Quality Manager - Aerospace

Quality Manager - Aerospace, Industry and Metals - Permanent - Attractive - Berkshire

A Quality Manageris required to join a leading Aerospace, Industry and Metals company that specialises in stock management to provide materials of the highest quality to various industry sectors including Aerospace. The Quality Manager will work with the Quality Management System which forms an essential role. It both defines the Quality Expectations and provides the tools for quantitative analysis of performance against these goals. The Quality Manager will be involved with Management reviews which are held on a regular basis to identify quality improvements that can be made. The successful Quality Manager will be joining a family run business and will report to the Regional Director.

Quality Manager will be responsible for the following:

• Upgrading current quality system to be fully compliant with Aerospace standards.
• Instigate audits and approvals by relevant third party within agreed time frames.
• Day to day approval maintenance, implementation and internal audits.
• Being the 1st line support for customer audit, query, investigation and inspection.
• Adhere to the regulatory compliance to meet the quality standards.
• Liaison with Senior Management on quality issues and all related compliance requirements.
• Adapt Quality Management System for the business, to become Aerospace compliant.
• Develop inspection methods to analyse product quality.
• Carefully maintain complaint and nonconformance (8D, AS9100/9120).
• Manage QA documentation to final release under AS standards.
• Collaborate and identify branch training needs and take action to ensure compliance.
• Respond to major customer complaints putting in containment actions.
• Report against quality metrics monthly - errors, complaints, credits and NPS score.
• Update quality documentation and communicate to carry forward lessons learned.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems.
• Pursue continuing education on new solutions, technologies, and skills.
• Report on achievement of targets and identify any actions required to senior management.
• Conduct risk assessments of processes and tasks in the department.

The Quality Manager should have the following Qualifications Skills/Experience:

• Experience with AS9120/AS9100 internal/external audit and QA experience.
• Degree or HND, BTEC Professional Level 5 Award or equivalent NVQ Level 5.
• Experience in a high-volume distribution environment and FAIR/8-D/FEMA skills.
• Experience of dealing directly with end users and suppliers.
• Teamwork ethics and a good attention to detail.
• ? Time management, able to prioritise and organise workloads effectively.
• Problem-solving mindset and having a can-do, positive approach.
• Able to multitask, having an awareness of time sensitive tasks.
• Good written and verbal communication and knowledge of quality standards.
• Relevant industrial operations and quality engineering experience.
• Very good understanding of manufacturing processes to support the business.
• Previous experience leading manufacturing audits and quality programs.
• Understanding of how quality practices can be applied to give a commercial advantage.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and use of statistical models to ensure the capability.
• Experience of dealing with raw materials, particularly aerospace specification metals.
• Good IT skills and experience with an ERP system would be useful.

**Security Clearance (SC) may be required due to the Defence and Security products involved**

Demand for this role will undoubtedly be high and interviews will be arranged very soon. If you have experience of Quality Management and you want to be considered, please apply today. If you have any questions about the Quality Managerrole, please contact Peter Heap at Jonathan Lee Recruitment on or send suitable CV's to peter.heap@jonlee.co.u

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