Job Description:

Quality Engineer

Location: Rossendale, Lancashire
Salary Equivalent: £50,000 - £55,000 per annum (pro rata)
Hours: Monday–Thursday 8:30am - 5:00pm | Friday 8:30am - 1:30pm
Contract: Temporary contract
Start: Immediate
Department: Quality

NW Recruitment Services Ltd are proudly supporting a specialist Rossendale-based business with the recruitment of a Quality Engineer to join their Quality team on a temporary contract.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Quality Engineer or quality professional with a background in a regulated manufacturing environment to support investigations, corrective actions and ongoing improvements across the business.

Working closely with manufacturing, engineering and other internal teams, you will play an important role in identifying the causes of quality issues, implementing effective solutions and ensuring robust processes are maintained.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and support investigations into quality issues, including corrective and preventative actions.
• Carry out structured root-cause analysis and identify appropriate corrective actions.
• Manage non-conformances and NCRs, ensuring investigations, actions and records are completed accurately.
• Work closely with manufacturing and engineering teams to resolve quality issues and prevent recurrence.
• Monitor corrective actions through to completion and verify their effectiveness.
• Review and support improvements to quality procedures, work instructions and process controls.
• Assist with maintaining and developing the Quality Management System.
• Analyse quality information, including NCRs, trends and other performance data, to identify recurring issues.
• Identify opportunities for process and quality improvement based on data and findings.
• Provide practical quality support within the manufacturing environment.
• Prepare quality reports, investigation records and supporting documentation.
• Assist with internal and external audits, customer requirements and associated quality activities.
• Ensure quality activities and documentation are completed in accordance with established procedures and applicable standards.

Skills & experience

• Previous experience working as a Quality Engineer or in a similar quality-focused position.
• Experience within medical devices, medical manufacturing or as a supplier to the medical-device industry is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of ISO 13485 and working within a regulated quality environment.
• Demonstrable experience with CAPA, root-cause analysis and non-conformance management.
• Experience using structured problem-solving techniques such as 5-Whys, Fishbone/Ishikawa or similar methodologies.
• Good understanding of quality tools and techniques such as FMEA, SPC and control plans.
• Experience working closely with manufacturing, production or engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with the confidence to investigate issues and challenge processes where appropriate.
• Experience with an electronic QMS, such as Q-Pulse or a similar system, would be advantageous.
• Experience within machining, polymer processing or another precision manufacturing environment would be beneficial.

Personal attributes

• Analytical, methodical and structured in your approach.
• Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
• Confident communicating with manufacturing and engineering teams.
• Comfortable investigating problems and challenging practices where necessary.
• Able to manage multiple investigations, actions and priorities simultaneously.
• Proactive and focused on finding practical improvements / committed to maintaining high standards of quality and compliance.
• Clear and professional communicator at all levels with ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a wider Quality team.

Apply now

If you are an experienced Quality Engineer with a background in a regulated manufacturing environment and are looking for an immediate temporary opportunity, we would be interested in hearing from you.

Immediate availability is preferred.