Vickerstock
Quality Engineer
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Quality Engineer
Exclusive to Vickerstock
Location: Mid Tyrone area
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Industry: Heavy metal machinery manufacturing
What's On Offer?
Alongside the opportunity to join a growing Quality function within a complex engineering and manufacturing environment, the benefits package includes:
- A healthy basic salary
- 10% discretionary annual bonus
- Additional discretionary 2% year-end payment
- 7% employer pension contribution
- Group Income Protection
- Life Assurance at 6x salary
- 33 days annual leave
- Enhanced company sick pay
- Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
- Westfield cashback scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Occupational Health support
- Learning and development opportunities
- On-site parking and canteen
Working hours: 8am – 5pm Monday to Thursday and 8am – 2pm Friday
Company
Vickerstock are working exclusively with a leading engineering and manufacturing business in the recruitment of a Quality Engineer for their Mid Tyrone operation.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a developing Quality function within a complex heavy machinery manufacturing environment. Working closely with the Quality Manager, you will have a broad remit across manufacturing quality, product inspection and testing, customer quality and continuous improvement.
We are particularly interested in speaking with Quality Engineers who enjoy being close to the manufacturing process and want a role where they can identify problems, lead investigations and implement improvements rather than simply report on quality performance.
The Role of Quality Engineer
Reporting to the Quality Manager, you will take responsibility for operational quality assurance throughout the manufacturing process, from the receipt of materials through production, final machine testing and commissioning, and ultimately customer and field quality feedback.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
The position will involve working closely with Operations, Stores and Procurement to improve right-first-time performance, reduce defects and develop more robust quality controls throughout the manufacturing process.
You will also play an important role in developing inspection standards, improving machine testing and commissioning processes, and using customer and field feedback to drive improvements in both product quality and manufacturing capability.
Key Responsibilities for this Quality Engineer position
- Lead manufacturing quality assurance activities and support production teams in achieving right-first-time performance.
- Develop and maintain product quality standards, inspection criteria and quality control plans.
- Establish and monitor inspection points throughout the manufacturing process.
- Conduct process capability assessments and identify opportunities to improve manufacturing quality.
- Implement mistake-proofing and defect prevention measures.
- Lead final machine inspection and support the development of testing and commissioning standards.
- Ensure finished equipment meets engineering specifications and customer requirements prior to dispatch.
- Manage customer quality investigations and support warranty and field failure analysis.
- Lead root cause investigations and corrective and preventive actions.
- Analyse quality data to identify trends, recurring defects and opportunities for improvement.
- Support Kaizen and Continuous Improvement activities focused on quality, rework and defect reduction.
- Develop digital inspection processes, dashboards and quality reporting to improve defect visibility and decision making.
Essential Criteria for this Quality Engineer position
- Previous Quality Engineering experience within a metal manufacturing or engineering environment.
- A strong understanding of manufacturing quality assurance and in-process quality control.
- Experience of root cause analysis, corrective actions and quality problem-solving techniques.
- A good understanding of fabrication, welding, assembly and testing processes.
- Experience working with quality data and statistical analysis.
- Exposure to customer and/or supplier quality.
- Degree or HND within Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality or a related discipline.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Experience within heavy engineering, machinery manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, construction equipment or another complex manufacturing environment would be particularly relevant. Experience of assembly operations incorporating fabrication, machined components, hydraulics, electrical and electronic systems would also be advantageous.
If you are an experienced Quality Engineer, Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer or Senior Quality Technician looking for a broader Quality Engineering position within a complex manufacturing environment, this could represent an excellent next step in your career.
To apply for this Quality Engineer position, please submit your CV or contact Hugh Nugent at Vickerstock for a confidential discussion. All approaches will be dealt with in the strictest confidence.
Quality Engineer | Manufacturing Quality Engineer | Supplier Quality Engineer | Quality Assurance Engineer | QA Engineer | Quality Systems Engineer | Senior Quality Technician | Manufacturing Quality | Quality Assurance | Root Cause Analysis | Corrective Action | CAPA | 8D | Continuous Improvement | Kaizen | Fabrication | Welding | Assembly | Heavy Engineering | Machinery Manufacturing | Monaghan | Dungannon | Omagh | Cookstown | Portadown | Armagh | County Tyrone | Derry / Londonderry | Lisburn | Co Down
FOR A FULL LIST OF YOUR SECTOR RELATED VACANCIES PLEASE PERUSE OUR WEBSITE
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills