Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer for Cytiva is responsible for driving quality adherence, process change, and risk assessment in a high volume manufacturing facility.

This position is part of the Quality Engineering Team reporting to the Quality Engineering Manager located in Newquay and will be an on-site position.

What You’ll Do

• Facilitate Compliance improvement within the Value Stream
• Ensure non-conformances are reported when they occur, support associated investigations, and facilitate non-conformance closure.
• Actively review the production environment identifying non-conformity, areas to improve compliance
• Coordination and reporting of relevant failure investigations and subsequent corrective and preventive actions and reviewing effectiveness of these.
• Support and lead the operations teams and Engineers when required in the evaluation, trending, and reporting of internal and external non-conformances to establish priorities and identify common threads aimed at a continuous reduction in internal non-conformance occurrences via internal or supplier process improvements.
• Work with the Engineers to collect, analyse, trend, and report data on rejects from routine production inspection and QC tests and related processes to establish improvement priorities and identify common threads aimed at a reduction in external complaints. Work with QA Specialists and others as appropriate to ensure that production inspections and QC tests are aligned with customer needs.
• Provide a Quality insight into the results and conclusion of data analyses and trending.
• Ensure required processes, practices, and standards in production, quality control, and related areas are validated, and continuously improved working with unit managers, manufacturing engineers, and team leaders to achieve this.
• Keep abreast of the development of standards to ensure techniques and practices are kept up to date; recommend internal OMS/procedure changes as required.
• Support product development/transfer activities.
• Review and develop procedures relevant to departmental operations.
• Provide support to Quality Assurance Manager during external audits of Pall Newquay.
• Manage complaint investigations identifying improvement opportunities.
• Lead CDTR projects to completion.
• Support Cost reduction programs and lead projects where appropriate.
• Actively identify improvement opportunities and facilitate their implementation.
• Support daily Management processes to facilitate the use of best practice.