Product Assurance Lead

Product Assurance Lead | Rolling Stock / Rail Industry Location | Lowry Park, Manchester  (role suited to candidates motivated by challenge, impact, and long-term career growth)

About the Opportunity

A newly created Product Assurance Lead position is now available within a major rolling stock organisation. This is a rare chance to shape and govern product quality across multiple fleets, depots, and engineering projects. If you thrive on building structure where none exists and enjoy influencing technical and operational teams, this role offers a meaningful platform to make your mark.

Role Purpose

The Product Assurance Lead will centralise and oversee product quality processes across all projects, ensuring technical standards and quality requirements are consistently applied, validated, and continuously improved.

Key Responsibilities

Defect management and product safety investigations
Governance of quality assurance processes beyond ISO 9001
Continuous improvement through audits, trend analysis, and training
Acting as the central point for quality governance across depots and projects
Key Deliverables

Implement a centralised product quality governance framework
Establish defect management and incident investigation processes
Conduct cross-fleet defect trend analysis
Develop and embed product safety and quality management systems
Deliver quality-focused training programmes
Support audits and continuous improvement initiatives
Skills & Experience

Strong engineering background (mandatory)
ISO 9001 auditing/quality systems experience (desirable)
Analytical capability for data collation and trend analysis
Ability to influence and engage technical and operational stakeholders
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Flexibility to work predominantly on‑site
Closing date:
Tuesday 20th January

About Ford & Stanley group
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