Quality Engineer

Are you detail-oriented with a passion for Quality? Join our team as a Quality Engineer and play a key role in maintaining top-tier quality standards!

At Doncasters we have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join our team in Oxford, AL.

In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring that the products produced meet quality standards required to minimize quality costs and maximize customer satisfaction whilst ensuring that procedures and processes are adhered to.

Why join us?
Did you know that every time you take a flight, drive somewhere, or switch on a light, there's a chance Doncasters played a part in making that happen?

As a leading international manufacturer of specialist superalloys and high-performance alloy components, we provide critical solutions to some of the world's most demanding industries, including aerospace, Industrial Gas Turbines, automotive, medical, and other specialist sectors.

With a heritage spanning nearly 250 years, we've built a global reputation for technical excellence, innovation, and engineering that performs where it matters most. Today, we operate across 20 sites worldwide, employing almost 3,000 professionals. This includes engineers and production teams to HR, marketing, and other support functions, who are united by a shared sense of purpose.

At Doncasters, we believe in doing things the right way. That means acting with integrity, delivering with commitment, and working as one team to achieve more, together. Whether you're developing precision-engineered components, running world-class manufacturing operations, or supporting our people and processes, your role is part of something much bigger.

Join us and contribute to a legacy built on performance, precision, and the values that drive us forward - excellence, commitment, teamwork, and integrity.

What we can offer you:

• An interesting and varied field to work in

• An environment where you can learn and grow through constant development opportunities

• PTO

• Competitive 401K

• Competitive medical insurance

Key responsibilities:

• Checking, verifying, and generating certification packs to meet customer contractual requirements.
• Assist in the creation of custom rework routings within ERP.
• Data entry into ERP and QMS as needed.
• Support the management of all quality-related issues within the manufacturing team (e.g. internal, supplier, customer and customer warranty)
• Identify root cause and instigate permanent corrective actions for product quality issues;
  Carry out product, process, and workmanship auditing.
• Ensure control plans and associated documentation are implemented effectively and maintained.
• Monitor and report on quality-related key performance indicators including scrap monitoring, rework levels, parts per million (PPM) figures.
• Training and mentoring production roles as needed to support effective understanding and maintaining compliance to the QMS.
• Submitting First Article Inspection plans and fixed process approvals in customer portals or other formats as needed.

Qualifications:

• Previous Quality Assurance experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Six Sigma skills.
• Experience of dealing with customers and suppliers.
• Relevant manufacturing/engineering degree preferred.
• Knowledge of Quality Management system (TS16949/ISO
  9001).

Equal Opportunities:
Doncasters is committed to achieving workforce diversity and we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, national origin, race, age, sex, gender identity, disability- physical or hidden, sexual orientation, veteran status, religious belief, or any other characteristics protected by law. We provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We encourage all applicants to reach out if they require any support or accommodations to enable them to thrive throughout our recruitment process.

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Experience of working within a metallurgy environment and a clear understanding of ISO 9001. Additional experience of leading and managing teams is advantageous but not essential.

We are keen to hear from individuals who are passionate about quality and cross functional auditing with experience in root cause analysis tools including DMAIC, FMEA, 8D etc.