Quality Engineer

  • Response Personnel
  • Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
  • Oct 14, 2025
Full time Engineering

Job Description

Quality Engineer

Cambridge

Full Time Permanent Role

Salary depending on experience

Job Purpose

This is a full-time, on-site role located in the Cambridge area for a Quality Engineer, to support and drive the business in improving quality standards and efficiency, by promoting continuous improvement activities to facilitate delivery of high-quality product and services to our customers.

Key Responsibilities for the Quality Engineer

  • Support production in meeting delivery and quality targets
  • Support MRB (material review board) meetings
  • NCR (Non-Conformance report) management
  • Facilitate NCR investigations for production and engineering
  • Perform RCCA (Root cause and corrective actions) activities using tools like 8D and 5Y
  • Actioning customer returns and putting corrective actions in place
  • Carry out concession activities
  • Ensure equipment is calibrated and logged throughout the business
  • Support the business with continuous improvement
  • Fully comply with Company Policies including Health and Safety at all times
  • Management of Quality Team
  • Oversight of the audit schedule
  • Management of the BMS and the ownership of the associated procedures
  • Point of contact for external audits

KPI's

  • Adherence to Audit Schedule
  • Closing out of NCRs within agreed timelines including response to customer NCR's
  • External RFT > 98%
  • Internal RFT > 95 - 98%

Requirements

  • Relevant education and/or experience
  • Proficient IT capabilities and competent user of standard packages
  • Knowledge of ERP systems desirable
  • ISO based quality system knowledge desirable
  • Highly organised and process-oriented, with a logical and pragmatic approach
  • Work accurately, with good attention to detail
  • Persistence and determination to overcome obstacles and resolve problems
  • Comfortable working to time constraints
  • Excellent communication skills - verbal, written, and listening
  • Aptitude for building productive working relationships in a variety of situations
  • Capacity to learn new information, processes and/or systems and apply them appropriately
  • Self-motivated and confident
  • Manufacturing industry experience desirable

What are the Benefits for You?

You will be offered a full-time contract which comes with a competitive salary, 28 days holiday including statutory and public holidays, AVIVA healthcare scheme and a generous pension scheme. Our site has car parking, canteen facility and the benefit of a newly equipped gym for staff use.

You will receive a comprehensive induction, on-site training which will cover all aspects of the role, and Health, Safety and Fire and HR compliance training.

Aerospace / Quality / Quality Engineer / Quality Assurance / ISO / ISO9001 / Inspection / Quality Inspection