In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Quality Assurance Manager
Are you an inquisitive and impactful individual looking for an exciting, dynamic and interesting new role in Quality Assurance? Where no two days are ever the same? And where you can use your judgement and risk based thinking to support the programmes at Thales through many different decisions during the project lifecycle?
If so, we’d love to hear from you as we’re currently looking for Quality Assurance Manager’s to join our team in Crawley.
What the role has to offer:
* Customer focussed/facing with plenty of variety, interacting with all areas of the business
* Exciting challenge acting as the voice of the customer
* Hybrid working (3 days on site per week)
* We’ll also pay for your CQI membership and support formal certified training where appropriate e.g. lead auditor training
What’s does your day look like?
Reporting to the Quality Manager, you can expect to be involved in:
* Planning and performing project audits and surveillance activities in accordance with the Project Quality Plans and audit strategy
* Acting as the customer’s representative inside the project or bid team and looking to maximize customer satisfaction and support any actions
* Managing and analysing reports to continually improve quality within the project, and ensure the quality performance is managed and reported to meet project time-scales
* Encouraging and developing best practice, promoting a quality culture and environment of continuous improvement
About you
We’d be very happy to consider colleagues from outside of JF08 with a focus on soft skills and behaviours rather than Quality experience. Ideally you’ll:
* Possess excellent organisation, time and project management skills to deliver on time against competing priorities
* Be an excellent communicator and collaborator in order to build relationships with key stakeholders
* Be a problem-solver with the ability to resolve complex issues in varied contexts
* Possess the ability to analyse, design and implement processes improvements
* Be a critical thinker with sound judgement skills and have the ability to identify potential risks and propose mitigating strategies
* Have relevant experience working within Quality, ideally in a manufacturing or engineering environment (desirable not essential)
* Have knowledge of Quality working practices and standards (desirable not essential)
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!
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