Senior Production Quality Engineer

Senior Production Quality Engineer focuses on review engineering drawings to ensure everything is clear, robust, and inspectable.

What the role involves

• Review engineering drawings to ensure everything is clear, robust, and inspectable.
• Driving Continuous Improvement: Analyse quality data to spot trends, eliminate systemic defects.
• Lead change control activities (including BOM and work instruction updates).
• Auditing & Compliance: Keep us sharp and audit-ready, actively participating in internal and external audits (including ISO 13485).
• Drive investigations forward, and work effectively in teams of 2 to 20 people.
• Report directly to the Associate Director of Production Engineering, giving your work high visibility and real strategic weight.

Skills and requirements

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering (or a closely related discipline).
• Hands-on working knowledge of ISO 13485 and ISO 14971.
• A formal qualification in Quality or a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
• An ISO 13485 Lead or Internal Auditor certification.

Confirmed role details

• We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.

Candidate fit

• Expertise in structured problem-solving (CAPA/NCR management) and the ability to interpret engineering drawings and risk documentation.

Additional role context

• Leading Investigations: Take full ownership of internal and supplier NCRs and CAPAs from initiation to verification, using structured root-cause analysis (5-Why, Fishbone, etc.).
• Standardising Excellence: Define, document, and standardise our goods-in inspection processes, creating clear acceptance/rejection criteria and training the inspection teams to exe.
• Mitigating Risk Early: Participate heavily in risk assessment activities (DFMEA/PFMEA).