Engineering Documentation & Quality Support Role
Stockport | Permanent | £25,000 – £35,000
Overview
The organisation is a long‑established engineering manufacturer supplying complex, safety‑critical systems. They operate across manufacturing, engineering, project delivery and business support functions, and are expanding their team with a documentation‑focused quality support professional.
The role provides essential support in maintaining production documentation, certification records, and traceability information required for internal review, customer acceptance activities, and formal quality assurance processes.
📄 Key Responsibilities
- Document control — Maintain all physical and digital documents in a structured, auditable format.
- Change control tracking — Number, register, distribute and track technical queries, change requests and related documentation.
- Audit trail management — Provide full traceability of incoming and outgoing project documentation.
- Quality checking — Verify correct revisioning, titles, numbering and formal document standards.
- Production data updates — Review, complete and update production documentation in line with project timelines.
- Build pack compilation — Collate release certification and build documentation for customer acceptance.
- Certification traceability — Record traceability and verify accompanying certification meets customer expectations.
- Quality liaison — Interface with customer quality representatives when required.
- Cross‑functional support — Work closely with procurement, production and quality teams.
- Occasional inspection support during assembly, pre‑delivery and acceptance activities.
🎓 Essential Qualifications & Experience
- Degree, HND, HNC or significant experience within an engineering/manufacturing environment.
- Full UK driving licence.
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Working within defence, government or regulated engineering contracts.
- Use of ERP or quality management systems.
- Knowledge of ISO 9001 or equivalent quality standards.
- Familiarity with certificates of conformance, material certificates or test reports.
- Understanding of basic quality assurance and non‑conformance processes.
🔧 Key Skills & Behaviours
- Works effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail, disciplined work ethic and continuous improvement mindset.
- Excellent communication and knowledge‑transfer skills.
- Able to take responsibility within defined work instructions.
- Committed to ongoing professional development.
- Confident challenging poor practice and escalating appropriately.
- Reflective, improvement‑focused approach to working practices and training needs.
🎁 Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Early‑finish Fridays
- Life assurance
- Company sick pay
- Employee wellbeing support
- Additional holiday rewards
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme
- Free on‑site parking and EV charging
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