Zenith People are working with our client who are currently recruiting for a Quality Manager to build and develop their current team of Quality Assurance Professionals.
Duties & Responsibilities
Pre SOP
- Project Quality activity with local and teams in and outside of the UK
- Managing quality activities from project concept through to series production
Post SOP
- Ensure conformance to requirements from goods in to shipped product.
- Lead the PQE and IPQC teams
Key Responsibilities but not limited to:
- Lead new project quality assurance activities following customer specific programs using APQP approach
- Achieve agreed KPI’s and Targets
- Co-ordinate and cascade new product documentation that meets corporate and local standards
- Project planning and execution ensuring specific tasks within cross functional teams are completed on schedule.
- Adapting to any changes in plans or circumstances
- Overseas work to support new model programs
- Extensive experience in new project planning role
- Development of the management systems related to the role.
- Lead PQE and IPQC quality assurance teams
- Ensure robust containment and corrective actions to process concerns
- Highlight trends from inspection activities and manage continual improvements.
- Develop staff at all QA levels
Skills, Experience and Requirements:
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels
- Coach, Mentor and develop the QA members in the team
- Staff management that includes hiring, appraisals, fact files and disciplinary processes as required
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – reporting throughout the business at all levels
- Project Quality experience – risk assessments/concept reviews/Lessons Learned/FMEA
- Budget management
- Previous experience setting up a team/department is required
- Full driving license and ability to travel at short notice (including overseas).
Qualifications:
Degree level in an appropriate technical subject or similar experience
If you are an experienced Quality Manager and would like to be considered for this vacancy please click apply now.