Group Quality Manager - Walsall - £35K to £45K plus car, 15% bonus and benefits (MBI-100797)

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Group Quality Manager
Walsall, West Midlands, England
£35K to £45K plus car, 15% bonus and benefits

Group Quality Assurance Manager

Location - Midlands

Salary - £35K to £45K plus car, 15% bonus and benefits

Mission

Reporting to the Group Technical Business Unit Director the Group Quality Manager is responsible for the overall development and management of the Group Quality Management System and UK Technical Service activities.

Activities
- Responsible for development implementation and management of the Group Business Management System
- Ensures the Group BMS system is continually assessed and developed to meet the regulatory and legal requirements relating to the Group activities in Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental Management.
- Group Board recommendations on Customer Satisfaction Performance, Process Audits, Internal Audits, Complaints, Training Plans, Credit Note Analysis, and H&S Statistics.
- Maintain Group Business Management System internal and process audit programmes, ensuring that all planned activities are completed to plan.
- Liaise with accreditation bodies to ensure all planned activities are carried out.
- Develop the Group Business Management System to meet the needs of the Group's Clients and other interested parties [e.g. creating bespoke process audit appendices].
- Manage the introduction of the Group BMS within all operational countries
- Responsible for the selection, recruitment and development of UK engineering team
- Maintain an ongoing Technical liaison with clients to develop and obtain increased technical services sales
- Responsible of the placement and required induction of the appropriate engineers to cover customer needs.
- Day-day management of the Engineering team at UK clients to ensure quality & technical needs are met.
- In conjunction with the Technical Business Unit Director develop the Group Technical processes.
- Develop and maintain the required reportage to support the above activities.

Person Profile

- Degree level engineering education with a recognised Quality Management Qualification [e.g. MCIQA]
- A minimum of eight (8) years of automotive OEM or tier-1 experience in the quality assurance field
- Registered ISO9001 and ideally ISO14001 Lead Auditor with proven track record of hands on management of Company Quality Management Systems
- A recognised track record on APQP tools, Audit and Run@Rate with experience of leading suppliers or customer teams to achieve successful product launches.
- Recognised track record of problem solving in fast moving manufacturing environment with the proven ability to lead and train teams on the required techniques.
- Good analytical ability based on sound statistical techniques - ideally Six Sigma Black Belt qualified.
- Experience of recruiting and managing technical personal
- Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills able to communicate to all internal and customer levels from Board room to shop floor
- Significant travelling in the UK and Europe requiring time to be spend time away from home occasionally at short notice as required to support the business needs.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.