Certification Officer

Independent Forgings and Alloys have an exciting opportunity for a committed, and driven Certification Officer to join our journey to become the number one forging company in the world.

Over the last few years, Independent Forgings and Alloys Ltd (IFA) have invested in the business and have successfully doubled our turnover and are continuing on this path.

Main Purpose of the Role

You will work as part of our Quality team to ensure all documentation, certification and supportive reports are produced and kept up to date, working with our Production and technical teams. You will ensure the documentation is of the highest quality and correct to industry standards.

You should have a strong background within the Quality function of a manufacturing industry, ideally with experience of working on Aerospace, Nuclear, Defence or other safety critical parts.

Main duties include:

Working with other departments including Quality, Production, Technical and Commercial to endure high standards of documentation and . Producing reports and documentation around:

• Certificates of conformity.
• FAIR (first article inspection reports) packages to customer requirements.
• DVI Packages (Safran Industrial Validation Package).
• Customer concession documentation.
• Purchase Orders.
• Despatch documentation.
• Work with internal departments to promote a standard of product and documentation excellence in line with customer requirements.
• Liaise with customers to process documents and amendments to documentation as required

Background and experience

• Experience of working in a quality department within an manufacturing environment, ideally within metals manufacturing, including Aerospace, Automotive, Power generation sectors
• Experience of working with a range of quality documentation in a metals manufacturing environment
• Working knowledge of Excel, Word and windows-based data systems.
• A good understanding of quality processes and procedures
• Excellent attention to detail.

About Independent Forgings

Independent Forgings and Alloys (IFA) is one of Britain's leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers. The unique feature about IFA is the combination of open and closed-die forging while also undertaking the whole production process from raw material to the finished product in one location. Operating from a ft2 facility in Sheffield, we manufacture high-integrity, open-die and closed-die forged components in nickel alloy, titanium, stainless steel and carbon alloys for customers and tier-one suppliers within the aerospace, nuclear, power generation, marine as well as oil and gas sector.

Why work for us?

At IFA we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. As one of the UK's leading forge manufacturing company we want to ensure that we attract, motivate and retain the best people who can deliver the best service to the company and our customers.

We offer you:

• Holidays - you will have 33 days holiday, including bank holidays.
• Pension scheme - IFA wants to provide its employees a good foundation for the life after work and hence offers a 5% contribution.
• Working hours 8.15am - 4.30pm Monday to Thursday with 4pm finish on Friday
• Bonus scheme - this is linked to team and company performance.
• Westfield cash plan - IFA provides level 1 health cash plan which comes along with numerous discounts and special offers, including gym discounts, online, high street and grocery retailers and many more.
• Wellhub - access to various fitness apps and gyms in the local area.
• Free work wear and PPE.
• Development - we offer genuine development opportunities to progress your career.