Quality & Compliance Engineer

Rise Technical Recruitment LimitedHoughton Le Springreedpublished 10/26/2026

About the company

The company are a long-standing, globally recognised manufacturer with an excellent reputation in their industry. Due to maternity cover, they are now looking for an experienced quality professional to join their team on a 12-14 month fixed term contract.

Your tasks

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role across product quality and regulatory compliance, supporting projects from design and development through to manufacture, testing and release.

Within the role, you will develop and maintain robust quality processes, support production teams, review performance data and investigate non-conformances to establish effective corrective and preventive actions. You will also inspect and evaluate medical devices, assist with regulatory activities and audits, and help ensure clean-room production continues to meet the required standards.

  • Support quality and regulatory requirements across design, manufacture and testing
  • Maintain quality procedures, analyse data and manage CAPA activities
  • Support medical device inspections, audits and clean-room production
  • 12-14 month maternity cover contract
  • 8am - 4pm Monday to Friday

Requirements

Are you a Quality or Regulatory Engineer with experience in medical devices, looking for a varied fixed term contract within a specialist manufacturing environment?

This position would suit a Quality or Regulatory Engineer with experience of medical device quality systems who is looking to make an immediate impact within a stable, forward-thinking manufacturer.

The Person

  • Quality, Regulatory or Quality Assurance Engineer
  • Engineering, Life Sciences or related degree
  • Medical device regulatory or quality systems experience
  • EU MDR, ISO 13485 or technical documentation experience advantageous

What we offer

£37,000 - £40,000 + 12-14 Month Fixed Term Contract +Excellent Training + Holidays + Enhanced Pension + Monday-Friday + Great Benefits Package*

How to apply

Reference Number: BBBH281453 To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact Josh Cooper at Rise Technical Recruitment.

Other

Houghton Le Spring (Commutable from Sunderland, Newcastle, Washington, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Newton Aycliffe, Billingham, Peterlee, Consett, South Shields)*

Quality, Regulatory, Compliance, Medical Device, Audit, Manufacturing_, Engineering, Life Sciences_

The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.

Contact person

Listed by the employer in the job posting — for questions and your application.

  • Josh Cooper