Manufacturing Quality Engineer

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full-time Manufacturing Quality Engineer to join our Manufacturing Team, based in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £34,400 to £43,000 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally. Joining an established team, you will work across a range of stakeholders with a focus on fixing internal workmanship quality issues identified in during acceptance testing. If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:

• Review production shift notes to collect Quality concerns
• Attend daily Internal Quality meetings to collect Quality concerns
• Review Internal Quality concerns from Shakedown, JAG and shift reports, investigate causes, provide updates on containment and permenant corrective actions at next daily meeting
• Support Functional failure investigations (QE team lead)
• Support MRB projects to help fix high hurts to business (QE team lead)
• Collect data and graph non-conformancies - Provide charts to show trends over time.
• Identify Terrible Top Ten workmanship issues by repair time duration and frequency of occurrence
• Collect snags from End of Line Audits and separate them by station. Communicate to Manager/Supervisors and print results to post on station boards for SOS meetings.
• Results of weekly EOL reports to be collected to identify trends to be reported on monthly and investigated
  
  Proven experience working with Manufacturing Assembly and Test processes (AFV Ajax Family vehicle experience preferred)
• Experience of low volume & high value (vehicle or similar) production.
• A working understanding of two & three dimensional CAD tools is desireable
• Significant experience/background in a Process/Manufacturing Engineering role
• Good working knowledge of generating and maintaining Work Instructions that provide clear and concise instruction for Repeatable and accurate results.
• RCCA investigation
• Possess a Degree, HNC or equivalent (vocational experience) in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering
• Experience working as a Manufacturing Engineer covering Mechanical/Electrical assemblies, Disability Confident
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About General Dynamics UK General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 650 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company's direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability.We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace - inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and

Our Company Benefits: We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:
• A compressed eight-day fortnight - which means every Friday off!
• A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family's needs
• A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
• Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
• A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices - giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace, ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance teamAs part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity we welcome in particular applications from women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and ethnic minority groups. We are a Disability Confident Employer, as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.