Continuous Improvement Engineer
Posted 11 days 19 hours ago by EMS Physio Ltd
£26,000 - £30,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Oxfordshire, Wantage, United Kingdom, OX12 9FE
Job Description
Job title: Continuous Improvement Engineer
Responsible to: Operations Manager
Department: Operations
1) Purpose of job and primary objectives:
- To analyse operational processes and identify, evaluate and implement improvement
- To work within Operations and Supply Chain teams
- To develop new processes and policies.
- To learn and train manufacturing and business methods and train other staff
2) Main duties:
- Maintenance and control of internal documents that form part of the QMS. Including work orders and instructions, with revision, amendment and release activities.
- Staff training and support.
- Support of QA and NPI activity including investigation, data collection, and review.
- Application of problem solving, process control, data analysis,and teamwork.
- Ownership of yield, cycle time, conformance, and other metrics as appropriate
- To communicate with internal technical, logistical and sales departments to ensure appropriate corrective and preventive actions are identified and fully implemented in response to customer complaints.
- To carry out internal audits to an agreed audit schedule and to identify appropriate corrective and preventive actions assisting with the implementation of preventive actions as required.
- To support the non-conforming material process.
- To support the CAPA process.
3) Supervisory and managerial responsibilities:
None.
4) Other responsibilities: money, equipment, materials:
- To comply with relevant Health and Safety at Work requirements.
- Other reasonable jobs as required within the department including direct manufacturing for prototyping and production cover ( 5% of time).
5) Decision making:
- The identification and implementation of appropriate corrective and preventive actions with regard to the QMS.
- To identify customer complaints that may require the vigilance procedure to be invoked.
6) Knowledge and skills required:
- Degree level or similar in related subject.
- Internal auditing skill and experience to ISO 9001 and ideally ISO 13485.
- Microsoft Word. Excel (including pivots, xlookup and macros) Powerpoint and others.
- Ability to communicate across departments, at all levels, and externally to customers and suppliers.
7) Working Hours:
- The following working hours apply
08:00a.m. 16:00 p.m. Monday to Friday