Quality Engineers - Special Vehicle Operations

Job description

Job Description

An ever-evolving heritage. A truly exciting future. Two of the world’s most iconic brands. Jaguar Land Rover is revered across the globe. Continually pushing the boundaries of innovation and redefining the benchmark for excellence, we set the standards others want to follow. We want to keep it that way too. Which is where you join the journey.

What to expect:

The vision of Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) is to significantly increase model line profits with the provision of high performance vehicles and specialised features.

Key strategy elements include :-

• Push the boundaries of the Brands to create Niche “Halo” sports & luxury products
• Enhance premium customer experience through vehicle personalisation and exclusivity
• Provide track built Premium Editions, Bespoke workshop builds and Armour derivatives
• Design and develop a highly profitable range of vehicles across all JLR Brands

The role:

The SVO Quality department at Oxford Road will be responsible for a range of activities which directly influence the external and internal quality performance of our products. These activities include supporting the Customer Acceptance Line; Supplier Parts Quality, PCPA Audit, Hydropulse and Water Test process.
We are currently seeking a Plant Feedback Engineer and a Plastics Process Engineer to support the function.
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Key Responsibilities:
Plastics Process Engineer
• Capture and analyse current state process maps
• Develop future state process maps
• Lead/Facilitate implementation of processes
• Establish measures of performance (KPIs)
• Specify IT system requirements needed to support production
• Develop and update process documentation
• Audit processes & set targets to measure performance
Plant Feedback Engineer
• Represent the voice of the customer and promote accelerated internal improvement to achieve total alignment between external and plant internal indicators
• Specifically, map internal quality data to plant quality measures to ensure that customer protection is in place for incoming quality and warranty issues.
• Champion Quality Proven Standardized Practices within the department and the plant.
• Utilize Time and Data Management maintain and develop SVO quality cadence
• Represent Oxford Road for received quality from plant

Desired profile

Candidate Profile

What you’ll need:
• Demonstrate capability and success within Production, Company Quality Experience or a Plant Quality Role. A 6-Sigma Black Belt certification is beneficial.
• Ability to analyse external and internal indicators and develop alignment.
• Resilience.
• Best practice replication.
• Having the vision, developing a plan and the ability to stay the course despite competing priorities.
• Flexibility.
• Good knowledge of MS Office Applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Project).
• Should be self-motivated with strong communication skills, ideally with experience of manufacturing quality
• Awareness of process control and capability analysis methods using them to drive improvement
• An ability to communicate across functional boundaries and at different levels is essential
• Be able to work independently, manage changing priorities, identify issues and solutions using
own initiative, coupled with a desire to make a difference and tenacity to achieve results
• Demonstrate drive, with a customer focussed approach and good organisational skills
• Demonstrate technical education and/or equivalent working experience in:
o Quality
o Process / Production role
o Supplier quality
o Manufacturing production methods
o Labour efficiency

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Benefits

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you will find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team. Our employees have access to a privilege car purchase scheme, membership of a competitive pension plan, performance related bonus scheme and 26 days holiday entitlement. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.