Quality Manager

Quality Manager

We are seeking an experienced Quality Manager to join a recognised aerospace design and manufacturing company. To provide essential support to the business and production departments by ensuring that work in progress is monitored and maintained effectively. Work under the supervision and guidance of the senior Management team.

Key Job Outcomes

• Ensure that processes needed for the Quality Management System (QMS) are established, implemented and maintained for both design and manufacturing.

• Report to senior management on the performance of the QMS and any need for improvement.

• Promote awareness of customer requirements throughout the organisation.

• Liaise with the external assessment body on all matters related to the external accreditation process. In more detail, the following specific actions relating to ISO 9100 rev “D”

• Ensure that a document control procedure is adopted to approve, review and update all changes to critical documents within the scope of the QMS.

• Ensure that records are established and maintained to provide evidence that the QMS is being followed and that there is a system in place for the identification, storage, protection, retrieval, retention and disposition of such records.

• Review performance of the QMS at planned intervals to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness. This review means assessing opportunities for improvement and the need for changes to the QMS.

• Ensure that Quality Objectives are set by senior management for measuring the performance of the QMS and that these are regularly reviewed.

• Ensure that all new staff are inducted into the requirements of the QMS related to their own roles and responsibilities. Provide update training as and when necessary.

• Ensure that all suppliers used by the organisation are selected, evaluated and re-evaluated and that records of this assessment are maintained.

• Lead teams in a proactive manner to achieve and maintain the business Quality standards

• Align the Quality workload in line with the business throughput demands therefore ensuring seamless customer deliveries

• Ensure that senior management undertakes periodic but regular assessments of customer satisfaction and those consequent improvements are identified and implemented.

• Ensure that an internal audit programme is adopted to verify that the QMS conforms to planned arrangements, QMS arrangements and is effectively implemented and maintained. Ensure that appropriate action is taken when this is not the case.

• Analyse data on the effectiveness of the QMS and evaluate where continual improvements of the QMS can be made. This shall include data generated as a result of monitoring and measurement and from other relevant sources. Co-ordinate continual improvements of the QMS, ensuring that evidence of corrective and preventive actions taken are recorded and reviewed.

Person Specification

·A minimum of five years’ experience working in a Quality Aerospace environment required.

.Experience of working to AS9100 Rev D standard is essential.

·Experience of successfully managing a team.

·Engineering degree or appropriate Quality qualifications are desirable.

.Ability to work under pressure.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to join a busy and rapidly expanding aerospace company based in Bangor, North Wales. The role will allow you to work in a thriving manufacturing environment that is consistently growing