Quality Engineer

Functional area: Quality

Country: UK - United Kingdom

City: Washington

Company name: Walker Filtration Ltd. UK

Date of posting: Oct 9, 2024

Purpose of the role

The Quality Engineer will play a pivotal role in supporting our SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality) culture and ensuring excellence throughout the product and process lifecycle. In this role, you will apply your expertise to mentor and guide teams in your designated area, with opportunities for rotation. Your focus will be on maintaining compliance with all legal standards, driving best practices, and fostering continuous improvement—all while upholding Walker Filtration's core values of innovation, interaction, and personal commitment.
Reporting directly to the Quality Manager, you will collaborate closely with Operations, Technical, and Customer Service teams to drive a proactive quality culture.
Your mission is to champion a proactive quality culture, ensuring we remain the partner of choice in delivering exceptional quality expertise and world-class customer service. At Walker Filtration, our vision is to be first in mind and first in choice for pure, sustainable clean air and gas purification with emphasis on attention to detail and getting it right first time

Responsibilities

Key Objectives
Quality Policies and Procedures

• Playing an Integral part in ensuring the effective development of the integrated quality management system. From goods-in to despatch. Review, develop and introducing key QA processes within the business.

Development of a Quality Culture

• Developing the quality culture by using, developing and implementing a wide range of recognised quality tools and techniques.
• Foster close working relationships with the organisation to ensure the voice of the customer is heard at every stage of the process.
• Develop and roll out effective training in relation to critical to quality aspects of product and processes
• Carry out root cause analysis of issues, implement robust actions to prevent reoccurrence with consideration to other products and processes ensuring horizontal deployment where appropriate.
• Represent the quality function in cross functional teams ensuring that objectives and milestones are delivered relating to process and NPD development.
• Lead and mentor operations teams in the successful resolution of customer complaints and line issues.

Analysis and Reporting

• Produce analysis on key quality measures with detailed improvement plans i.e.:

Cost of poor quality; Customer Complaints; Not right first time; Scrap & Quality
related OEE

• Actively participate in the develop of the WFL Integrated Management System (ISO9001, 45001 & 14001,13485) by reviewing policies and procedures and conducting internal audits as directed by the Quality Manager.
• Any other reasonable task the manager may deem suitable for the role.

You will benefit from :

• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Death in Service
• Employee Assistance Programme including trained Mental Health First Aiders and on demand GP service
• Eye test vouchers and annual flu jab
• Onsite gym for £4 per month including a weekly HIIT class
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Enhanced support for maternity and paternity leave
• Christmas Savings Club
• Opportunity for professional growth and development
• A vibrant culture committed to being fully inclusive.

Walker Filtration employs over 300 employees across the globe, serving over 100 countries from our Headquarters in the North East of England, along with competence centres in Australia, the United States and Japan.
As a company, we are committed to sustainable engineering, manufacturing and developing long term careers. We recruit talented, ambitious and driven individuals to be part of Walker Filtration’s growth plans. We firmly believe that people are our greatest asset, and our employees are given the opportunity to progress their own careers and help drive the business forward.