracted Quality requirements, reviewing the Supplier's corrective action progress, conducting product acceptance, with the aim of reducing project risk
- Opportunity to identify process improvements to aid on time and on quality delivery of products during the product life cycle.
What we're looking for from You:
- Ideally minimum HNC/HND in Engineering would be desirable
- Experienced quality professionals, preferably within Mechanical or Electronic Engineering with a proven track record in Product Assurance.
- Practitioner of current QA problem solving and improvement methods (8D, RCA, DMAIC, etc.)
- Good knowledge of the product life cycle - specifically in development
- Strong analytical skills; ability to run reports in Excel, use SAP QM system, and document management tools
- Continuous improvement awareness and ability to use own initiative to deliver improvements.