Quality Manager
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Job Location:
Worcestershire - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Title
Quality Manager
Location
Redditch
About Us
Gardner Denver is a leading provider of mission-critical flow control and compression equipment and associated aftermarket parts consumables and services which it sells across multiple attractive end-markets within the industrial energy and medical industries. Its broad and complete range of compressor vacuum and blower products and services along with its application expertise and over 160 years of engineering heritage allows Gardner Denver to provide differentiated product and service offerings for its customers specific uses.
Job Summary
The Quality Manager oversees and coordinates quality activities to ensure compliance resolve issues and drive continuous improvement. With a focus on managing customer complaints and warranty claims they collaborate with certifying bodies suppliers and internal teams for effective resolution quality enhancement and cost reduction. The dedicated team plays a vital role in providing support for these activities.
Responsibilities
- Quality Management Representative to certifying bodies and Customers.
- Ensuring compliance to IATF 16949 ISO9001 and PED 2014/68/EU and re-qualification and national and international standards and legislation.
- Ensure that the quality assurance measures prescribed within the company procedures are adhered throughout the company and drive a culture of continual improvement.
- Responsible for managing and developing the Quality Team mentoring and setting objectives in line with company strategy.
- Using Quality Tools for the Analysis of defects in materials and products and recommends corrective measures to maintain quality standards. Maintains and continually improves the quality of the product monitor & report quality KPIs.
- Drives corrective and preventative actions including process and product design improvements for procedural product or product deficiencies through the analysis of data.
- Responsible for implementing quality improvement programs to improve the product and processes by using and promoting lean thinking and processes to continuously improve.
- Ensuring Customer complaints & warranty issues are investigated closed and reported to the satisfaction of the Customer.
- Responsible for ensuring the Inspection of product to company and customer specifications.
- Planning and conducting Internal Audits of plant processes and working practices to ensure compliance and the resolution of non-conformances.
- Manage / Attend Management Quality Warranty and SQDIP meetings ensuring actions are relevant and completed.
Basic Qualifications
- Degree qualification or equivalent experience.
- 5 years experience working within an engineering environment within a similar role.
Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements
Fully site based with occasional travel.
Key Competencies
- Knowledge of ISO & IATF management systems
- Use of SAP Quality Management
- Experience of Problem-solving tools such as 8D 5Y and A3s
- Auditing experience (System product process)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
What we Offer
- 25 Days Holiday 8 Bank Holidays (Option to purchase 5 days after probation period)
- 7% Employer Pension Contribution
- Westfield Health Medial Cash Plan Cover
- Death in Service Benefit of 4 x salary
- Cycle scheme (After probation period)
- Electric Car Scheme (After probation period)
- 10% of salary in shares after 1 year of employment
- Costco Gold Company member allowing employees to join.
- Employee Assistance Program
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Policies
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- APQP
- Quality Assurance
- ISO 9001
- Lean Six Sigma
- PPAP
- Root cause Analysis
- ISO 13485
- Quality Systems
- Quality Control
- Quality Management
- As9100
- Manufacturing
About Company
Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, committed to helping make life better. We provide innovative and mission-critical industrial, energy, medical and specialty vehicle products and services across 40+ respected brands designed to excel in even the most complex a ... View more
