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Quality Engineer - British Gypsum - East Leake, Loughborough

Highly competitive pay/package and professional development program.

The British Gypsum manufacturing facility in East Leake is the biggest of its kind in the UK and one of the largest in the world. As the Quality Engineer you will be provided with the training, the tools, and the backing to continually improve our quality systems and ensure our products remain the first choice for our customers. You will work with the Shift Managers and Performance Managers to achieve full product compliance and monitor and improve product conformity.

We are a 24/7 facility and a continuous process; an exciting challenge for those who want to make a difference. We are therefore looking for a candidate who is driven, ambitious, innovative, and curious, willing to own their KPIs and push to improve them.

Ours is a broad remit with a commitment first to safety, sustainability, and quality. As a business, we have set challenging targets in all of these areas, and we will deliver our objectives together as a team. With our quality KPIs measured in complaints per million square meters and ten thousand tonnes, we encourage proactive behaviours to deliver system improvements. We want to identify and implement the best and most appropriate methods and we encourage knowledge sharing and building relationships with like-minded people in our businesses across the globe to achieve this.

This is a role for a person who is flexible and open-minded with a genuine passion for continuous improvement. If you share our vision and believe you have what it takes to deliver, then we would love to hear from you.

Key Accountabilities:

Champions health and safety standards, behaviours, and improvements.
Orchestrates effective investigations into complaints including processing of associated documents on the complaints system, ensuring progression of investigations and their successful completion.
Shares and develops ideas for improvement within the Integrated Management System
Conducts thorough system and document reviews and subsequent change control
Plans, conducts, reports, and follows up Step 0 audits in all areas of the plant
Compiles and develops weekly and monthly reports for shift managers and senior leadership team
Hosts shift quality meetings and presents relevant information
Responsibility for update of Quality & Process Control Pillar books
Develops and maintains communication with operators to improve sample compliance
Quality KPI data collection and analysis to identify opportunities for improvements across the plant
Supplier non-conformance management What kind of person are we looking for?

Educated to degree level in relevant engineering, manufacturing, or business systems discipline or able to demonstrate extensive experience in manufacturing quality control and engineering.
Excellent communication skills at all levels within an organisation
Proven experience in driving continuous improvement
Experience in the practical application of TPQM techniques such as Six Sigma, statistical analysis, DMAIC, 8D, Kaizen, and other appropriate quality/process improvement tools.
A data driven individual experience in the use of Minitab, SPC and other similar data driven decision making tools.
Trained and experienced in internal audit processes - ISO9001 Lead Auditor.
The ability to organise and prioritise your workload to meet the needs of the business
A strategic and innovative thinker and early adopter of new technologies Are British Gypsum and Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?

Saint-Gobain is the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

And what about flexibility?

The world of work is changing. At Saint-Gobain, we're always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments. We'll happily discuss any need you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you. We can't promise to meet every request when we're recruiting. But we do promise to listen.

If you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person, we look forward to hearing from you