At Red Bull Powertrains, we’re redefining F1 power unit technology, pushing the limits of innovation and manufacturing grand prix winning power unit components. Join a team of talented individuals and visionaries dedicated to creating the future of motorsport. If you have the passion and expertise to drive excellence, the challenge starts here.
Working from our Milton Keynes factory you will be integrated to provide positive, proactive and collaborative Quality Engineering support to RBPT Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering, Inspection and our Sub-Contract Suppliers to ensure an efficient flow of the right quality parts to stock. You’ll develop strong working relationships, promoting a quality assurance approach using the necessary tools, and to support and challenge the business to continually improve our quality performance and technical capability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver the quality assurance strategies for internal manufacturing, as agreed with the department leadership.
- Analyse, report and monitor performance metrics for the quality performance of manufacturing; using statistical process control techniques where required.
- Investigate manufacturing issues where the problem has escaped the manufacturing facility, initiate containment and ensure the issue is effectively resolved using robust problem-solving techniques.
- Work with manufacturing and sub-contract suppliers to resolve non-conformance using a prioritised and risk-based approach.
- Perform risk reduction activities by identifying themes and completing improvement projects, using a proactive risk based and data driven approach.
- Plan, conduct and report on manufacturing facility audits to pro-actively evaluate business risks.
- Collaborate and support manufacturing to reduce the perceived risks.
- Support design for manufacture/inspection activities by collaborating with Manufacturing, QC and Design to ensure the design output is achievable; building in quality into the design at concept stage and manufacturing processes at the outset; ensuring measurement system capabilities are understood and proven where possible for inspected features.
- Act as the voice of the customer to sub-contract suppliers: driving improvements, reporting quality performance and enabling an effective working relationship.
- To successfully onboard new sub-contract suppliers ensuring the Red Bull requirements are fully understood and suppliers can comply.
- Collaborate with Supplier Quality to ensure alignment of documentation and procedures, inputting into updates that benefit both internal and external departments.
- To drive and deliver projects supporting the continual improvement of processes and systems.
Ensure risk-based detection strategies are deployed to detect non-conformance.
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What We’re Looking For:
- Degree level qualified OR sufficient experience in a manufacturing engineering/quality role.
- Strong understanding of the implementation and use of preventative Quality Tools:
o DFM, SPC, MSA, FMEA’s and Control Plans
o Knowledge of Problem-Solving Tools such as:
o 8D
o 5-Why
o Ishikawa
o Is-Is Not
- Experience in a manufacturing machine shop environment.
- Qualifications and experience in auditing/lead auditing (preferred but not essential).
Understanding/appreciation of Metrology principles and measurement techniques/equipment.
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At Red Bull Powertrains, we turn challenges into opportunities and ideas into race-winning innovation. We’re a high-performance team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and pushing limits. If you love solving complex problems, thinking fast, and making a real impact, this is the place for you. Alongside a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy:
- Bonus scheme
- Private healthcare
- A pension scheme
- On-site gym
- Free daily food allowance
And many more!
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Most importantly, you’ll be part of the team driving our championship-winning cars to success. If you’re ready to test your limits and win big, apply now.
