Quality Engineer
Employer not yet confirmed · Rivarotta Udine, Italy
Role Scope and Accountabilities
- Spend approximately 70% of working time in production areas, with the balance dedicated to analysis, reporting, investigations and corrective-action follow-up.
- Provide operational quality oversight for an assigned plant while collaborating across the wider three-plant manufacturing organisation.
- Operate primarily on a daytime schedule while recognising that manufacturing activity continues across shifts; prioritise risk-based coverage and effective handovers.
- Own timely detection, escalation and containment of internal product and process nonconformities; lead or coordinate root-cause investigations within the agreed quality governance model.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform in-process visual and dimensional inspections of products, components and assemblies throughout manufacturing operations.
- Verify compliance with engineering drawings, technical specifications, work instructions, inspection criteria and control plans.
- Execute planned inspections on critical orders, products, projects or manufacturing processes and conduct risk-based shop-floor spot checks.
- Document findings clearly, communicate issues to the relevant functions and follow through on agreed actions and closure dates.
- Detect, record and report nonconformities; ensure timely identification, segregation and containment of affected materials and products.
- Lead or coordinate root-cause analysis for internal manufacturing issues, involving Production, Process Engineering and other specialists as needed.
- Support definition and implementation of corrective and preventive actions and verify their effectiveness.
- Analyse recurring defects, scrap, rework, nonconformity and complaint data to identify trends, process weaknesses and improvement priorities.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of control plans, inspection methods, work instructions and quality standards.
- Participate in manufacturing-quality and continuous-improvement initiatives designed to reduce defects, variability and customer risk.
Key Relationships
- Production Managers, Shift Leaders and shop-floor teams.
- Process Engineering and Industrial Engineering.
- Supplier Quality, Customer Quality and Quality Systems, where relevant.
- Maintenance, Lean and other support functions involved in corrective actions.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology or a related technical field; a relevant technical diploma combined with substantial applicable experience may be considered.
- Relevant experience in Quality Engineering, Quality Control, Manufacturing Quality or a production environment; industrial manufacturing experience is preferred.
- Practical experience managing nonconformities, containment, root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Working English is preferred; ability to communicate effectively in the local manufacturing environment is required.
Technical Competencies
- Reading and interpreting engineering drawings, tolerances and technical specifications.
- Dimensional inspection techniques and use of appropriate measurement equipment.
- ISO 9001 quality-management principles, control plans and inspection procedures.
- Root-cause and corrective-action methods such as 5 Why, Ishikawa and structured problem solving.
- Basic statistical process control, quality metrics and trend analysis.
- Microsoft Office and relevant quality/NCR reporting systems.
Behavioural Competencies
- Visible, hands-on shop-floor presence and sound judgement.
- Attention to detail combined with analytical, risk-based thinking.
- Constructive challenge, clear communication and effective cross-functional collaboration.
- Ownership, urgency and disciplined follow-through.
- Continuous-improvement mindset and focus on sustainable solutions.