Quality Manager

Job Description

Salary: £69k - £80k

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Are you passionate about driving quality excellence in a complex, high-technology environment where your influence directly impacts customer satisfaction, product performance, and business success?

As a Quality Manager within Leonardo’s Electronic Warfare business, you will play a pivotal role in shaping quality culture and ensuring the successful delivery of products and programmes that meet the highest customer and regulatory expectations. Working closely with Programme Managers, Engineering, Manufacturing and Senior Stakeholders, you will lead a team of Quality Engineers while providing strategic quality leadership across the full product lifecycle.

• Lead the deployment of the Quality Strategy within your assigned Sector, promoting a proactive culture of quality, continuous improvement and customer focus.
• Provide Leadership and governance across projects, products and services, ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory and business requirements.
• Develop strong relationships with internal and external customers, acting as the primary quality focal point for your business area.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of Quality Engineers to deliver quality objectives, build capability and drive high performance.
• Drive effective Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) activities, ensuring sustainable solutions are implemented and lessons learned are embedded.
• Support programme teams through quality planning, risk management, project assurance and lifecycle reviews.
• Support the management of non-conformance, customer complaints, cost of quality reduction initiatives and continuous improvement activities.
• Establish and monitor meaningful quality performance indicators to support data-driven decision making.
• Represent the Quality Function at Sector, Programme and Integrated Project Team reviews.
• Deliver independent quality assessments and assurance activities that support programme delivery and risk reduction.

• Proven experience in a quality Management or Senior Quality Engineering role within aerospace, defence, electronics, advanced manufacturing or other highly regulated industries.
• Strong Knowledge of quality management systems and standards such as AS9100 and ISO 9001.
• Demonstrable experience leading Root Cause Corrective Action investigations using recognised methodologies such as 8D, DMAIC or equivalent.
• Experience applying risk-based quality management and continuous improvement techniques.
• Strong Quality Governance and Assurance experience.
• Ability to analyse complex data, identify trends and implement effective improvement strategies.
• Experience leading and developing teams, driving accountability and delivering results through others.
• Experience working within programme, engineering and manufacturing environments.

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit:

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

• Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time…