Lead Quality Engineer

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, gb

Company Description

Bosch Rexroth and HydraForce bring together two world-class leaders in hydraulic motion control. By combining our strengths, we've broadened our hydraulics offering to deliver the world's highest quality hydraulic control solutions to more OEMs across the globe. Together, we are expanding the possibilities of hydraulic control technology to provide innovative and reliable solutions.

HydraForce Hydraulics, operating from our purpose-built facility in Birmingham, UK, is a global designer and manufacturer of motion control systems and the world’s leading manufacturer of hydraulic cartridge valves and custom hydraulic integrated circuits, as well as electronic controls for a variety of off-highway industries

Job Description

• Responsible for Plant Quality Management System
• Responsible for ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001Implementation, Sustainability and Effectiveness
• Responsible for creating, keeping, updating and tracking of central and internal directives, regulations, instructions, documents
• Lead QMM7 Team
• Coordination of the internal/external process and system audits
• Coordination of problem solving activities
• Coordination of Plant FMEAs and Control Plans
• Coordination of Plant 8Ds and other problem solving tools
• Perform process/system audits
• Follow-up of the findings and measures of the internal and external process audits
• Coordination of central reporting to DC/QM and DC-CH/QMM
• Distribution of the given Q-Targets at plant level Value Streams / departments and deployment of the distributed targets
• Responsible for internal and external trainings regarding QMS
• Project / process leading responsibility in line with Q-Plan such as 14Q Principle, Q-Mindset & Q-Qualification Improvement activities or other related QMS project (e.g. Archiving, etc)
• Plan and implement of the improvement activities regarding QMS in line with the plant quality plan
• Coordination of the Plant Q-Activities e.g Q-Day, Q-Competitions, Q-Campaigns, etc.
• Support to standardization and lean activities

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc Degree in Mechanical, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering or relevant engineering faculties
• Have deeply knowledge and experience in quality management system
• Have leadership skills in team leading
• Have knowledge of quality assurance tools and methods such as measurement techniques, capability analysis of measurement systems, problem solving tools e.g 8D, Ishikawa, 5 Why analysis, etc.
• Be structured, systematic and good at collaboration, have good communication skills both in internal and external business environment
• Have ability to work as a part of an international team
• Excellent command of written and spoken English

Additional Information

You will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK, as we are unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants would not be provided with a Skilled Worker visa for this role and will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.