Senior Production Quality Manager

Job Description Summary

You must hold a UK passport to be considered for this role. Our Quality Engineering team serves as the critical link between design, manufacturing, and customer delivery. We go beyond traditional inspection, embedding quality into every stage of the product lifecycle to build enduring confidence with customers and stakeholders. Through a proactive, prevention-focused mindset and data-driven decision-making, we strengthen capability, reduce risk, and deliver measurable operational and business improvements while maintaining the highest standards of safety, reliability, and performance.

As the Senior Production Quality Manager at our Rugby site, you will set the quality agenda as a visible and decisive leader on the shop floor. This is a hands-on operational role where you will influence production outcomes, balance competing priorities, and make critical quality decisions with confidence and authority. Supporting low-volume, highly specialised manufacturing for the defence, aerospace, and heavy industrial sectors, you will ensure quality standards remain uncompromising while enabling the delivery of complex customer commitments.

As a key member of the site leadership team, you will strengthen accountability, champion digital transformation, and drive the operational excellence needed to advance our manufacturing capability and long-term performance.

Maintain a daily, proactive presence on the shop floor to monitor performance and identify process risks before they affect delivery. Review legacy processes to drive the adoption of modern, effective methodologies. Provide daily leadership to the quality teams setting clear objectives and development plans. Maintain rigorous performance management standards to ensure alignment with manufacturing and quality goals.

Chair daily quality governance meetings and hold authority over GO/NO-GO decisions. Monitor the RMR Quality Dashboard to identify trends, manage risks, and report performance to the leadership team. Drive measurable improvements in customer and internal escapes, Product COPQ, inspection backlogs, audit completion, and production recovery activities.

Define risk-based inspection strategies and lead production quality readiness activities, including FAT and pre-FAT milestones. Establish expectations for reliability engineering and analytical methodologies, including FMEA, DFMEA, FTA, and structured problem-solving approaches such as 8D and DMAIC.

Act as the primary technical point of contact for customer quality requirements, ensuring expectations are understood and achieved. Lead Lean Quality initiatives and chair weekly Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reviews to drive sustainable corrective and preventive actions.

Data-Driven Quality:
Experience leveraging digital quality systems, performance analytics, dashboards, and ERP platforms such as SAP to drive informed decision-making and operational excellence. Champion Visual Management, Kaizen activities, and lessons learned programmes to strengthen manufacturing robustness, quality performance, and operational efficiency.

Professional Expertise: A degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or a Quality-related discipline (or equivalent professional experience) with a proven track record in manufacturing quality leadership. Team Leadership:
The ability to coach and develop talent across diverse engineering teams. Quality Transformation:
Demonstrated success in leading quality transformation, moving beyond traditional inspection to embed quality at the source through modern, digital quality systems. Technical

Skills:

Advanced expertise in Root Cause Analysis (RCA), CAPA, ISO 9001, Lean manufacturing principles, and KPI management. Operational Influence:
Experience influencing manufacturing strategy and driving operational excellence within high-compliance environments.

You must hold a UK passport for Security Clearance (SC) to be considered for this role and a full UK driving licence.…