Your Company:A manufacturing business is searching the market for a Quality Manager to join the team in Bournemouth. The company provide excellent solutions to their clients, across a number of niches including aerospace, automotive and industrial, among others. Due to recent success they are investing in their future, expanding many of their internal teams and reaching a wider customer base.This position will be fundamental in ensuring that the business is able to deliver their products and services, in adherence to quality standards and regulations, with the position holder having responsibility for the quality processes in place, reviewing how these are implemented across the business and always be keeping continuous improvement at the forefront of their thoughts.Your Roles and Responsibilities:
- Handling any quality related issues that come about
- Keeping expert knowledge of any quality market information or trends and ensure this information is relayed to the appropriate professionals in the business, as well as communicating with regulatory and government entities when required for matters relating to ISO9001, FM, MET or ATEX
- Conducting internal audits for areas within the ISO9001 quality system, including specific audits when needed alongside customers' Quality Assurance Representatives
- Managing the quality team, including KPI setting, professional development, recruitment and training of junior staff members
- Ensuring that quality standards are adhered to with suppliers, conducting supplier and vendor appraisals/assessments, whilst monitoring sub-contractor performance and also providing input into major contracts or tenders to address quality related matters
- Reviewing and providing input into procedures and operations relating to the design and manufacture of products/services, giving advice on suitability and applicability and measuring the impact of quality activities on deliveries, products and services
- Producing and gaining approval of quality plans and statements for both projects and products, providing support on documentation such as procurement conditions and specifications and proposals, and provide ad-hoc project engineering support on projects and contracts
What you will need to Apply:The ideal candidate for this role will have previous relevant experience within a Quality Management position, whereupon the applicant has gained excellent knowledge into all aspects of Quality Management systems (QMS), has built up an extensive knowledge for the requirements of ISO9001 and has an understanding of Product Specific approval requirements such as FM, ATEX and MET. Previous experience using 8D reports, corrective action planning and root cause analysis is also sought after, alongside knowledge of Lean/Sigma business improvement tools. Strong communicative skills are required for this position. What you will get in Return:For the successful candidate, a beginning salary of potentially up to £60,000, which will accompany an excellent package including a bonus earning potential, strong holiday offerings and pension, alongside plenty of other attractive incentives and merits.You'll also be given the tools to advance your career within the manner of your choosing, with support from senior management to achieve targets, leading to progression within the business and career development. There will also be ample training provided as well as market-leading material to enable you to advance your learning as appropriate to ensure your knowledge is kept up to date. If this excellent opportunity interests you, then please don't hesitate to apply today!