Quality Engineer - Manufacturing

Overview

Drive Excellence as a Quality Engineer! At Kingspan Insulation we're seeking a proactive and skilled Quality Engineer to play a key role in elevating product quality and advancing our continuous improvement initiatives. This is a full-time, permanent position based at our Castleblayney site in Ireland, where you'll work closely with our Quality Manager and collaborate across a knowledgeable, high-performing team. As a core contributor to our lean manufacturing system, you'll support activities within the Quality Pillar framework to ensure our products meet compliance standards, our processes operate efficiently, and our performance consistently excels.

Partnering with Operations, you'll take ownership of problem-solving, drive meaningful improvements, and apply your expertise to strengthen our quality culture and operational results.

• Develop a full understanding of product quality critical characteristics, standards, and third-party certification requirements.
• Apply in-process and final product specifications effectively to ensure consistent conformity.
• Maintain accurate inspection and test plans within SAP, ensuring they are fully understood and followed.
• Support production team leaders in applying quality standards to all manufactured products.
• Carry out product quality inspections and conduct measurement system analyses (including gauge R&R).
• Identify opportunities to improve production methods or equipment to enhance product quality and customer satisfaction.
• Cooperate with management on site-wide continual improvement programmes.
• Lead reporting, investigation, and corrective action implementation following accidents, incidents, or events.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to resolve quality issues, including customer complaints.
• Conduct internal process, product, and supplier audits to ensure ongoing compliance with internal, customer, and third-party requirements.
• Support third-party product certification activities and group compliance audits.
• Promote recognised problem-solving tools and techniques to investigate and prevent quality issues.
• Lead improvement projects using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to reduce the overall cost of quality.
• Perform regular internal audits of Kingspan controls, processes, and procedures to identify deficiencies or opportunities for improvement.
• Plan and implement robust corrective actions to eliminate causes of non-conformities.

• Degree / Diploma level qualification in Engineering, Science or Quality.
• Experience with in a similar role.
• Application of problem-solving tools.
• Excellent numeracy skills and ability to analyse data for trends.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent organisational and strong workload prioritisation skills.
• Experience of working with various IT programs i.e. MS Word, Excel.

• Internal auditor qualification.
• Qualification in Lean Manufacturing or equivalent.
• Experience with in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to lead quality improvement project teams.
• QC laboratory testing experience.
• Investigating customer complaints.
• Familiar with SAP.
• Experience of working with and understanding ISO and EN Product Standards.

• 25-days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive salary range
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted health care

We are entrepreneurial, collaborative, and we stand behind a common cause – better buildings for a better world. Kingspan Insulation are a leading manufacturer of high-performance rigid insulation within the construction industry and have 188 sites worldwide.

Do you have the skills we are looking for? If so, click ‘apply’ now to be considered as our Quality Engineer
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