Quality Assurance Manager

Overview

In this senior role, you will lead the Quality Department across two manufacturing plants, driving a true quality-first culture and owning the quality management system. You will steer certification, audits, and continuous improvement to reduce defects and variability in high-integrity casting. You will shape customer quality strategy, manage complaints and corrective actions, and develop a high-performing team. This is a impactful leadership position at a specialist heavy engineering business focused on customer satisfaction and quality excellence.

Pay / Benefits

• private healthcare
• flexible working hours
• leadership role
• dual-site responsibility

Responsibilities

• Lead the Quality Department across two manufacturing plants and promote a quality-first culture
• Own and improve the Quality Management System, including certification processes and change control
• Lead customer and supplier audits and manage audit planning/preparation
• Drive corrective actions, root-cause analysis and targeted improvements to reduce defects
• Manage customer quality activities including complaints, non-conformances, returns and containment actions
• Oversee data-driven quality improvement and trend analysis to reduce variability in casting quality

Key requirements

• Proven quality leadership experience in foundry/heavy engineering or high-integrity manufacturing
• Strong experience with QMS, audits, compliance and customer quality/corrective actions
• Confident in leading teams and driving improvement using data and quality tools
• Experience with managing audits, containment, and corrective actions

• leadership
• communication
• problem-solving
• QMS management
• audits and compliance
• root cause analysis

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