Quality Inspector

Quality Inspector - Nights 📍 Baisldon| 💼 Full-Time | 💷 £18.54per hour + 33% Shift Allowance Working hours: 39 hours, Monday to Thursday 19:30pm - 04:30am , Friday 2.30am - 7:30am Benefits: * Competitive pay * Shift allowance 33% * Overtime 1.5× from Monday to Saturday and 2× on Sundays * Pension * 25 Days Annual Holiday plus 8 statutory days * Health Plan * Long Service awards * Death in Service Purpose of role and key accountabilities: * To provide Quality and Inspection support for both existing and new business opportunities and to develop the Right First-Time philosophy required to become a leading supplier of quality components to the aerospace industry * Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process, in line with business standards and customer requirements * Check and verify the compliance of components produced at all stages within business * First article inspection procedures * Identify reoccurring quality issues and communicate them to the chief inspector along with recommendations * Assist in the 5Y quality procedure and produce rout cause analysis of product failures * Incorporate standardisation of jigs, fixtures and tooling wherever possible * Non-conformance procedures * Represent quality function at team meetings * Support, develop and improve the relationship with our quality contacts within our customer base * Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit our products and manufacturing processes * To work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required. * To support, develop, maintain and improve the company’s quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system * To control calibration activity of all instrument on regular basis * To conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and techniques to ensure that the manufacturing processes meet customer requirements Core skills/attributes needed: * Previous Internal auditing experience * Experienced in an engineering background * Ability to interpret engineering drawings and specifications * Technical knowledge & experience within the aerospace sector preferred * Competent in using the following equipment; verniers, micrometres, bore micrometers, height gauges, DTI (Digital Test Indicators); * Experience in a quality control environment preferred Page 2 of 2 Gardner Aerospace Confidential (AMBER) Document * Provide 1st Article Inspection Reports * Working to ISO 9001 and ISO 5001 * Experience of Machining / Fabrications and Treatments * Attention to detail * Ability to work on own initiative and with minimum supervision * CMM experience advantageous but not essential * Experience in lean tools such as 8D, Kaizen (Continues Improvement) processes Chemical and special processes knowledge * Aerospace manufacturing background ideally specific NADCAP experience * New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP + PPAP Awareness * Practical Problem Solving skills * Excellent IT Skills The employee must also strive to support the elements of the SQCDP framework of the wider Gardner business; Safety: work in line with all accredited company safety standards in order to provide a safe working environment for all Quality: support the quality accreditations across the business to ensure the delivery of a ‘right first time’ performance Cost: support the continuous improvements in cost reduction activities across the company in order to deliver increased profitability and value for money to our customers and stakeholders Delivery: drive improvement in delivery performance to continually exceed customer expectations and targets People: support organisational capability and influence cultural change by embracing diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and community