QA Manager
Location: Cambridgeshire
Salary: Up to 65000 (depending on experience)
Job Type: Fulltime Permanent
Job Overview
Our client is an established company seeking a highly experienced QA Manager to lead and maintain their Quality Assurance systems and ensure compliance with industry regulations and customer expectations. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining highquality standards across the organisation and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Main Purpose of the Job
To deliver quality products and services that exceed the standards expected by customers and stakeholders. Ensure that the company works to the highest possible quality standard in everything it does and implement standard processes & procedures for consistent highquality results across all company functions.
Key Responsibilities and Main Tasks
- Make suggestions and follow through with improvements to deliver reliable and quality products and services.
- Collect compile and analyse data continuously and visualize trends to identify areas for reliability and quality improvement; initiating and facilitating actions to implement improvements effectively using problemsolving techniques 8D 5Why etc..
- Responsibility for the maintenance of QMS ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements and standards adopted by the company.
- Formulate develop and promote policies processes procedures objectives and measures for the continued operation of QMS (e.g. Quality & Environment).
- Assist relevant departments in writing standardised work instructions for company processes and procedures.
- Organise and conduct internal and external audits to ensure adherence to regulations and standards.
- Collate and deliver performance data as part of the QMS review to senior management.
- Identify training needs and implement companywide compliance training.
- Train and coach staff regarding quality and environment functions.
- Establish quality contracts with customers and suppliers.
- Act as liaison host and company representative for external auditing bodies related to Quality & Environment functions.
- Work with supply chain to assess new suppliers and monitor existing suppliers for better quality production materials.
- Contribute to and undertake Quality Gate Reviews for the introduction of any new product.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to perform reliability testing on new products.
- Develop inspection standards for production materials and acceptance of certificates of conformity.
- Manage customer complaints RMAs and corrective/preventative actions for field issues.
- Prevent recurrence of major quality problems.
- Carry out additional tasks
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience in quality assurance within an electronics manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of quality improvement problemsolving and analysis techniques
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for internal and external engagement.
- Strong interpersonal skills for collaboration with all company areas and external bodies.
- Proficiency in spreadsheets and statistical analysis including data collection and management.
- Excellent attention to detail and problemsolving skills.
- Strong planning organisation and critical/logical thinking abilities.
- Teamwork collaboration and facilitation skills to resolve issues and lead continuous quality improvement.
- Knowledge of electronic component reliability and failure mechanisms is highly desirable
If you are interested in the role of Quality Assurance Manager and feel that you have the relevant experience please contact your Recruitment Partner Lisa Logan at Unicorn Resourcing onor email
If this job isnt exactly right for you but youre looking for something new please contact us for a confidential career discussion.
Unicorn Resourcing Limitedis acting as an Employment Agency in regard to this Permanentopportunity.
Required Experience:
Manager