Quality Manager

Our client is a well established manufacturing company servicing the automotive, aerospace and industrial engineering sectors.

• Responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the organisation's quality department.
• Responsible to plan and ensure execution of all preventative quality measures.
• Responsible for planning and delivery of Quality training throughout the business.
• Responsible to ensure that all quality tools are fit for purpose, robust and efficient.
• Lead the recruitment and development of a medium to large quality team.
• Ensure the company is compliant with all necessary quality standards.
• Ensuring support is provided to permanently resolve any reactive quality issues.
• Responsible to ensure that cost of quality and cost of poor quality is captured and optimised.
• Responsible to ensure the effective KPIs are in place across the business to measure quality together with other functions.
• Provide support to new development projects to ensure that projects are developed so that quality targets are readily achieved.
• Work together with all functions to actively identify any issues that may place quality at risk and ensure corrective measures are implemented.

• Significant experience of quality management within the manufacturing sector - ideally automotive, aerospace, industrial engineering etc.
• Proven track record in leading a significant quality team.
• Ability to enthuse others within the organisation of the importance and benefits of quality.
• Able to demonstrate implementation of significant improvements to systems and ways of working.
• Ability to effectively influence and work collaboratively with others in the organisation.
• Ability to develop people both within and external to the quality team.
• Ability to clearly plan and prioritise the team's activities, ensuring that every activity is completed with a view to the overall plan.
• Able to demonstrate strong analytic approach and ability to effectively sort and utilise data.
• Able to demonstrate detailed understanding of all aspects of the quality management tools and process.
• Experience of implementing continuous improvement methodologies.

£65,000 to £75,000 plus bonus and benefits