1. Exciting Quality Management role in Aerospace Manufacturing
2. Well established industry leading manufacturing company.
About Our Client
Our client is a well established aerospace manufacturing company who are now recruiting a Quality Manager.
Job Description
The purpose of this role is to ensure that the companies' processes deliver products and services that meet customer expectations and requirements, in compliance with legal, regulatory and company requirements. The Quality Manager must ensure that all of his / her direct reports and all others who have an impact on product and service quality are aligned and capable of meeting the essential criteria. The role is responsible for developing the necessary skillsets within the company to support this. They must be capable of communicating at all levels inside and external to the company and ensuring that documentation and relevant records including performance metrics are produced and communicated to all stakeholders* Maintenance of accreditation to AS9100 and NADCAP and obtaining extensions to approvals when required* Manage customer approvals and audits.* Customer liaison including dealing with customer complaints and defect investigations.* Ensuring that direct reports can carry out process improvement and root cause analysis. This will involve development of staff and ensuring that documentation is maintained.* Process improvement and root cause analysis* Production of Quality System Metrics/KPI's set by Quality Manager* Own daily management process around QA metrics and collaborate with key stakeholders of business* Continuing development of the quality management system* Management, coaching, mentoring of the quality system team.* Effective performance reporting to internal management and to customers* Ensuring that quality system team meets its performance objectives and contributing the achievement of divisional performance objectives
The Successful Applicant
You will have the following background, capabilities and experience:* Good verbal and written communication. * HND / HNC minimum in an engineering/quality/manufacturing discipline or equivalent hands on exposure* Certified AS EN 9100 or ISO9001 lead auditor, Member of the Chartered Quality Institute or other professional body* Robust knowledge of NADCAP regulation or another safety critical or highly regulated* Proven in a similar position in the Aerospace, automotive, medical device sectors, or any other highly regulated or safety critical industry;*lean manufacturing, six sigma methodologies* Awareness of APQP* Knowledge in PFMEA * Investigation tools such as 8DAttributes:* To have Integrity* Respectful to others* Creative in finding ways to do things better* Act ethically in all you do* Collaborate well with others and lead from the frontCompetencies:* Microsoft Office* PowerPoint* Excel* ERP/MRP systems* Excellent communicator with the ability to present ideas at the highest level* Completer finisher with good project management abilities* Hands on approach to coaching and mentoring
What's on Offer
3. £50,000 to £60,000 plus bonus & benefits