Title: Senior Quality Inspector

Location: Wakefield 

Rate: £40k-£45k

Hours: Days 

Purpose of the Role:

Responsible for carrying out mechanical engineering inspection of precision machined components and fabricated parts to ensure we deliver the quality and specification to meet customer requirements.

Looking after a small team of 3 Inspectors, you will need to lead the team, be hands on with the inspection and take care of all relevant paperwork.

Key Responsibilities:

- Interpret engineering drawings, identify specified standards, check final component produced meets specification and produce supporting evidence

- Prioritise workload by liaising with engineering departments about delivery schedules and delivery dates on projects

- Identify components which do not conform with customer specification enabling corrective action to be taken before the product is delivered to the customer 

- Carry out root-cause analysis to identify cause of non-conformance, eg operator error, machine problem, wrong materials and ensure preventative measures are put in place to prevent future non-conformances 

- Maintain and manage calibration of all measuring tools ensuring all methods of measuring comply with calibration tolerances and that checks are carried out at appropriate intervals. 

- Maintain accurate records to demonstrate accuracy measures

- When a component is finished, complete Inspection Report to confirm the product meets the required specification and produce Certificate of Conformance to be sent to the customer

-  Engage, advise and guide other managers and colleagues on quality issues to ensure compliance with ISO14001 and ISO9001 by complying with appropriate Standard Operating Procedures

Key Skills:

- Thorough understanding of ISO9001 and ISO14001

- Experience of working with CMM

- Fully conversant with engineering drawings and conventions 

- Experience of weld and fabrication inspection 

- Conversant with material specifications

- Experienced in the interpretation of material test certificates to ensure compliance with specifications 

- Methodical approach to work with strong attention to detail 

- Good understanding of engineering principles

- Team-player and ability to work on own initiative able to achieve deadlines under pressure

Qualifications:

- Relevant experience in mechanical engineering 

- Qualification in mechanical engineering (Desirable) 

- Competent in the use of a wide range of precision measuring equipment including digital height gauges, hardness testers, shadow graphs etc

- Experience in LK or similar metrology arm (Desirable)

- Excellent IT skills, including MS Office, Excel.