Product Assurance Manager

Product Assurance Manager

Location: Stevenage

Salary: £50,000 to £65,000

Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to 21%, Strong pension,25 days annual leave, enhanced parental leave.

We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, that has an exciting opportunity for a Product Assurance Manager.

Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.

The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.

Product Assurance Manager role

• Handling the small UK national Product Assurance team to ensure the required level of Quality Assurance support to programmes and their Customers.
• Ensure objectives are defined and communicated to your team, and that reporting lines are understood and agreed
• Handle assigned budgets and where applicable ensure the accountabilities are clear.
• Define both the Product Assurance and Company Business procedures to be deployed within the project and ensure they are tailored accordingly to meet the project’s needs. Present relevant Quality issues to your programme’s internal customers
• You will find pragmatic solutions for customers, whilst maintaining robust quality integrity
• Working for Head of Product Assurance Programme, to ensure that the team has the skills and capabilities needed to provide Quality Assurance to the Programmes Directorate
• Consolidate and mitigate functional and project risks and issues and provide feedback to internal Customers
• Being actively involved in ISO9000 and AS9100 assessments and internal quality audit activities

Product Assurance Manager skills and qualifications required:

• You are an experienced Quality Assurance / Engineering professional with a good understanding of overall systems and development and Production practices
• You have experience in handling a skilled and coordinated team
• Candidates do not need to have a Defence background. We welcome applicants from the Automotive, Aviation, and Manufacturing sectors
• You remain calm under pressure and cope well with unexpected changes
• Practitioner of current QA problem-solving methods (8D, Six Sigma, DMAIC, etc.)
• Continuous improvement awareness and ability to use own initiative to deliver improvements
• Ability to provide leadership and give experienced advice to others

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to secure a Product Assurance Manager role where you will be able to add value and make a real difference to the success of the business. You will be rewarded with opportunities for growth and development as well as a strong remuneration package.

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