Quality Manager - Bedfordshire

Quality Manager

up to £65k

Bedfordshire

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Are you looking for a new challenge where you will be pivotal to the development of QMS systems, Quality Strategy and overall profitability of the business? Are you someone passionate about Quality Engineering and enjoy working closely with customers to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction?

Then keep reading!

MDE are looking for a Quality Manager to join a stable and establish manufacturing business making high volume household products. You will be the driving force behind the the Quality culture within the organisation whilst managing non conformance and quality issues experienced by the customer. You will need to have a strong personality who can win hearts and minds and also persistant in promoting best in class practices on a daily basis.

Main Objective of the Role

• To provide a clear quality policy, set of procedures, work instructions and daily quality controls in order to monitor and support manufacturing. Responsibility for accreditation for ISO9001, BRC IOP or chosen standard and update as and when required.
• The job holder is required to deputise in the absence of the Health and Safety Manager.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Day to day management of Quality personnel, encompassing management of individuals workloads, staff development, performance reviews, timekeeping, disciplinaries etc in line with company policies.
• Provide a set of measures for presentation to the senior management team on a monthly basis covering customer complaints, quarantined product, preventative and corrective action initiatives
• Reporting on ISO and BSI audit status as and when applicable.
• Approval of documentation to support accreditation for ISO9000 or chosen standard
• Provide presentations as and when required to customers and other visitors using appropriate quality tools and analysis.
• Conducting supplier audits in order to improve quality of supply and ensure conformance of product to specification.
• Production support, recommending opportunities and leading the drive for continuous quality improvement.
• Lead the team to achieve accreditation to company quality standard and maintain current standards.
• Day to day monitoring of production output ensuring compliance to product specification.
• Dealing with customer complaints in a timely manner providing confidence through analysis of the issue and recommendation of preventative and corrective actions.
• Recommending equipment required for measurement and test through to seeking relevant approvals for purchase, installation and training where required.
• Member of Management team providing inputs into Lindal UK strategy for business growth.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level although strong experience supported by relevant qualifications are seen as equivalent.
• Recognised quality qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years in a similar role in Quality Management.
• Use of quality tools for capability studies CPK etc, 8D for root cause analysis or other appropriate analytical tools SPC etc.
• Experience of manufacturing / production environment.

Please note ALL applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK