Quality Engineer
Quality Engineers are responsible for ensuring parts are made to the correct design, specification and quality standard stated.
Engineering is a challenging and rewarding career. From your mobile phone to the furniture you sit on, everything we see and touch around us is likely to have been engineered.
Day-to-day Tasks
- monitoring manufacturing processes to ensure they're using the right materials and methods
- establishing, maintaining, and implementing all quality standards
- creating quality based training materials for staff
- ensuring trainees are following current standards and up-to-date procedures
- Identifying areas for improvement eg reducing the need for physical inspection of parts
- creating documents and reports on quality controls and systems
Skills and Knowledge
You’ll need:
- advanced knowledge of engineering, science and technology
- to be thorough and pay attention to detail
- advanced maths knowledge
- advanced problem-solving ability
- analytical thinking skills
- quality assurance knowledge/experience
- to be able to use a computer and the main software packages competently, including product design software
Industry Qualifications
- a degree in engineering (normally mechanical engineering)
- a time served engineering apprentice with a number of years’ experience within the industry