Quality Technician

About the Role You will join ZF Lemforder UK Limited's Quality team in Darlaston, United Kingdom, supporting the manufacture of high-quality products and the protection of customer requirements throughout the production process. As a Quality Technician, you’ll help ensure each shift meets customer and internal quality requirements through inspections, process verification, audits, containment activities, and timely problem solving on the shop floor. The role focuses on maintaining product quality, process stability, and customer satisfaction. What You'll Do

• Complete First Off inspections, including CMM dimensional verification, for machining and assembly lines at start-up, tool changes, batch changes, and resets, verifying parts against engineering drawings, control plans, and CTQ/CSI requirements, signing off documentation, releasing equipment for production, and stopping/escalating non-conformances.
• Validate critical machine settings and parameters in line with standardized work, control plans, and Poka Yoke requirements, ensuring timely verification, accurate record keeping, and escalation of deviations through abnormality reporting.
• Conduct in-shift End of Line (EOL) inspections, layered process audits (LPAs), product audits, torque audits, assembly checks, and functional verifications against customer and internal standards, while isolating suspect products and identifying defect trends.
• Verify and monitor alternative or abnormal processes, including manual rework, special tooling, and repaired equipment, ensuring authorised concessions and rework instructions are followed and that unauthorised process deviations are reported immediately.
• Lead or support containment activities for supplier, internal, and customer quality concerns, implementing quarantine controls, 100% inspection, controlled shipping activities, and providing ongoing updates on containment status and defect trends.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineers, Production Supervisors, and operational teams to support root cause analysis, sorting activities, verification processes, and the effective resolution of quality issues.
• Participate in structured problem-solving activities using 5 Why, Ishikawa, 8D, and DMAIC methodologies, providing inspection data, measurement results, and shop-floor validation of containment and corrective actions to ensure recurrence prevention.