Quality Manager

• Manage the quality department to ensure that site objectives are met in a timely manner, including inspection, laboratory and nondestructive testing (NDT) processes
• Liaise with the engineering and production departments to troubleshoot on a daily basis and work towards eliminating sources of non-conformance using an analytical approach
• Responsible for quality key performance indicators (KPIs) and objectives to provide plans for measuring continuous improvement
• Develop action plans to meet site KPIs; cascade tasks and objectives to help the site and team members achieve their goals
• Carry out annual personnel appraisals and identify development and training requirements, then develop and implement plans to fulfil those requirements that are aligned with the site strategy
• Manage and monitor site quality and processes and maintain the necessary site approvals to satisfy quality and customer-specific standards
• Liaise with customers, managers and staff to ensure quality management systems (QMSs) are functioning correctly within the business
• Liaise with customers and suppliers as necessary where they are affected or impacted by quality issues and develop improvement plans
• Responsible for implementing corporate and site initiatives.

Qualifications, experience and skills:

• Experience of AS9100 and Nadcap
• Thermal coatings experience is advantageous
• Metallurgical laboratory experience is also advantageous as is the ability to examine coating cross-sections for hardness, porosity, unmelts and grit entrapment.

Salary/package:

• Eligible for annual company bonus
• Pension match contribution from 4%-10%
• Life assurance of two times annual salary
• Employee assistance programme, including access to wellbeing app
• Free parking on all sites
• Free refreshments provided
• An entitlement to full pay while off sick for a limited number of days (in addition to statutory sick pay entitlement)
• 25 days’ holiday plus national holidays.