QHSE Manager

Location: Willenhall

Job Title:

QHSE Manager
 Department:
Quality, Health, Safety & Environment
Reporting To:
Technical Director

Location:

Willenhall

Employment Type:

Permanent
Salary: £60,000
 
Role

Purpose:

The QHSE Manager is responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining the company's Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental management systems, ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, customer requirements, industry standards and company procedures.
 
The QHSE Manager will provide leadership across quality assurance, health and safety, environmental management and continuous improvement. The role will work closely with production, engineering, purchasing, sales, warehouse and senior management to ensure that products consistently meet customer and specification requirements while maintaining a safe and environmentally responsible workplace.

Key Responsibilities:

Quality Management

· Maintain and continuously improve the company's Quality Management System.

· Ensure compliance with relevant standards, including ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001, customer-specific requirements and applicable industry standards.

· Develop, maintain and control quality procedures, work instructions, inspection plans and associated documentation.

· Ensure fasteners conform to relevant specifications, drawings, standards and customer requirements, including where applicable DIN, ISO, EN, ASTM, BS and customer-specific specifications.

· Oversee incoming, in-process and final inspection activities.

· Establish appropriate inspection and testing requirements for raw materials, components and finished products.

· Monitor product quality throughout manufacturing processes including, where applicable, cold forming, heading, thread rolling, machining, heat treatment, plating/coating, sorting, packing and dispatch.

· Manage non-conforming product, ensuring appropriate identification, segregation, investigation and disposition.

· Lead root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions using appropriate problem-solving techniques.

· Monitor customer complaints, returns, concessions and quality-related issues, ensuring timely investigation and resolution.

· Establish and monitor quality KPIs and communicate performance to senior management.

· Work with suppliers to resolve quality issues and improve supplier performance.

· Support customer audits, supplier audits and third-party certification audits.

· Ensure measuring and test equipment is appropriately controlled, calibrated and maintained.

· Promote a culture of right-first-time manufacturing and continual improvement.
 
Fastener & Product Compliance

· Maintain knowledge of relevant fastener standards, specifications and product requirements.

· Ensure material and product certification is correctly controlled and traceable.

· Oversee the management of certificates of conformity, material certificates, inspection reports and other customer documentation.

· Ensure appropriate batch, heat, lot and product traceability throughout the manufacturing and supply chain.

· Support technical review of customer specifications, drawings and quality requirements.

· Ensure appropriate controls are in place for special processes such as heat treatment, surface treatment and coating.

· Manage product identification, labelling and packaging requirements.

· Support investigations into dimensional, mechanical, metallurgical, coating and other product-related failures.

· Liaise with external laboratories and specialist testing facilities where required.
 
Health & Safety

· Develop, implement and maintain the company's Health & Safety management system.

· Ensure compliance with all applicable UK health and safety legislation and regulatory requirements.

· Conduct and review risk assessments,…