Job Description
Position: Quality Assurance Manager
Location: Basildon Essex
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 DOE
Quality Assurance Manager required to join a well-established precision manufacturing company that serves customers across automotive, aerospace, energy, EV, and advanced industrial sectors. They supply complex, high-precision parts where quality, traceability, and process control are critical.
The role combines management of quality systems and regulatory compliance with hands-on inspection and detailed quality activities, ensuring customer, supplier, and certification requirements are met.
Quality Assurance Manager Job Overview
1. Maintain and continuously improve the Integrated Management System (IMS).
2. Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, AS9100, and automotive/aerospace quality requirements.
3. Act as the primary point of contact for internal surveillance and external certification audits, supported by a consultant.
4. Manage customer complaints and non-conformances to closure using quality tools such as 8D methodology, maintaining the CAPA register.
5. Manage concession requests and quality alerts, maintaining appropriate registers.
6. Monitor and maintain internal quality KPIs.
7. Champion continuous improvement activities across the business.
8. Perform and manage ...