About the Job

🎯 Quality Engineer
🌍 London, N4
🏛️ 4 days in our office, 1 day working from home
💰 £40-50k per annum

Join Shellworks as a Quality Engineer and help us materialise a better future by eliminating plastic pollution.

About Shellworks

Developed for a throwaway culture, plastics have caused significant pollution to our natural environments with 90% of all plastics ever created never being recycled. More so, recent studies have identified that plastics impact goes beyond pollution to chemicals and micro-plastics that impact human and environmental health.

We believe there must be a better way and our first innovation Vivomer does just that, if nature made plastic this would be it. Vivomer, a polymer made by microorganisms, behaves just like plastic in use but degrades upon disposal in any natural environment. Developed through cutting-edge material science, mechanical engineering, design, and operations, Vivomer represents a groundbreaking step towards a pollution-free future.

The nature of our work is frequently described as impossible, but if like us, you’re driven by the challenge to prove that there is a better way to do things, join us. You will play a critical role in developing the future of materials, and how products are created and directly contribute to reducing plastic pollution.

The Opportunity

This is a unique opportunity to work on scaling the future of materials inspired by nature. When you join us you’ll get to:

• Design, implement and own a scalable Quality Management System (QMS) tailored to a startup environment, ensuring it supports rapid growth and flexibility and is delivered to the appropriate cost, quality and timing.

• Implement and oversee quality control processes at partner facilities, including incoming material inspections, in-process checks, AQLs, and supplier audits (requires travel across UK, Europe and ROW).

• Be the first point of contact and lead root cause analysis for any quality issues or non-conformances identified, working closely with production partners to implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) and ensure that all quality issues are resolved promptly and that lessons learned are applied to prevent recurrence.

• Define, design and implement test methods and appropriate controls across the value chain to ensure products continue to delight our customers.

• Work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment with a talented and passionate team.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrable experience in quality engineering, preferably with a background in both large industrial manufacturing and startup environments.

• Strong understanding of quality management systems, supplier quality management, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Proficiency in quality tools such as FMEA, SPC, DOE, and Lean Six Sigma.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead root cause analysis and drive corrective actions.

• Highly adaptable and proactive, with a strong focus on delivering results.

• Detail-oriented with a commitment to maintaining high standards of quality.

• Innovative mindset with a passion for improving processes and driving efficiency.

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, capable of managing relationships and negotiating with external partners and internal stakeholders.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.

• Passion for combating the plastic pollution crisis.

Our Benefits

🌴 21 days holiday + birthday off + 27-31st December, in addition to all statutory and public holidays.
🎉 Regular social events and fully stocked office kitchen
🐚 Part of a tightly knit team aiming to make a meaningful social impact.

Department

Operations & Supply Chain

Locations

Shellworks London

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