The Role

[Employer hidden] is looking for an Quality Engineer - NPD on a temporary contract for three months to support the development and execution of the NPD Quality deliverables in a rapidly developing environment. You will be an enthusiastic and capable individual with a hands-on approach to Quality, prepared to lead by example to instil a mindset of Quality First within an OEM working on new product ranges.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Support the Quality Manager - NPD in defining, developing and executing the Quality deliverables as part of the NPD process
• Ensuring that product inspection processes are developed throughout pre-production builds and ready for handover to the current vehicle Quality team
• Working cross-functionally to support the business with DFMEA, PFMEA, design reviews, control plans, DFMs and other key NPD processes
• Ensuring that product inspection standards are delivered in line with timings set out in the NPD process
• Prepare evidence based gateway content to support project Quality deliverables
• Provide weekly updates to the wider project teams via project steering meetings
• Liaise with the Supplier Quality team for the delivery of supplier PPAP
• Steer and manage problems identified during build & test phases to drive resolution in Norton’s problem resolution system
• Liaise with the Supplier Quality team on any development part related issues identified during pre-production builds
• Encourage lean thinking, continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making
• Liaise with the Vehicle Quality team to collate and interpret End of Line and CQPA data and feed this information back into the New Models to improve each next iteration of the product, lessons learned
• Experience working in a rapidly evolving environment with the resilience to overcome challenging situations is desirable
• Support the Norton high performance framework and wider business objectives, by ensuring adherence to individual objectives, set out by the Quality Manager - NPD
• Where applicable, international travel will be required on occasion to support project activities

Personal Specification

• Experience working within new product setup within a manufacturing environment
• Automotive experience is preferable
• A strong knowledge of new product development within manufacturing products
• Being able to deal with multiple projects (Project management skills would be advantageous)
• Comfortable working in a cross-functional team with the ability to influence others
• Self-sufficient and good organisational skills
• Confident communicator to both internal and external stakeholders
• MS Office proficient, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.