Kohler Co.
Process Quality Engineer
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Process Quality Engineer
Salary: up to £35k (subject to skills and experience) + fantastic benefits including company bonuses, healthcare plan, and generous pension scheme.
Location: Onsite – Cheltenham
Designing award-winning products for our market-leading brands – Mira Showers, Rada, and Recoup - is our lifeblood. We focus on investment; investing in the best technology and resources available and investing in each and every individual. Whether you arrive at our facilities in Cheltenham, Worcester, or Hull, have a visit from a Service Engineer, or pick up the phone to our Customer Service team, you’ll instantly see that, no matter our department or location, we all share the same cultural values at Kohler Mira.
From day one, you’re part of the Kohler Mira community – a collaborative, forward-focused team with a shared pride in our work and commitment to delight our customers, develop innovative products and services, and inspire our people.
Opportunity
As our Process Quality Engineer, you'll play a key role in driving a culture of continuous improvement across our manufacturing operations. You'll use your expertise in Quality Assurance, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Root Cause Analysis, and process improvement techniques to identify opportunities, solve complex problems, and enhance performance.
You'll champion Six Sigma methodologies, applying the DMAIC framework to deliver sustainable improvements in quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you'll help shape best practices, influence positive change, and ensure our processes consistently deliver exceptional results.
Specific Responsibilities
- Act as a responsible Process Quality Engineer for all key production lines within both buildings.
- Develop sound product knowledge.
- Be a "hands-on" person, taking personal responsibility for "doing", and spending a large proportion of their time on the factory floor working closely with staff and process owners on continual improvement projects.
- Meticulously monitor production processes to identify deviations from quality standards and promptly address any issues.
- Liaise and collaborate closely with all levels of Operations & stakeholders. Use relationships to maintain a network to support Production / Quality Strategies.
- Harvest and trend Infinity, Smart Factory, and Ignition data as an enabler to communicate current and potential future state issues.
- Support the removal of manually recorded OEE data.
- Work with the Controls team to validate Ops Link OEE portion 3.0.
- Work closely with AME to ensure PFMEA’s are effectively maintained and controlled.
- Support production with RCA and drive resolutions. Ensure appropriate measurement techniques are used.
- Ensure Control Plans, PPTR’s, and associated documentation are implemented effectively and maintained.
- From a quality perspective, support new production equipment to ensure a smooth handover from NPI.
- Capture and analyze manufacturing metrics to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement, including the realization of those improvements.
- Facilitate machine and process capability studies using data and statistical techniques. Promote and utilize techniques for continuous improvement such as Poka-Yoke (Error Proofing), and Measurement System Analysis.
- Operate without need for technical supervision.
- Drive quality communication to ensure knowledge is shared and recorded.
- Define and develop cell data structure and management in conjunction with appropriate stakeholders (collection, output, analysis, and communication).
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Skills/Requirements
- A relevant mechanical or electro-mechanical HNC or higher qualification.
- Minimum of 5 years experience, ideally completed 4 year engineering apprenticeship.
- Experience of communicating information at all levels across various functions: written & verbally, concisely, and accurately.
- A tenacious, enthusiastic, results-driven individual with excellent time management skills.
- A confident user of Microsoft Office software.
- Must be structured and organized, with an ability to work on their own, within a team.
- Project Management experience, with six sigma green belt project leadership experience.
- Trained to use MS Project.
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About Us
In the UK, Kohler Mira Ltd. is made up of three market-leading brands: Mira Showers, Rada Controls, and Recoup. Where our brands differ in market position, they are equal in their commitment to design, innovation, and providing a single level of quality regardless of price.
Kohler Mira is committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse associates, consumers, partners, and global communities. As an equal opportunities employer, it is Kohler Mira’s policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified people in all job classifications without prejudice. If, as an individual with a disability, you require adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact talentacquisitionuk@kohler.com.
Note for Recruitment Agencies: The Kohler Talent Acquisition team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies, and where we require external support, we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to Kohler Co. without a specific request by our Talent Acquisition Team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.
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