Quality Assurance Officer

Victrex, a global leader in the high-performance polymer solutions sector, is actively looking for an experienced and diligent Quality Assurance Officer to uphold our exceptional standards of quality and ensure the continual satisfaction and safety of our customers across our key markets including automotive, aerospace, and medical industries. This role is pivotal for someone who relishes challenges and aspires to work in a vibrant, innovative environment.

As a Quality Assurance Officer, you will serve as the quality lead on project teams, ensuring compliance for relevant products throughout their full lifecycle. You will approve product batch releases from a quality perspective and define, manage, and implement plans to achieve quality assurance compliance for products and processes. Additionally, you will manage customer complaints, implement corrective and prevent reoccurrence actions, and conduct root cause investigations using established industry-standard methodologies.

In addition, you will act as the primary quality assurance support for the assigned manufacturing plant or area, promoting operational excellence and adherence to quality and regulatory requirements.

Reporting to the Quality Manager, you will plan, execute, and report on validation activities both internally and in collaboration with suppliers and customers. You will also define and manage testing activities for products against relevant international standards and make recommendations for appropriate actions.
The role also involves participating in and supporting all audits, as well as liaising with internal and external customers or third parties to ensure quality assurance compliance.

• Our ideal candidate will have experience working in a highly regulated industry, ideally manufacturing, automotive, or aerospace.
• You must have experience with Quality Management Systems and auditing to a minimum standard of ISO 9001.
• Preferably, you should have Quality Assurance and auditing experience with systems compliant to AS/EN9100 or IATF
  16949.
• You must hold a degree in a relevant Science or Engineering discipline or possess equivalent experience in a related field.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, proficient computer skills, and excellent communication skills are essential.

Apply today and join a global leader in innovation and quality.
NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE.

At present, we are not accepting any candidates via a recruitment agency or third party.

Victrex is an innovative world leader in high-performance PEEK (Poly Ether Ether Ketone) and PAEK (Poly Aryl Ether Ketone) polymer solutions focusing on the strategic markets of automotive, aerospace, energy and industrial, electronics and medical. Every day, millions of people use products and applications containing our materials – from smartphones, aeroplanes and cars to energy operations and medical devices.

With over 40 years of experience, we are developing world leading solutions with PEEK and PAEK-based polymers and selected semi-finished and finished parts which enable environmental and societal benefit for our customers and our markets and drive value for our shareholders

At Victrex, we have a clear purpose: to deliver transformational and sustainable solutions that address global material challenges.

Our core values of passion, innovation, and performance are at the heart of everything we do. We are a company that thrives on human-centred leadership, valuing curiosity, adaptability, and collaboration in a fast-paced, digitally enabled world. We believe in empowering individuals, rather than seeing barriers to progress.

We are looking for individuals who are comfortable working in an environment that values digital and AI-driven solutions, who see technology as an enabler rather than a challenge. At Victrex, we foster a culture of continuous learning, agility, and adaptability, where employees are encouraged to embrace new ways of working, leverage data-driven insights, and drive meaningful change.

As we continue to evolve, we need people who are not just contributors but change accelerators ……