Quality Assurance Specialist
Posted 5 days ago by Sunswap
£30,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Onsite
Leatherhead, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Quality Assurance Specialist role at Sunswap involves providing quality support by inspecting and measuring incoming parts, as well as facilitating problem-solving sessions to ensure smooth production operations. This position requires close collaboration with operations and engineering teams in a dynamic manufacturing environment. The role is based on-site in Leatherhead and is offered as a fixed-term contract for two months. The company is focused on revolutionizing the refrigeration industry with electric solutions, emphasizing sustainability and innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Visually inspect and measure incoming parts against the design specifications.
- Quarantine nonconforming parts and communicate effectively.
- Triage production line defects, raise problem reports, and drive resulting actions to resolution.
- Support the production line and engineering teams by conducting visual inspection and measurement of parts/assemblies as requested.
- When requested, support the stores/inventory teams for stock take or other activities.
- Work safely and adhere to all regulations, policies, and procedures for health, safety, and environmental compliance.
Key Skills:
- 2+ years' experience working as a quality technician in a fast-paced manufacturing facility.
- Excellent understanding of containment/immediate correction.
- Experienced with inspecting components; familiar with inspection methods and equipment.
- Fully conversant with technical drawing notation; can correctly interpret 2D and 3D design data.
- Literate and numerate with high-level competency in Microsoft Office and/or similar packages.
- Great team player; an effective collaborator.
- Flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities.
- Deep problem-solving experience using quality methods and tools (i.e. 8D, Ishikawa, 5-Why) is advantageous.
- Formal engineering qualification is advantageous.
- Experience in Confluence and Airtable software tools is advantageous.
Salary (Rate): £30,000 FTC
City: Leatherhead
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Primary location: Leatherhead, KT22 7BA, UK Please note this role is based 5 days on site
Salary: £30,000 (FTC)
Duration of FTC: 2 months
About us
Every refrigerated truck and trailer moving goods across the country has relied on diesel for decades. It's polluting, expensive, and the technology hasn't change. Two companies have dominated the market, selling the same legacy technology with minor updates. Sunswap makes the electric refrigeration that's replacing it - zero emissions, lower operating costs, built from the ground up for how fleets actually operate. We have gone from founding to manufacturing at scale globally in just six years. We built our own production facility in Surrey. We are trusted by major brands like Tesco, Ocado, Birds Eye, and Happy Eggs every single day. With units operating across the UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Chile, and Australia. We have been named Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2024 and 2025. We have won awards for innovation, technology, and marketing excellence. We've secured backing from BGF, Barclays, and Clean Growth Fund. We've got the customers, the traction, and the momentum. Now we are taking this British-engineered product global. Scaling manufacturing. Opening new markets. Building the team that will make legacy polluting technology obsolete across the world. If you want to be part of a company that's setting new standards for the industry and scaling internationally, this is it.
Job overview
Reporting to Sunswap’s Head of Quality, the Quality Technician provides additional quality support to the existing Quality Team by carrying out visual inspection and measurement of incoming parts, as well as leading collaborative cross-functional problem solving sessions that threaten to stop the production line. This is an interesting and varied role that relies on successful close-working with the operations and engineering teams, in a dynamic and fast-paced manufacturing facility.
Key responsibilities
- Visually inspect and measure incoming parts against the design specifications.
- Quarantine nonconforming parts and communicate effectively.
- Triage production line defects, raise problem reports, and drive resulting actions to resolution.
- Support the production line and engineering teams by conducting visual inspection and measurement of parts / assemblies etc. as requested.
- When requested, support the stores / inventory teams for stock take or other activities.
- To work safely and adhere to all regulations, policies and procedures for health, safety and environmental compliance.
Qualifications & experience
- 2+ years' experience working as quality technician in a fast-paced manufacturing facility.
- Excellent understanding of containment / immediate correction.
- Experienced with inspecting components; familiar with inspection methods and equipment.
- Fully conversant with technical drawing notation; can correctly interpret 2D and 3D design data.
- Literate and numerate with high-level of competency in Microsoft Office and/or similar packages.
- Great team player; an effective collaborator.
- Flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities.
Advantageous
- Deep problem solving experience using quality methods and tools (i.e. 8D, Ishikawa, 5-Why).
- Formal engineering qualification.
- Experience in Confluence and Airtable software tools.