Overview
Quality Manager — Newbury, Berkshire
Salary: Circa £55,000
Quality Manager urgently required to work for a cutting-edge manufacturing site in Newbury. You can expect a varied and interesting role where you can make a real difference by utilising your Quality Expertise to help deliver on a product range that is unique and highly regarded within industry. We are looking for an experienced quality manager who has a background and experience ideally within aviation, aerospace, defence, Energy industries to work for a leading technology firm. We are expecting the successful candidate to bring a fresh perspective to and lead all Quality aspects on site.
What you'll do
* Drive product quality processes and adherence, promoting a best in class mindset across all departments within the business.
* Lead and manage Quality audits and inspections to ensure compliance and identify areas for improvement. Ensure findings arising from these audits are closed out in a timely manner.
* Review current quality and NCR processes to ensure these are currently fit for purpose and develop new business processes and training materials for any newly develop changes.
* Lead on NCR investigations, ensuring processes are being followed and reviews are being closed out to enable lessons learned to be integrated into any process changes needed.
* Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the organization.
* Review, develop and maintain a Quality Management System to comply with ISO 9001 & AS9100 standards.
* Assist the Purchasing department with supplier management, including auditing, performance monitoring, re-evaluation and continuous improvements.
* Conduct customer source inspection related tasks to ensure conformance to build standards and specification, including validation of product records and customer requirements, as required.
* Develop and maintain an EHS Management System to comply with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards.
* Lead, develop and maintain quality management systems (ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 14001, ISO 45001).
* Drive continuous improvement and best in class quality culture across the site.
What we're looking for
* Proven quality management experience in engineering / manufacturing environments, preferably with electronics or mechanical products.
* Skilled in ISO standards and quality tools (8D, Root Cause Analysis, Lean, Six Sigma).
* Audit training in latest ISO standards would be of benefit.
* Experienced in the implementation, development and maintenance of ISO 9001/AS9100/ISO 14001/ISO 45001 management systems.
* Experience of investigations using tools and processes such as 8D, Root Cause Analysis, Lean, process approach, 5S, etc.
* Experience of APQP, PFMEA & SPC is advantageous.
* Experience in Lean/Six Sigma principles.
* Strong communicator with ability to influence and drive results.
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About Proactive Global
Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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