Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager/Head of Quality – Manufacturing
Location: Dorking, Surrey, UK
Salary: Depending on experience
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
The Company:
Carville is a well-established manufacturer and renowned experts in precision machining, bonding and finishing engineering grade plastics, and specialists in transparent plastics such as Acrylic. They supply global, blue-chip customers in industries including life sciences, medical devices and industrial applications with solutions including fluidic manifolds and optical components. Carville have a strong reputation for high quality, precision parts.
The Role:
You will be leading the QA function and team of 5 people, responsible for the Quality Assurance and Quality Management Systems to ISO9001. You will be an active part of the senior management team, helping to set direction, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and tackle shop floor process issues. You will lead the customer liaison with the support of your quality engineering team to address concerns, initiate 8Ds and corrective actions.
It is a hands on role, working closely with your Quality Inspection team to help guide them and make final judgement calls.With support of the production team, you will be responsible for driving quality initiatives onto the shop floor to ensure continuous improvements. You will manage and mentor the quality team to optimise inspection regimes, support training, efficient use of the equipment and adherence to the processes. You will lead external and internal audits and follow through on the successful implementation of findings and actions.
The Candidate:
The position is suitable for someone with a strong background in manufacturing quality with management experience. The person will be a key representative of the company, so needs to have strong, customer focused, interpersonal skills.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Technical/Engineering education, minimum Level 4 Qualification
- ISO 9001 QMS management experience
- Root cause analysis
- Corrective Action/Preventative Action
- SPC & Capability studies, FAIR or PPAP
- Proven track record in a quality management role in manufacturing
- Inspection experience
- Leadership and decision making qualities
- Man management and team leading experience
- Customer focused approach
- High attention to detail
- Proficient Microsoft Office software skills (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Hands on approach
- Positive, problem solving attitude.
Nice to have Experience:
- CMM programming
- Lean manufacturing
- Direct CNC turning or milling
- ISO13485
- Working with plastics
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