Quality Control Engineer

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Quality Control Engineer Role Summary:

Join our team as a Quality Control Engineer, where you'll be instrumental in ensuring the highest standards of quality for our HVDC Power Transformer PDG. You'll lead the organization and technical support of our Quality inspection team, conduct competency validations, and oversee quality control validations across various production stages. Your role will involve meticulous measurement device calibration, spot checks, and compliance audits to uphold stringent quality standards. Additionally, you'll drive continual improvement in product compliance through process refinement and enhancement, while also managing internal quality record administration and providing valuable insights through End of Manufacturing Reports.

As a Quality Control Engineer, your passion for customer satisfaction and attention to detail will be essential in maintaining product integrity. You'll play a pivotal role in governance meetings, ensuring adherence to quality standards, and driving discussions around process improvement opportunities. If you're ready to contribute to our mission of delivering excellence in quality control within the HVDC Power Transformer PDG, join us and be part of a dynamic team committed to driving continual improvement and ensuring product excellence.

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Team Support: Organize and provide technical support to the Quality inspection team, ensuring their effectiveness in maintaining quality standards.
2. Competency Validation: Conduct Operator and Quality inspector competency validation to ensure adherence to quality standards.
3. Quality Control Validation: Ensure all internal quality control validations are clearly defined and followed, including Design gate stage sign-off, Incoming Goods inspection, and in-manufacture Quality checks.
4. Measurement Device Calibration: Oversee measurement device calibration governance to maintain accuracy.
5. Spot Checks and Compliance Audits: Perform spot checks at workstations and support workshop assessments, including compliance audits covering Industrial Rules and Quality control documented requirements.
6. Governance Meetings: Lead QR1 and QR2 meeting governance to ensure quality standards are met.
7. Process Improvement: Continuously develop quality control processes, including Design processes, Incoming Goods, and Manufacturing Control Plans, to drive improvement in product compliance and defect identification.
8. Record Administration: Manage internal design and Manufacturing quality record administration and storage.
9. Reporting: Review and consolidate End Of Manufacturing Reports for the engineering and manufacturing portion.

Qualifications / Requirements:

1. Transformer Expertise: Desirable in-depth knowledge of transformer design and manufacture.
2. Quality Control Skills: Expertise in Quality Control techniques.
3. Auditor Certification: Internal auditor qualification.

Desired Characteristics:

1. Attention to Detail: Excellent attention to detail to ensure high-quality standards are maintained.
2. Customer Satisfaction: Passion for customer satisfaction with a process-oriented approach.
3. Influencing Skills: Strong influencing skills and a team player mindset.
4. Drive for Improvement: Willingness to promote change, drive simplification, and champion continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Can Expect from Us:

1. Engaging and stimulating projects that offer professional growth opportunities.
2. A supportive work environment where we understand and accommodate diverse expectations regarding job roles, careers, and work-life balance.
3. Competitive compensation packages complemented by flexible benefits tailored to meet individual needs, including Employer pension contributions, Income protection, Private Health Insurance, and Life Assurance, along with generous vacation allowances and bank holidays.

About GE Grid Solutions:

At GE Grid Solutions we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space our goal is to accelerate the transition for a more energy efficient grid to fulfill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotal role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive to carbon neutral. In Grid Solutions we help enable the transition for a greener more reliable Grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.

Why we come to work:

At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge - and we're always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you'll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you'll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.