ESE Quality Process & Status Tracking Engineer

Our OEM Client based in Dunton, Essex, is searching for a Senior Quality Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a 9 month contract position initially until 31st December 2025 with the potential for further extensions.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £29.43 per hour rising to £36.38 per hour after 13 weeks.

Position Description:

• Track V54 HV warranty status - R/1000, CPU across vehicles lines and total.
• Producing bowler charts with vehicle plants.
• Run weekly ECB meetings for HV applications with VO plants.
• Generate data from Ford systems such as QLIK to show failure trends.
• Track claims through ECB for HV applications <3MIS claim tracking and status management. Work with the commodity engineers to ensure 3MIS claims are correctly returned and status defined for FQR/DQR reviews.
• Pro-actively analyse trends in warranty data across HV system and sub systems/components.
• Create quality R/1000 stack charts and be able to analyse field data to identify trends and failure modes across EV applications.
• Carry out detailed analysis on failure mode claims – time in service, environmental conditions, time to sale, etc to identify data trends and potential root cause analysis.
• Feed into FQR weekly meetings quality status and any special deep dive actions.
• Align Eu processes with FNA team.
• Work with FNA quality teams on common metrics and reporting formats.
• Raise BSAQs as required with PVT team and correctly bin warranty claims with ECB/BSAQ system.
• Work with FNA OPD Quality engineers across systems on warranty status and issue resolution if required.
• Engage in early warning process lead by central quality team as required if with J1+120 of program launch.
• Develop working relationships with interfacing teams (FCSD, FNA D&Rs, STA).
• Support warranty spend actions - target setting, spend tracking documents and warranty Spend PAT forum as required.
• Support VQR review issue status and resolution.
• Support senior management reviews.
• Support PRA/PAC Process for any PHEV/FHEV & V36x HV items.
• Input to White Alert Items.
• Support QSF Process.

Skills Required:

• Prior OPD quality role experience and familiarity with relevant Ford systems AWS, GCQIS, BSAQ, 14D, QLIK, Data dashboards etc
• Knowledge of current hybrid technologies would be beneficial but not essential
• Ability to quickly obtain and grow knowledge in a rapidly developing technology.
• Ability to analyse warranty trends, identify field claims and implement containments with D&R team input
• Start up mentality – rapidly containing issues with can do attitude
• Strong oral and written communication/presentation skills with the ability to present to all levels of Ford management team
• Experience of using Ford quality system and tracking dashboards
• Experience of working with global teams
• Demonstrable experience of working independently
• Self-motivated with excellent diverse team working ethos

Education Preferred:

• Educated to degree level in suitable Engineering remit.