🚗 SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER – AUTOMOTIVE

Location: Daventry
Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job Type: Full-time
Sector: Automotive / Advanced Manufacturing

🚨 Workforce Group are working with a leading specialist automotive manufacturer who are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join their growing team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a quality professional who wants to take ownership of customer and supplier quality, work closely with major automotive programmes, and play a key role from APQP and PPAP through to production launch and ongoing quality performance.

You’ll be working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, acting as a key technical quality interface between the business, OEM customers and suppliers.

🔧 THE ROLE

As Senior Quality Engineer, you will take ownership of quality delivery across assigned programmes, working closely with customers, suppliers, production and engineering teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as the main quality contact for assigned OEM customers
• Managing customer quality concerns, non-conformances and concessions
• Leading structured 8D, 5 Whys and Fishbone root cause investigations
• Managing PSW submissions and supporting customer approvals
• Managing supplier quality performance and corrective actions
• Supporting and conducting supplier audits
• Reviewing and approving supplier PPAP submissions
• Identifying and escalating supplier quality, delivery and capability risks
• Supporting new supplier assessment and onboarding
• Leading supplier readiness activities ahead of production launch
• Supporting trial runs, first-off inspections and process validation
• Ensuring quality processes comply with IATF 16949
• Monitoring and reporting quality KPIs
• Working closely with production, engineering and quality teams
• Maintaining a hands-on presence on the production floor and at supplier sites
• Using FARO CMM equipment when required
• Developing measurement programmes and working with GD&T and datum strategies

🎯 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for someone with a strong background in quality engineering within a manufacturing environment, ideally within automotive.

You should have experience with:

• IATF 16949
• Automotive Core Tools
• APQP
• PPAP
• PFMEA
• Control Plans
• 8D / 5 Whys / Fishbone
• Engineering drawings and GD&T
• Manufacturing and production environments
• Supplier quality and development
• Customer quality management
• FARO CMM / measurement systems

You’ll also need to be confident communicating with customers, suppliers and internal teams, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently.

A full UK driving licence is required as occasional travel to customer and supplier sites may be necessary.

💥 WHY THIS ROLE?

This isn't just a paperwork-based quality position.

You'll have genuine ownership of customer and supplier quality, work directly across live automotive programmes and have the opportunity to make a real impact on quality, production and new product launches.

If you're an experienced Quality Engineer looking for your next challenge within a specialist automotive manufacturing environment, we want to hear from you.

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