Associate Quality Engineer
Galway, Ireland
Supporting the Quality department, the Associate Quality Engineer plays a pivotal role in maintaining and improving the effectiveness of the Quality Management System. S/he provides guidance to other departments as regards best practice and conformance to company and customer requirements and liaises with customers and suppliers. Key responsibilities include:
- Manage Supplier quality performance and improvement via SCAR and Audit process
- Manage qualification process for new Suppliers and ongoing assessment of existing Suppliers
- Coordinate and review plant environmental monitoring results to ensure that internal standards are maintained. Utilise CAPA process to address any non-conformances
- Support Management Review meetings, prepare performance trend report for meetings and monitor actions through to closure
- Attend Operations, NPI, Quality and Audit meetings
- Participate in Customer, Supplier, Internal and ISO certification audits and implementation of actions
- Act as site point of contact for customer audit responses
- Co-ordinate company’s FMEAs, host meetings and provide guidance to teams
- Support Incoming Inspection activities by ensuring relevant personnel have current quality instructions and specifications and are qualified to perform duties
- Support continuous improvement programmes
- Support creation, review and approval of quality management system documentation
- Provide support to manufacturing team on daily product quality issues – is authorised to stop Production run in the event of Quality issue being raised
- Provide guidance and support to placement students within quality department
Skill Requirements:
- 3rd Level Quality Assurance qualification
- Six sigma green belt preferable
- Lead Auditor
- Experience in plastics materials desirable
- Experience in a Quality function ideally within a manufacturing environment
- A methodical approach
- Attention to detail
- Problem-solving skills
- Excellent English language written and oral communications skills
- Working knowledge of basic statistical techniques (Minitab)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word , PowerPoint
- General knowledge of commonly used measuring equipment and instrument selection
- Working knowledge of calibration process
- Working knowledge of process, product & software validation
Remuneration Package:
We offer a competitive salary & benefits package, based on demonstrated experience.
We welcome the opportunity to interview candidates who meet the above criteria and who demonstrate initiative, flexibility and the ambition to succeed – please forward details to:
Lesley Murray, HR Director, Nelipak Healthcare Packaging, Unit 6D, Mervue Business Park Galway.
e-mail: lesley.murray@nelipak.com
CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS – FRIDAY 18th OCTOBER 2019