Overview

Are you an experienced Quality Engineer looking for the next opportunity to advance your career, if so, look no further!

We are actively seeking a Quality Engineer to join our Coudersport team who can hit the ground running. We need someone who is customer service focused, and experienced with investigating and correcting quality issues.

At Morgan Advanced Materials, our rich history and dedication to innovation define who we are. Since our establishment in the UK in 1856, we have expanded globally, now operating across 70 sites in 18 countries. Our goal is to create a more sustainable world and enhance quality of life. We actively pursue this purpose through the development and production of advanced materials. 

Within our business unit, we specialise in innovating cutting-edge carbon, graphite, and carbide products that deliver outstanding performance. We use our expertise to tackle complex challenges across many diverse industries to provide effective solutions for our valued customers. 

Our products are shaping a better future; from enabling electric cars to charge faster and drive longer distances to maximising the operational efficiency of wind turbines. We are proud to help generate power for billions of people, deliver water to drought-stricken regions, improve the efficiency of industrial pumps, and protect lives both on the land and in the air. 

Key Figures: Revenue £1,100.7m (2024), ~8,000 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK.  Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Quality Engineer who can develop, implement, and manage quality control systems designed to ensure materials that meet or exceed our customers' expectations in an ISO 9001 manufacturing environment. The role reports directly to the Quality Manager.

Essential Functions:

• Ensure a high level of internal and external customer service. Investigate and correct customer issues and complaints relating to quality.
• Develop and analyze statistical data and product specifications to determine standards and to establish quality and reliability expectancy of finished products.
• Formulate, document and maintain quality control standards and on-going quality control objectives.
• Review customers purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.
• Work with Purchasing and/or other functions, as needed to review suppliers purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements.
• Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing, and inspection.
• Promote and execute quality standards, inspection processes, test methodology, quality plans, documents and reports. Develop, execute and analyze quality-reporting measures.
• Serve as the primary Quality Assurance resource to department supervisor(s) for problem identification, resolution, loss reporting and continuous improvement.
• Participate in internal and external quality audits.
• Address Non-Conformances from all internal and external audits.
• Follow-up on and close pending Preventive and Corrective Action Requests.
• Assisting the management team and provide QA support as necessary. Assist in process certification.
• Support concurrent engineering efforts by participating in design development projects representing Quality Assurance and the customer.
• Report to management on quality issues, trends and losses.
• Serve as the Quality Assurance representative to the Materials Review Board (MRB).
• Maintain active role on internal Continuous Improvement teams.
• Lead and/or support Advanced Quality Planning process.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications and Education Requirements

• ASQC Quality Engineering Certificate, B.S. degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Basic understanding of quality management systems in an ISO 9001/AS 9100 is a plus.
• Kaizen and Lean/Six-Sigma Manufacturing techniques are preferred.
• Experience with developing/documenting procedures is desired.
• Use of Quality Engineering methods in inspection is desired.
• Computer proficiency.

Individual must be a:

• Citizen of the United States, or
• Permanent resident alien of the United States, or
• Protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) as defined by 22CFR120.15

Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V Employer Ind-1