With over 100 years of engineering excellence, Ridgway Machines is a world-leading manufacturer of precision taping and winding machines for the electrical, energy, and oil & gas industries. Recently acquired by Tokamak Energy to accelerate superconducting technology, we're involved in some of the world's most exciting engineering projects—including ITER's Fusion Power Plant and CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
From innovative designs to global customer support, we deliver expert solutions for clients worldwide. Based at Meridian Business Park in Leicester, we're a skilled team of specialist engineers working at the cutting edge of power generation machinery.
Make a direct impact on quality performance across complex engineering and low-volume, high-value manufacturing projects
We are looking for a Quality Engineer to join our growing Quality team, reporting to the Quality Manager.
This is a hands-on role that will play a key part in driving right-first-time delivery, reducing quality issues, improving supplier performance and strengthening quality processes across the full machine lifecycle.
As the business continues to grow, this newly created position will provide additional quality engineering capability across our projects. The successful candidate will take ownership of day-to-day quality activities, ensuring products, processes and suppliers consistently meet customer, engineering and regulatory requirements while supporting wider continuous improvement initiatives.
A significant aspect of the role is working within a low-volume, high-value manufacturing environment , where many components and fabrications are sourced from specialist suppliers producing bespoke or small-batch parts. Quality issues can have substantial cost and programme implications, making supplier quality management a critical element of this position.
Working closely with Engineering, Project Management, Purchasing, Production, Machine Build and Installation teams, you will have the opportunity to influence quality standards across multiple functions and become a trusted technical partner throughout project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Maintain and continuously improve quality processes, procedures and systems.
Support quality planning and inspection activities across design, fabrication, machining, assembly, testing and installation.
Review engineering drawings, specifications and customer requirements from a quality perspective.
Develop and maintain inspection and test plans.
Carry out first-off, in-process and final inspections.
Support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and final machine release activities.
Manage quality records, documentation and traceability requirements.
Identify and mitigate quality risks throughout project execution.
Support ISO 9001 compliance, quality plans, document control and calibration activities.
Conduct internal, supplier, product and process audits.
Manage internal and supplier non-conformances through to effective resolution.
Lead and support root cause investigations using structured quality methodologies.
Analyse quality performance data and produce meaningful KPI reporting.
Work closely with suppliers to resolve quality concerns and improve performance.
Develop strong working relationships with specialist and small-batch suppliers to ensure quality requirements are understood and achieved.
Conduct supplier visits and source inspections for critical, bespoke or high-value fabrications and components.
Support supplier approval and supplier development activities.
Monitor supplier quality performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives across the supply chain.
Support risk-based quality planning for critical purchased components where quality failures could significantly impact cost, schedule or customer delivery.
Support the investigation and resolution of customer quality issues.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce defects, rework, scrap and customer complaints.
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