Quality Manager

Quality Manager – Precision Engineering

Location:

Nottingham

Salary: c £50,000 to £55,000

Benefits – Scope for a 4 day week

Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time

A leading precision engineering manufacturer is seeking an experienced Quality Manager to join its senior leadership team. This is an excellent opportunity for a quality professional with a strong manufacturing background to take ownership of the Quality Management System and drive continuous improvement across a highly regulated engineering environment. Working closely with Production, Engineering, Inspection, and Senior Management teams, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance, improving quality performance, and delivering exceptional customer satisfaction.

• Maintain and continuously improve the company's ISO 9001 Quality Management System.
• Ensure quality procedures, processes, and documentation remain compliant and up to date.
• Lead internal and external audits, ensuring successful outcomes.
• Manage corrective and preventive actions arising from audits and non‑conformances.
• Oversee inspection and quality assurance activities throughout the manufacturing process.
• Monitor product quality and ensure adherence to engineering drawings and customer specifications.
• Lead investigations into quality issues using structured root cause analysis techniques.
• Drive reductions in scrap, rework, customer complaints, and the overall cost of poor quality.
• Act as the primary point of contact for customer quality concerns and audits.
• Manage customer complaint investigations and ensure timely resolution.
• Support supplier quality activities, including supplier audits and performance reviews.

• Proven experience as a Quality Manager within a precision engineering, machining, or manufacturing environment (a skilled Engineer looking to develop into Management may also be suitable).
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.
• Experience leading internal and external audits.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and customer specifications.
• Strong understanding of root cause analysis and corrective action methodologies.
• Experience managing customer complaints and non‑conformance processes.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and quality reporting systems.
• Desirable: HNC/HND or Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality Management.
• Desirable:
  Lead Auditor qualification.
• Desirable:
  Experience with in aerospace, defence, oil & gas, or other highly regulated industries.
• Desirable:
  Knowledge of FAIRs, PPAPs, APQP, 8D, and Lean Manufacturing techniques.
• Desirable:
  Lean Six Sigma or Continuous Improvement qualification.