Graduate Quality Engineer

Are you a recent Engineering or Quality graduate looking to start your career within a highly regulated manufacturing environment?

Do you enjoy problem solving, continuous improvement and working closely with production and engineering teams to drive quality standards?

We’re supporting a specialist manufacturing business who are looking to recruit a Graduate Quality Engineer to join their Quality team.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience within a fast-paced engineering environment while developing your career in quality engineering.

What’s the role all about?

As a Graduate Quality Engineer, you’ll support quality assurance activities across manufacturing, suppliers and customer-facing projects.

You’ll work closely with Production, Engineering and Quality teams to help ensure products meet customer specifications, industry standards and regulatory requirements.

This is a varied role offering exposure to audits, investigations, continuous improvement, root cause analysis and quality systems within a regulated manufacturing environment.

Key responsibilities

• Support quality assurance activities across manufacturing operations
• Assist with customer and supplier quality activities
• Support investigations into non-conformances and quality issues
• Assist with root cause analysis and corrective actions using tools such as 8D
• Help compile quality documentation including AS9102 FAIR documentation
• Participate in internal and supplier audits
• Support continuous improvement projects across the business
• Analyse quality and process data to identify trends and improvement opportunities
• Support process capability and quality control activities
• Assist with inspection and verification activities where required
• Support maintenance of quality systems and standards including ISO9001 and AS9100

What you’ll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring:

• HNC, Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering or Quality
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Interest in quality engineering and regulated manufacturing environments
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to work across multiple departments and projects
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office

Desirable

• Placement year or industry experience within manufacturing or engineering
• Knowledge of quality tools such as 8D, root cause analysis or Six Sigma
• Understanding of ISO9001 or AS9100 standards
• Exposure to engineering drawings or inspection processes

About you

You’re motivated, eager to learn and looking to build a long-term career within quality engineering.

You’ll be:

• Organised and detail-focused
• A proactive problem solver
• A strong communicator
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Interested in continuous improvement and manufacturing excellence

Salary and benefits

• Competitive salary
• Training and career development opportunities
• Exposure to aerospace and regulated manufacturing standards
• Supportive engineering and quality team environment
• Opportunity to develop within a growing business

Interested?

If you’re looking to start your career as a Graduate Quality Engineer, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Kingdom People are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.