Pretoria: Quality Engineer posted by Profile Personnel

About the Role

As a Quality Engineer at Profile Personnel, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of our products and processes. You will be responsible for monitoring plant quality activities, maintaining product, process, and system standards, and facilitating improvements and audits.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining an integrated Quality system structure within BRMP (SharePoint) management structure.
• Perform audits of the systems 1st Party IATF 16949:2016, processes 1st Party VDA 6.3:2016 and products on site to a defined audit schedule.
• Continuously monitor the adherence to optimum process settings and controls, targeting continual improvement.
• Facilitate action teams and improvement programs to continually improve on identified risks.
• Ensure that safety, environmental and quality standards are maintained at all times through random auditing of various standards and requirements at set intervals to set formats.
• Ensure data collection and analyses of data trends and focus areas for improvement drives.
• Circulate data and management reports to share information on focus areas and needs for improvement.
• Control all quality-related documentation in the plant.
• Continuously Improve upon the effective use of quality tools available to assist with improvement drives on the shop floor, at source.
• Continuously Monitor, Measure and Trend the Performances within the plant to highlight and reduce risks and concerns.
• Maintain Quality Registers, distribution matrices and relevant boundary samples.
• Conduct MSA studies.
• Conduct SPC studies on Process / product with Special Characteristics.
• Continually measure, monitor and provide improvement plans for improving business systems efficiency and cost reduction programs at the plant.
• Maintain strong relationships with both suppliers and customers.
• Co-ordinate the creation and implementation of a set of quality-related training modules for various levels of competency in quality tools and techniques for use as continual improvement tools at the plant.
• Ensure an enabling climate/culture.
• Ensure a safe, secure and legal working environment.
• Manage individual, team and departmental performance to achieve organisational objectives.
• Compile and update Performance Contracts and Individual Development Plans and facilitate individual career path planning.
• Determine the training needs of the Department.
• Conduct Performance Reviews and manage sub-standard performance.
• Coach and counsel people to ensure improved performance levels
• Ensure discipline is maintained in department (absenteeism, lateness, overtime, misconduct, etc.)
• Resolve grievances and disputes

Requirements

• National Diploma Quality Management or Engineering
• Trained Auditor ISO 9001;2015; IATF 16949:2016 & VDA 6.3:2016