Job title: Senior Quality Engineer - Manufacturing
Job type: Contract
Emp type: Full-time
Pay interval: Daily
Pay rate from: GBP £450.00
Pay rate to: GBP £525.00
Location: Southampton
Job published: 24/07/2026
Job ID: 45250
Contact name: Emma Homann, Mark Burgess
Phone number: +441962442047, +441962442045
Contact email: emma@talentlocker.co.uk, mark@talentlocker.co.uk

Job Description

Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer
Outside IR35 | £450–£525 per day | Southampton | On-site | 6 months initial contract

Looking for your next contract with a global manufacturer?

This opportunity will see you leading the quality and validation of new products, manufacturing equipment and production processes, ensuring everything is compliant, audit-ready and successfully transferred into production.

Working alongside engineering, manufacturing and R&D teams, you'll be the quality lead across new product introductions, design transfers, process validation, engineering changes and continuous improvement. You'll influence project teams, manage quality activities throughout the product lifecycle and help deliver robust manufacturing processes within a highly regulated environment.

You'll need experience with:

  • Manufacturing Quality Engineering within a regulated industry
  • Process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
  • New Product Introduction (NPI), Design Transfer or Product Transfer
  • GMP, FDA and Quality Management Systems (QMS/eQMS)
  • CAPA, NCRs, change control and FMEA/risk assessments
  • Lean, Six Sigma and statistical quality tools (SPC)

Outside IR35 | £450–£525 per day | ASAP start

If you're an experienced Manufacturing Quality & Validation Engineer with a background in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, life sciences or another highly regulated manufacturing environment, we'd love to hear from you.