Quality Manager - Flexible Days Up to £45,000
Location: Leicester area
Team: 4 direct reports (including 1 Apprentice), customer-facing role
Your Opportunity
Join a well-established precision engineering business servicing heavy-duty sectors (yellow goods, agriculture, power &; rail) as a Quality Manager. Youll lead the quality function, look after a small team, engage with key customers and help drive continuous improvement across the workshop and measurement / inspection processes.
With flexible working days (giving you better work-life balance) and a competitive salary of up to £45,000, this is a great chance for a proven Quality professional to step up within a manufacturing / machining environment.
What's On Offer
* Salary up to £45,000 per annum
* Flexible working days (allowing you to work smarter)
* Lead a quality team of 4 (including managing and mentoring an apprentice)
* Customer-meeting responsibility you'll represent quality with major accounts
* Join a business certified to ISO 9001 and recognised for high precision manufacturing.
* Be part of a stable, growing engineering business where your contribution is valued.
What You'll Do
* Lead and manage all aspects of quality assurance and control: inspection, non-conformance, corrective actions, root cause, process improvement
* Oversee the team of 4, including one Apprentice, providing coaching and development
* Hold regular customer quality review meetings and act as their point-of-contact for quality queries
* Work with manufacturing, engineering and inspection teams to tighten tolerances, reduce rejects and improve first-pass yield
* Maintain and ensure compliance with ISO 9001 (and other customer specific standards)
* Analyse data, produce quality metrics, drive continuous improvement initiatives
* Collaborate with operations to embed quality culture and ensure machining/fabrication meets specifications.
What You'll Bring
* Proven experience (ideally 3-5 years) as a Quality Manager/Quality Engineer in a manufacturing, machining or fabrication environment
* Experience leading a small team and mentoring/mentoring apprentices or junior staff
* Strong customer-facing skills confident in meetings and able to articulate quality issues/resolutions to customers
* Solid knowledge of quality systems (ISO 9001), inspection methods, non-conformance control, root-cause analysis
* Analytical mindset: comfortable with data, metrics, reports and continuous improvement tools (e.g. 8D, 5 Why, SPC)
* Excellent communicator, organised, decisive and proactive
* A background in metal-working, machining or fabrication is highly beneficial.
Why Join?
* This is more than just another manufacturing job. You'll join a business that:
* Delivers high-tolerance components and is committed to quality.
* Offers you flexibility in your working day so you can balance life and work.
* Gives you responsibility, autonomy and a voice in shaping quality standards and improvements.
* Has a strong reputation in heavy duty manufacturing
How to Apply
If you're a Quality professional looking to step up, lead a small team, engage with customers and take ownership of quality in a manufacturing environment we want to hear from you. Submit your CV today or email us and well arrange a confidential chat.