Quality Engineer

## Quality EngineerApplylocations: ADEY Stonehousetime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdaytime left to apply: End Date: July 20, 2026 (12 days left to apply)job requisition id: JR102271Closing Date for Application:Sunday 19/07/2026ADEY, the market leader in the provision of residential water treatment products for closed loop heating and cooling systems in the UK, is looking for a Quality Engineer to join the team. Part of the Genuit Groups’ Climate Management Solutions (CMS) business unit, ADEY has ambitious growth plans to continue protecting the world’s heating and cooling systems, to have a positive impact on the environment and people’s lives.**The Role** The Quality Engineer plays a pivotal role in ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality products across both internal assembly operations and the external supply chain. With primary responsibility for day-to-day quality performance within the assembly facility, this role provides hands-on support to production, driving rapid issue resolution, robust process control, and right-first-time outcomes. Reporting to the QHSE Manager, with a dotted-line to the Product Quality Manager, the role also leads and develops a small team of Quality professionals to ensure effective execution of quality priorities and continuous improvement activities.Working cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, R&D, and Supply Chain, the Quality Engineer ensures that new and existing products meet defined quality standards, supports successful new product introduction, and maintains compliance with the organisation’s Integrated Management System and ISO 9001 requirements.This is a highly visible role requiring strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to influence at all levels to embed a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement throughout the business. Travel within theUK is required as part of the role.**Responsibilities*** Provide hands-on daily quality support to the assembly facility, ensuring issues are identified, contained, escalated, and resolved efficiently to maintain production flow and product quality.* Act as the primary quality contact for production, driving rapid problem-solving and root cause analysis using structured methodologies such as 8D, RCA, and DMAIC, ensuring effective and sustained corrective actions.* Lead and develop two Quality professionals, ensuring effective prioritisation, clear accountability, and alignment to business and production objectives, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.* Develop, implement, and maintain robust process controls, including PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, and MSA, ensuring capable and consistent manufacturing processes.* Perform product inspection and measurement activities to verify conformance to drawings and specifications, supporting both production and supplier validation.* Lead and support the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for new products and engineering changes, including developing and maintaining the PPAP system and ensuring supplier compliance.* Support new product introductions (NPI) to ensure quality standards are achieved at launch and sustained through production, maintaining robustness of product builds.* Qualify, approve, and develop suppliers through audits, capability assessments, and risk evaluations, including manufacturing, technological, and HSE considerations.* Conduct regular supplier audits and performance reviews, using KPIs to ensure alignment with ADEY expectations for quality and delivery.* Manage supplier non-conformances (NCRs), ensuring effective containment, root cause investigation, and implementation of permanent corrective actions.* Work closely with suppliers to reduce variation, scrap, and rework, driving continuous improvement initiatives.* Support on performance improvement programmes, monitoring key metrics such as PPM and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).* Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, R&D, and Supply Chain to ensure effective resolution of quality issues and continuous improvement of processes and products.* Support customer-specific requirements, providing technical guidance to suppliers and internal teams as needed.* Support and contribute to the Internal Audit programme, ensuring compliance with the Integrated Management System (IMS) and maintaining ISO 9001 certification.* Assist in external audits and ongoing compliance activities, ensuring business readiness and adherence to quality standards.* Provide clear reporting and communication of quality performance, risks, and improvement activities to the QHSE Manager, Product Quality Manager, and wider business.**The Person*** Extensive experience in a small to medium lean manufacturing environment with a strong background in supplier quality activity.* HNC in Engineering · Knowledge of ISO 9001 /TS 16949 Management Systems Strong technical background including geometric tolerancing, understanding technical drawings etc.* Experience with PPAPs* Problem solving tools, 8D, 5Ys* Experience of component measurement techniques* Experience using a Coordinate Measuring machine (CMM)* Qualified Lead Auditor with experience of supplier and product & process audits* Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.)* Able to work autonomously with minimal supervision* Can prioritize tasks effectively**The Benefits*** 25 days holiday* Pension contribution matched up to 8%* Life Assurance 3x base salary* Genuit sharesave schemeHere at the Genuit Group we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group’s success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool. We have a role to play in making the built environment more sustainable, building a low carbon business ourselves as well as delivering sustainable solutions at scale.### About UsADEY are market-leaders in the heating and cooling sector, working alongside plumbing and heating engineers to help protect homes and commercial buildings from the damage caused by dirty water in the heating system. Through their award-winning product range, ADEY has become a well know brand in the UK with MagnaClean, and now operates in over 19 countries worldwide. As we as working alongside the trade, ADEY also supports the homeowner with advice on how to protect their heating systems and how to maintain ADEY products which have been fitted in their homes.Our goal is to protect the world’s heating and cooling systems, to have a positive impact on the environment and people’s lives. We believe that how we work together is the key to our success. Our vision combined with our values create an environment where talent can thrive.* **Community**: You will be part of an inclusive, supportive and vibrant team.* **Integrity**: We are honest and show strong moral and ethical principles.* **Trust and openness**: We seek to build trust and we are open in communications.* **Challenging**: We respectfully challenge each other, and the marketplace, to be better.* **Inspire and create**: We try new things and learn together.We are each other’s toughest critics, biggest challengers and loudest supporters.#J-18808-Ljbffr…