Senior Quality Manager

Senior Quality Engineer

📍 Derby | Manufacturing Environment

We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join our team at our Derby manufacturing site. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in a fast-paced, high-quality production environment where your expertise will directly influence product performance, compliance, and continuous improvement.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be a trusted technical authority, working closely with production, engineering, and supply chain teams to ensure the highest standards of quality are consistently achieved.

Working Hours

* Monday – Thursday: 8.00am – 4.45pm

* Friday: 8.00am – 12.30pm ✔ Early finish every Friday

Salary

💷 £45,000 per annum

Benefits Package

* Competitive salary

* Company pension scheme

* 25 days annual leave + 8 statutory holidays

* BUPA private healthcare

* Death in Service benefit

* Long Service awards

* Free on-site parking

Core skills/Attributes needed:

Essential:

* Minimum of 5 years’ experience within the Aerospace Industry, AS9100 requirements & NADCAP

* Minimum of 10 year’s Engineering experience

* Experience in lean tools and practical problem solving such as 8D, Kaizen processes

* High attention to detail, good problem solver and strong communication skills

* In-depth understanding of engineering/technical documentation and specifications

* A natural leader, who can motivate and lead with excellent interpersonal skill

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills as this is a customer faced role

Knowledge and

Experience:

* Previous Internal auditing experience advantageous

* Experience in a quality control environment preferred

* First Article Inspection Report experience

* Experience of Machining, Fabrications and Treatments

* Chemical and special processes knowledge

* New Product Introduction & associated tools FMEA, APQP + PPAP Awareness

* Ability to resolve issues logically and methodically using proven methods

* Self-motivated with a desire to learn

Seniority Requirements:

A key part of this role will be interacting and communicating with shop floor operators, management and customers, it is essential you can communicate in a clear and concise manner

* Setting staff expectation inline with department and company objectives

* Ability to prioritise work based on criticality ensuring timescales are met

* Development, coaching & Support of others

* Manage and lead a team to achieve the set expectations

* Manage all quality-related issues within the manufacturing team (e.g. internal, supplier, customer)

* Monitor and report on quality-related key performance indicators including scrap monitoring, rework levels, parts per million (PPM) figures, NCR status

* Communicate throughout the shop floor, with peers, management and customers

* Carry out team supervision, development reviews & annual resource reviews

* Confident and effective verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Purpose of role and key accountabilities:

To provide Quality and Inspection support for both existing and new business opportunities and to develop the Right First-Time philosophy required to become a leading supplier of quality components to the aerospace industry

* Maintain quality control within the manufacturing process, in line with business standards and customer requirements

* Check and verify the compliance of components produced at all stages within business

* Identify reoccurring quality issues and communicate them to the chief inspector along with recommendations

* Assist in the 5

Why, Non-conformance procedures, RCCA & CAPA quality procedures and produce root cause analysis of product failures

* Represent the quality function at team meetings

* Support, develop and improve the relationship with quality contacts within our customer base

* Support and promote improvement activities to directly benefit product and processes

* To work within cross functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required.

* To support, develop, maintain and improve the company’s quality management system and conduct internal audits against the system

* To conduct root cause analyses, SPC and other appropriate quality tools and…