Job Summary

About CAF

Most of us come to work to earn money and as an accredited Living Wage employer, of course you can expect a competitive salary from us; but we also recognise that you spend a lot of time in work, so you must choose your employer well!

Built on core values of Excellence, Trust, and Sustainability, CAF make beautiful and exciting products that we are all really proud of. It is not always easy to achieve the results we want, so we have recruited a team of amazing people, working together to achieve a common goal. As a business, we are willing to try new things; so our people need to be flexible and innovative.

Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee work to ensure that we create a welcoming environment for everyone, where difference is respected; whilst our Employee Engagement Forum are tasked with injecting some fun into the workplace with events and activities throughout the year.

If you want to be purposeful, occupied, and part of an awesome team, building an amazing product; the choice is simple - choose CAF.

Job Description

QMS Senior Engineer

The QMS Senior Engineer ensures the effective implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System in accordance with IRIS standards. This role supports compliance, quality assurance, and process improvement initiatives to ensure consistent product and service quality. This role may require occasional travel outside of the UK.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain the site’s QMS in alignment with corporate policies and relevant regulations.
• Lead internal and external audits; coordinate responses, follow-up actions to ensure compliance of the closure dates and lead the closure of open points by proactively collaborating with the working teams.
• Manage UK MNCR system, follow up on pending actions & deadlines and report progress to Head of Quality and QMS representative in HQ.
• Lead the closure of actions proactively assisting the working groups.
• Create a Process review system in the UK and monitor improvement actions on a regular basis.
• Lead and contribute to the closure of the open points by collaboratively assisting the working group.
• Monitor corporate QMS documentation changes and create a consistent feedback loop to the relevant teams in the UK site.
• Participate in process forums with HQ to be up to date with the business latest direction regarding QMS requirements and bring UK input into the discussions.
• Report on QMS performance to the Head of Quality and support the site’s quality objectives. Create weekly, biweekly, and monthly reports on QMS status.
• Participate in regular meetings with corporate team in HQ to inform of the progress of the UK site.
• Monitoring of the deployment of Quality Initiatives in the UK.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality is integrated into all operations and promoting a Quality culture throughout the company.
• Manage the UK asset calibration system to comply with the CAF group standards. Ensure Special Processes compliance.
• The QMS Senior Engineer will perform Special Processes Coordination duties.
• Support SQA, Production QA, and other departments in the business through leading QA owned CI initiatives and participating in the transversal ones.
• Lead the deployment of HQ Quality initiatives in the UK, e.g. Process Audits.
• Carry out other duties as and when business requirements dictate as may be reasonably expected by the line manager.