Quality Engineer

Closing Date For Application

Monday 31/08/2026

About Us

Polypipe Civils and Green Urbanisation, part of the Genuit Group, are a leading manufacturer for civils and infrastructure projects, with the industry’s widest range of engineered storm water & sewer management systems, Network and Green asset Solutions.

People are at the forefront of everything we do, we have a unique culture where you can be yourself, contribute your ideas to make continuous improvements and take pride in achieving results to support the overall success of our growing business. We recognise the value of investing in our people through comprehensive training and personal development courses.

Role Overview

As a Quality Engineer your focus will be to accelerate enhanced quality performance through the delivery of effective daily management, delivery of strategic projects and deployment of tools & techniques. Engagement with key business stakeholders will be key to ensure end-to-end quality is built into our products, processes, and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively engage with key stakeholders across Operations, Supply Chain, Product Management, R&D and Engineering to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support the Quality and Operations teams in delivering continuous improvement activities that enhance customer satisfaction and business performance.
• Increase standardisation, reduce variation and deliver quality improvement projects, including new product development and existing product portfolio activities.
• Implement, maintain and analyse quality metrics, conducting root cause investigations and driving corrective actions to improve processes.
• Support the development and delivery of the Quality Improvement Strategy aligned to the Genuit Business System.
• Capture and analyse customer feedback, using insights to improve performance and enhance communication across the business.

Develop and deliver quality-related training to build capability and reduce NCRs and customer support issues.

Deliver improvements to quality management systems, product specifications and standards, while supporting visual management and workplace organisation initiatives.

Apply continuous improvement tools and methodologies such as 8D, 5 Whys, Kaizen, Gemba, Pareto and SPC to drive business improvements.

Develop and implement plans to improve end-to-end quality systems, enhancing efficiency, productivity and cost effectiveness.

Skills And Experience

• Proven experience delivering Lean and Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Experience developing and implementing leading and lagging KPI metrics.
• Experience of project planning.
• Experience of visual management.
• Ability to plan and deliver effective meetings and training modules.
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Demonstrable involvement in Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement, Lean tools, Root Cause Analysis and Kaizen methodologies.
• Dynamic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to train, present and conduct workshops.
• Willingness to travel to other UK locations to deliver projects.
  
  

Benefits

• Entitled to 25 days holiday
• Pension contribution matched up to 8%
• Save as you earn Genuit Sharesave scheme
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Various health and wellbeing initiatives
• Staff discount on all Genuit Group products
  
  

Here 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.