QHSE Manager - MPG

Overview

Are you looking for an exciting growth opportunity with a global company who is the top of its class? Are you passionate about automotive? MPG is seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking QHSE Manager to own and elevate Quality, Health & Safety, Environmental standards, and Facilities management across our European operations. This is a high‑impact leadership role, central to our operational excellence strategy.

You’ll shape the systems, culture, and processes that ensure our products meet the highest standards, our people work safely, and our facilities operate efficiently. If you’re passionate about building robust systems, empowering teams, and driving continual improvement across multiple sites — we want to meet you.

• Leadership:
  Develop and lead a cohesive QHSE function that supports all operational areas (production, procurement, logistics, etc.);
  Define and communicate a clear Quality and EH&S vision aligned with the company’s operational and strategic goals;
  Manage and mentor QHSE/Returns teams across multiple sites (8-10 people), ensuring consistent standards, tools, and performance expectations;
  Be an active leader in the Operations organisation driving change and continuous improvement
• Quality Management:
  Own and maintain the company-wide Quality Management System and Quality Policy;
  Ensure ISO 9001 certification is achieved and sustained at designated locations;
  Develop, harmonise and implement consistent quality standards, procedures, and specifications across all MPG operations;
  Ensure all processes comply with relevant safety, legal, and international standards;
  Conduct regular audits and reviews to ensure adherence to internal and external quality requirements
• Quality Assurance & Control:
  Ensure that all products (manufactured in-house and sourced from suppliers) meet requirements;
  Work closely with customer-facing teams to understand expectations and ensure they are met or exceeded;
  Analysing, identifying and implementing manufacturing and/or business process improvements which will improve capability and performance;
  Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Purchasing and key suppliers to improve product quality;
  Integrate supplier quality standards across sites;
  Lead initiatives to reduce internal and external quality issues;
  Support manufacturing teams by providing quality assurance expertise and best practices;
  Conduct inspections, reviews, and testing (e.g., First Article Inspection) to validate part quality;
  Investigate quality concerns, lead root cause analysis, and collaborate cross-functionally to develop and implement corrective actions
• Returns Management:
  Oversee customer and vendor returns processes, ensuring timely inspections, root cause identification, and corrective action;
  Manage centralised returns operation, improving turnaround times and supporting customer service effectiveness;
  Collaborate with Procurement and Supplier Quality to process RTVs (Return to Vendor), scrappage, or rework decisions;
  Monitor return trends, identify recurring issues, and recommend process improvements
• EH&S:
  Develop & maintain occupational health and safety policy and governance arrangements;
  Develop and maintain a health and safety management system that reflects legal and good practice standards;
  Develop and maintain a process for health and safety inspections and audits to monitor performance. Measure and report health and safety performance;
  Identify hazards and complete risk assessments / incident investigations;
  Align health and safety decision-making with business decision-making and risk management;
  Advise on the maintenance and improvement of safe systems of work;
  Train and educate SNG Group colleagues to enhance the health and safety culture
• Facilities:
  Overseeing facility based activities including security, parking, cleaning, building works etc;
  Ensure all facilities meet environmental, health and security standards;
  Ensure that facilities / amenities, such as water, heating, air-con etc, are well-maintained;
  Management of the company vehicle fleet