Operational Quality Manager

Date Posted:

2024-01-25

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Goodrich Actuation Systems Limited, Stafford Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 7EH

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary
• Car/Car allowance
• Company performance bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - up to 10% employer contribution
• Private medical insurance
• Comprehensive health cash plan
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Flexible benefits programme (buy & sell holiday allowance, discounted gym memberships, Maternity/ adoption leave- up to 52 weeks, first 26 weeks at full pay, subsequent 26 at 50% (basic pay)
• Structured training & opportunities to progress
• Opportunity to join ERGs (employee resource groups), participate in community projects & much more!

What does the role look like?

We are currently seeking a Quality Manager to join our team in our Highlift value stream. In this pivotal role, you will take charge of leading a small yet dedicated Quality team, playing a crucial role in ensuring operational excellence across the value stream.

The focus of this role is to drive Continuous Improvement activities throughout the entire value stream, utilising your expertise to enhance product and service quality.

The ideal candidate will possess a operationally focused background, with proven leadership skills, a keen eye for detail, and a passion for driving quality standards to new heights. If you are a proactive and results-driven individual with a commitment to excellence, we invite you to apply and be a key player in our commitment to delivering high-quality products and services.

What will your day-to-day responsibilities look like?

What will you bring to the role?

• Ensuring Customer satisfaction (Quality) to the highest extent by developing relationships and demonstrating world class quality performance.
• Ensure Compliance to all relevant regulatory, customer and internal requirements.
• Ensuring adherence to the Quality Management System (QMS)
• Facilitating and adhering to Audits; both internal and external
• Ensuring that VS quality strategy and objectives meet the expectations of the VS
• Measuring Quality performance, defining targets and setting objectives to improve quality that feed into VS objectives; reduced cost of Poor Quality, reduction of escapes and improvement of First Pass Yield (FPY)
• Ensuring that the Quality Clinic performance is world class and support investigations/projects in a timely manner.
• Quality Investigations
• Quality Team Management / Development & Skills
• Training VS on quality basics
• Interfacing with the central supplier quality function to ensure supplier quality is measured and improved.
• Compliance to Collins Ethics, Export control, and Environmental Health and Safety in the Quality team.
• Using Continuous Improvement (CORE) tools to improve key quality performance metrics.
• Advanced Programme Quality Planning (APQP) on new programmes

What will you bring to the role?

Essential skills:

• Proven background in coaching & mentoring high performing teams
• Excellent Quality/Lean toolkit: VSM, Kaizen, 8D, 5whys etc
• Data driven approach to making decisions

Desirable skills:

• Aerospace or low volume high complexity experience
• Experience and understanding of quality Management Systems
• Good understanding of logical problem-solving methodology such as RCCA process
• Excellent ability to plan and execute projects
• Ability to organise and prioritise personal workload
• A good standard of computer literacy using industry wide software packages
• Understanding of the general engineering process
• Technical Understanding
• Confidence in presenting to senior levels within the organisation
• Experience to dealing with customers and suppliers (Internal & external)
• Safety first approach
• Calm under pressure
• Data Driven
• Drive for results

About us:

At Collins Aerospace, we’re working side by side with our customers & partners to dream, design & deliver solutions that redefine the future of our industry. We are part of Raytheon Technologies & provide technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industry to connect and protect people around the world. We are inventors, we are manufacturers, we work in space exploration, commercial air travel, defence & rescue applications.

Are you looking to join a dynamic global team that works across the entire Aerospace industry? If yes, get onboard the Collins Aerospace Team & play a part in expanding the opportunities to develop new products & challenge the state of art technology.

We believe Diversity drives innovation; equity eliminates obstacles, inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where everyone can belong & succeed, contributing to a better society.

We are committed to ensuring the recruitment process is barrier-free & inclusive as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have disability or long term condition to remove barriers that may be experienced in the recruitment process.

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day!

Please note that potential candidates will be subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and background checks and that project access restrictions may apply to some nationalities.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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