Group Technical and QC Manager

Company: ESS Employment Ltd.
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Location: Yate
Job Description:

WORKING HOURS: Monday to Friday 8 am to 5pm (40 hours per week)

Yate Office: 01454 310031

Vacancy – Group Technical and QC Manager

ESS Employment Ltd are looking to recruit a Group Technical and QC Manager on behalf of our well-established client. This is a key role that manages the technical support team and is responsible for Group Quality control.

Duties for the role:

QC

  • Continuously improving current quality processes and systems to drive a constant reduction in group NCR numbers, in line with agreed targets
  • Raising and managing non-conformances (NCRs) from identification through to close-out, ensuring root cause analysis is thorough and corrective/preventative actions are robust and embedded.
  • Producing 8D and 5 Whys reports for major NCRs, along with other quality investigation tools as appropriate (e.g. Fishbone/Ishikawa analysis, Pareto analysis, FMEA, root cause corrective action plans)
  • Liaising with clients on quality issues to ensure outcomes are satisfactory, maintaining strong working relationships throughout
  • Responding to client queries relating to quality, and holding meetings as required with clients and suppliers
  • Ensuring that procedures are in place to ensure every order is quality control checked, with clear QC levels defined based on order importance, sensitivity, and complexity, applied consistently group wide.
  • Carrying out internal audits across the group to ensure systems and processes are being adhered to and remain fit for purpose.
  • Taking full responsibility for maintaining the group’s existing ISO9001, ISO14001, and ISO27001 accreditations

Technical

  • Leading a group technical support team
  • Gain clear understanding of how products are encoded and processed for ensuring that correct software is used to encode orders.
  • Overseeing set up process and assisting external software development teams set up software on new orders to encode orders.

Other:

  • All relevant responsibilities relating to Group QC & Technical Team leadership.

Requirements:

  • Alignment to company values – Customer focused Agile, Relentless, Difference Maker
  • Willingness to learn and adapt quickly to new challenges.
  • Self-motivated with the ability to research and figure out solutions independently.
  • Team player who can collaborate effectively across departments and sites
  • Attention to detail and pride in producing clean, well-structured work.
  • Good communicator — able to ask clear questions, challenge constructively, and share ideas confidently with clients, suppliers, and colleagues.
  • Ability to summarise information succinctly for management review in Excel (Excel proficiency for data analysis and reporting)
  • Problem-solving mindset with a logical and curious approach
  • Calm and methodical under pressure, particularly when managing client expectations during NCR resolution.

The benefits:

  • High growth business and environment to progress in
  • Bonus scheme equating to 5% additional to salary.
  • Modern office and facilities
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Company Pension Contribution

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Posted: October 27th, 2026