Quality Manager
- Full-time
Quality Manager
If you want to own quality strategy rather than just police it, and see your work end up in military vehicles, buses and construction plant worldwide, this is worth a look.
About the company
Pailton Engineering designs and manufactures steering components and systems, from drag link assemblies to complete steering columns, for military, commercial vehicle, and bus and coach manufacturers. Its parts have gone into vehicles for names including JCB and IVECO.
The business started in a small shed and has since designed over 10,000 different parts, with a number of staff who've been there 25 years or more. It holds IATF accreditation, reflecting the standard its automotive and defence customers expect.
The role
As Quality Manager, you'll take ownership of the quality management system across the site, reporting into senior site management. You'll be the first point of contact for customer and third-party audits, and the person managers turn to when a quality issue needs root-causing fast.
What you'll do
- Lead root-cause investigation into quality issues across production and own the fix
- Develop and maintain the site's quality management system, procedures and documentation
- Manage internal, third-party and customer audits from planning through to close-out
- Assess new suppliers fo...