Quality Certification Officer

Quality Certification Officer
Permanent Position
Rapidly growing business
Birmingham
Excellent Salary

My client are a precision manufacturing business, based in Birmingham, specialising in machining and assembly of high value, low volume components.

Role Overview
The Quality Certification Officer will be responsible for reviewing and approving supplier certification, which is used to manufacture critical components for supply primarily into the naval marine sector but also other marketplaces including civil nuclear.

Key Responsibilities
The Quality Certifications Officer will be responsible for ensuring that the certification received from suppliers is correct and to the quality standards our customers require.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

• Reviewing of certification supplied by supply chain and verifying against the customers specifications in order to ensure full compliance with the customers’ requirements.
• Liaising with suppliers to communicate effectively any required corrections to certificates where required. 
• Analysing and verifying material using XRF positive material identification equipment.
• Providing advice and assistance to colleagues and suppliers regarding material and testing standards and requirements.
• Train suppliers in certification requirements and provide on-site support and certification approval as required.
• Lead projects to improve the workflow of certification and efficiency of processing to reduce checking lead times and ensure 100% RFT quality of product provided and associated certification.
• Maintain the certification database and ensure KPI targets are achieved.
• Dealing with all material enquiries both internally and externally
• Ensure that standard operating procedures are adhered to, deviations from process should be highlighted and the SOP reviewed and updated to ensure the process is correct and up to date.
• Carrying out any other duties appropriate to this post, as necessary or as requested.
• Raising concessions relating to material
• Raising and actioning DR’s.
• QASOR review support
• QASOR generation support
• Support Contract review process including Quote2Order
• Support the goods inwards process.
• Support works order reviews where required.
• Arrange and monitor 3rd party test house requests.

Skills & Experience

• Proven track record of success in Quality with a strong understanding and exposure to operations, engineering, distribution and supply chain.
• Graduate or equivalent qualification with a strong engineering/manufacturing background.
• Relevant Quality/Metallurgical professional qualifications.
• Experience of operating within a global manufacturing/ technology business and a balance of working both strategically and operationally.
• Broad based technical and business knowledge of the Nuclear/Defence industry is desirable.
• Experience in a metrics focused environment including weekly and monthly quarterly reporting and analysis.
• Knowledge of Defence standards and accreditations
• Strong computer literate skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Excellent attention to detail with a high accuracy level.
• Support the Quality Assurance as required in the following area(s):-
  • Process audits
  • Customer audit preparation
  • Internal reject analysis

Benefits

• 10% matched pension
• Flexible working
• 25 days plus bank holidays annual leave
• Health care scheme

Due to security clearances and restrictions, candidates must hold a British passport