Head of Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration package
  , with performance‑related bonuses and clear progression opportunities.
• Enhanced Pension plan with up to 8% employer‑matched contributions to help you plan for the future.
• 25 days’ holiday + public holidays
  , with long‑service rewards and the option to buy up to 5 additional days.
• Free breakfast and freshly cooked lunches every day, courtesy of Chef Mark and his team.
• Private healthcare through Aviva, keeping you feeling your best.
• Life assurance for peace of mind.
• Salary sacrifice schemes – including EV car and Cycle to Work options for easy, sustainable travel.
• Professional Development Fund – £250 annual budget to invest in learning, training or development opportunities that matter most to you.
• Paid team socials – from quiz nights and football to board games and more; we love to have fun together.
• A culture that empowers – we enable change, encourage challenge, and celebrate personal growth.

• Influence quality culture: Use excellent communication skills to influence other stakeholders to ensure quality is seen as the responsibility of the whole company.
• Lead and develop teams: Support and develop the Quality and H&S teams, creating an environment that encourages ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership and coaching: Strengthen capability, consistency and structure across the function as the business continues to scale.
• People & Capability: Foster talent development through effective performance management, coaching, succession planning, recruitment and wellbeing initiatives.
• Build strong relationships: Foster effective collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing and wider business functions.

• Quality Leadership: Own the QMS, quality strategy and governance framework, ensuring compliance, scalability and continuous improvement.
• Business Improvement: Influence and partner with leaders across the organisation to drive quality excellence and operational performance.
• Issue Management: Lead the resolution of significant quality, customer and audit‑related issues, ensuring effective corrective action and risk mitigation.

• Support manufacturing excellence: Work closely with Manufacturing, Production Engineering and Supply Chain teams to improve operational quality and manufacturing consistency.
• Drive practical improvements: Implement risk‑based quality improvements that enhance reliability, throughput and scalable operations.
• Oversee operational quality activities: Manage NCRs, supplier quality, audits, inspection systems and process validation activities.

• Lead HSE strategy: Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, regulations and safe working practices across the business.
• Promote a proactive safety culture: Support effective risk management, training and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Facilities & Growth: Lead facilities management and infrastructure planning to support safe operations, compliance and business scalability.

• Support systems integration: Help align ERP and operational systems with the QMS and wider business management systems.

• Quality leadership experience: Significant experience leading Quality functions within engineering or manufacturing.
• Strong QMS expertise: Experience developing and managing ISO‑based Quality Management Systems within regulated industries.
• Operational quality knowledge: Strong understanding of manufacturing quality, audits, RCCA processes and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Collaborative leadership style: Able to build credibility and influence across engineering, manufacturing and senior leadership teams.
• Pragmatic approach: Comfortable balancing rigour, compliance and operational agility within a fast‑paced business.
• Hands‑on mindset: Equally comfortable contributing strategically and engaging operationally where required.
• Calm and credible: Maintains a calm, methodical approach under pressure and is confident constructively challenging and influencing across functions.
• ERP and systems…