Quality Engineer in Swindon

The Role:

With a 50-year history of innovation and manufacturing excellence, Retrac Group has been a key supplier to more than half the Formula 1 World Champions across the past two decades. We offer the complete engineering partnership and form an extension of our clients’ manufacturing capabilities.

Performance. Precision. Pride.

The Retrac Group’s core values drive our complete service, offering a single-entity manufacturing solution with an outstanding reputation for our ability to undertake the shortest possible lead time and still deliver on cost and quality.

The Role:

The Quality Engineer will be responsible for proactively resolving quality issues across the business along with implementing & improving processes to deliver right first time product to the customer. The right candidate will be willing to work collaboratively and proactively with other internal functions & incorporate Retrac’s core values of Performance, Precision & Pride in all their work.

Main Duties:

- Ensuring external customer requirements are understood, documented and communicated across all business functions.

- Leading technical problem-solving across the business & NCR reviews & resolving quality issues.

- Documenting & containing quality issues as required in production.

- Visually inspecting components/assemblies against cosmetic standards.

- Define internal processes & generate supporting process documentation.

- Leading project quality reviews with internal functions & customers, including reporting on the status of external quality issues.

- Ensure customer quality documentation is completed and submitted on-time.

- Develop internal standards for product families

- Provide guidance to the inspection team and ensuring quality best practices are being followed.

Technical Skillset:

- Experience reviewing & interpreting engineering drawings and GD&T.

- Visual inspection of cosmetic components/assemblies advantageous - Motorsport, niche vehicle, low production experience preferred.

- Knowledge of quality management systems, associated industry recognised standards (ISO9001, IATF 16949 & AS9100).

- Extensive knowledge of advanced problem-solving methodologies advantageous (8D/PPS).

- Familiar with OEM customer requirements APQP & PPAP.

- Internal auditing experience.

- Automotive, Aerospace or Motorsport industry knowledge.

- Use of MRP/ERP systems.

Personal Qualities

- A positive and enthusiastic individual.

- Attention to detail essential.

- A team player.

- Clear & concise communicator.

- Methodical approach to tasks.

- Embrace new ways of working & look to continually improve own performance & existing processes.