Quality Manager Allied Protek Excellence in Engineering

The Quality Manager will provide quality support across the company’s engineering and fabrication activities, with responsibility for ensuring projects and workshop activities meet customer, contractual and relevant industry requirements.

The role is hands-on and will cover quality planning, welding, inspection, NDT, documentation, audits and non-conformance. The Quality Manager will work closely with Production, Engineering and Project Management to identify and resolve quality issues and make sure the right inspection and quality controls are in place.

The role will also coordinate quality resources when required and support the Assurance Manager in developing the company’s quality systems and processes.

Quality & Inspection

• Provide day-to-day quality support to the workshop and projects.
• Plan and coordinate inspection activities and ensure suitable resources are available.
• Prepare and review Quality Plans, ITPs, and inspection requirements.
• Review drawings, specifications and scopes to identify quality and inspection requirements.
• Arrange and manage NDT and review NDT reports and radiographs.
• Carry out coating inspections where required.
• Support production teams with quality and inspection queries.
• Ensure fabrication and inspection activities are carried out in line with approved procedures and customer requirements.

Welding

• Develop and maintain WPS’s and PQR’s.
• Manage welder qualifications and prolongations.
• Review welding requirements and ensure suitably qualified welders are available.
• Prepare and review welding and inspection test packs.
• Maintain welding and inspection records and traceability.

Documentation

• Prepare and maintain manufacturing and quality packs.
• Ensure material certificates, inspection records, weld records, NDT reports and other quality documentation are complete and traceable.
• Maintain material and component traceability throughout manufacture.
• Compile and review final quality dossiers, manufacturing record books and lifetime records.
• Ensure documentation is completed progressively and outstanding information is identified and closed out before project completion.

NCR’s & Improvement

• Raise and manage NCRs.
• Carry out root cause investigations and agree corrective actions.
• Monitor corrective actions through to close-out.
• Identify recurring issues and recommend improvements.
• Work with Production and Project teams to resolve problems and prevent recurrence.

Audits & Compliance

• Carry out internal and supplier audits.
• Support customer and certification audits.
• Ensure compliance with relevant standards and customer requirements, including ISO 9001, EN 1090 and BS EN ISO 3834.
• Support the Assurance Manager with the ongoing development of the Quality Management System and certification requirements.

Resource & Team Support

• Coordinate quality and inspection resources for workshop and project activities.
• Identify resource requirements and raise these with the Assurance Manager.
• Provide technical guidance to Quality Engineers, Welding Inspectors and other quality personnel when required.
• Support recruitment, training and development of quality personnel as the function grows.

Cost & Planning

• Plan quality and inspection activities to support production and project programmes.
• Ensure quality resources are used efficiently.
• Coordinate external inspection and NDT services.
• Develop in-house inspection capability where practical and commercially beneficial.
• Monitor quality-related costs within agreed budgets.

Safety

• Follow company SHE procedures and lead by example.
• Work with the SHE team on relevant initiatives.
• Promote good safety and…