Quality Engineer

  • Forge Talent Group
  • Newton Aycliffe, County Durham
  • Mar 27, 2026
Full time Engineering

Job Description

We are looking to recruit on behalf of our client a Quality Engineer to join their team on a Permanent basis.

Knowledge and Experience:

  • Strong understanding of OEM customer standards and requirements
  • A proven background of leadership abilities combined with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to plan and manage resources to achieve objectives and priorities despite conflicting agendas and multiple deliverables.
  • Experience and working knowledge in producing and developing required PPAP elements such as PFMEA's control plans etc.
  • Experience in using Quality tools and techniques such as, 8D Analysis, Poka Yoke etc.
  • Ability to lead and motivate cross functional teams to achieve desired results.

Key tasks/ Responsibilities:

  • To assist in the development and maintain product assurance systems ensuring customer specific requirements are fulfilled (IATF16949 and other specifics)
  • To provide leadership and to develop a culture of defect prevention and waste elimination.
  • To be a capable user of core quality tools & techniques and their application, typically: SPC, Histograms, Pareto charts, Scatter Diagrams, stratification etc.
  • Support the internal manufacturing teams with regard to the timely resolution of customer and internal quality concerns
  • Support the NPI Teams during the development of control plans, PFMEA, Gauge planning etc and highlight potential failure modes ref lessons learnt.
  • Support the internal audit team by performing various internal audits.
  • Understanding and utilisation of automotive cor tools such as APQP, PPAP, PFMEA processes.
  • Promote compliance to company systems, procedures and control plan requirements.
  • Provide and communicate quality/ process data to the senior teams and facilitate actions to improve.
  • CMM measurements analysis and programming capability to perform routine CMM Measurements along with NPI capability studies.
  • Support quality manager, to manage the activities of Quality engineers/ Lab Supervisors on a day-to-day basis.
  • Pro-actively visit customer/ supplier locations to resolve customer concerns and maintain high levels of customer liaison when required.