Quality Assurance Manager

Position:
Quality Assurance Manager

Location:
Basildon Essex

Salary: 40,000 - 50,000 DOE

Quality Assurance Manager required to join a well-established precision manufacturing company that serves customers across automotive, aerospace, energy, EV, and advanced industrial sectors. They supply complex, high-precision parts where quality, traceability, and process control are critical.

The role combines management of quality systems and regulatory compliance with hands-on inspection and detailed quality activities, ensuring customer, supplier, and certification requirements are met.

• Maintain and continuously improve the Integrated Management System (IMS).
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, AS9100, and automotive/aerospace quality requirements.
• Act as the primary point of contact for internal surveillance and external certification audits, supported by a consultant.
• Manage customer complaints and non-conformances to closure using quality tools such as 8D methodology, maintaining the CAPA register.
• Manage concession requests and quality alerts, maintaining appropriate registers.
• Monitor and maintain internal quality KPIs.
• Champion continuous improvement activities across the business.
• Perform and manage inspection, calibration, FAIR, and PPAP activities.
• Work closely with suppliers and customer quality teams.
• Manage RoHS, REACH, and other compliance documentation.
• Promote and embed a strong quality culture across the organisation.

• Proven experience in a manufacturing quality role.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and AS9100.
• Experience working with automotive and aerospace customers.
• Ability to manage quality systems alongside hands-on inspection work.
• Good working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings.
• Experience using CAD systems (e.g. Solid Works) - desirable.
• Experience with CMM operation and inspection - desirable.

• Permanent position
• Salary - 40,000 - 50,000 DOE
• Monday to Friday
• 33 days holiday allowance (including BH)
• Additional benefits in line with company policy.
• Pension scheme

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries.

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