Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Location: West Midlands
Salary: £50-£60k DOE
Job Type: Permanent | Full-Time

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Quality Manager to join our client, part of an internationally recognised group specialising in high-performance materials.

This is a key leadership position within the business, responsible for driving quality standards across manufacturing operations, developing robust systems and processes, and ensuring products consistently meet demanding customer, regulatory and industry requirements.

They are looking for a hands-on Quality Manager who combines strong technical knowledge with the leadership skills required to develop people, improve processes and embed a genuine culture of quality throughout the organisation.

The Role

Reporting into the senior leadership team, you will take overall responsibility for the site's Quality function, providing leadership across quality assurance, quality control and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Lead and develop the Quality function, ensuring consistently high standards across all areas of the business.
• Maintain, develop and continuously improve the company's Quality Management System.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with AS9100, AS9120, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, alongside relevant customer, regulatory and industry requirements.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the requirements, controls and audit expectations associated with these standards.
• Lead internal, external, customer and certification audits, ensuring all findings and corrective actions are closed out effectively.
• Manage customer complaints, non-conformances and root-cause investigations.
• Drive corrective and preventative action using structured problem-solving techniques.
• Work closely with Production, Engineering, Operations, Sales and Supply Chain teams to resolve quality issues and improve manufacturing performance.
• Develop supplier quality standards and support supplier audits and improvement activity.
• Monitor and report quality KPIs, identifying trends and implementing improvement programmes.
• Reduce scrap, rework and the overall cost of poor quality.
• Ensure inspection, testing, calibration and documentation processes are robust and effective.
• Support new product introduction and customer-specific quality requirements.
• Develop, coach and mentor the Quality team while promoting quality ownership throughout the wider business.
• Champion continuous improvement and a right-first-time culture.

About You

We are looking for an experienced Quality professional with a strong manufacturing background and the credibility to operate effectively at both shop-floor and senior-management level.

Ideally, you will have:

• Proven experience as a Quality Manager, Quality Lead, Senior Quality Engineer or Quality Assurance Manager within a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Strong working knowledge of AS9100 and AS9120, ideally within aerospace, defence, metals or another highly regulated sector.
• Good knowledge of ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems and ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems.
• Experience maintaining certification and supporting surveillance, recertification and customer audits.
• Strong knowledge of Quality Management Systems, audit processes and compliance requirements.
• Experience dealing directly with customers, certification bodies and external auditors.
• A strong understanding of root-cause analysis, corrective action and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Experience managing non-conformance, supplier quality and customer complaints.
• Good knowledge of manufacturing processes, inspection techniques and engineering documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to lead, influence and develop people across different levels of an organisation.
• A practical, commercially aware approach to quality, balancing compliance, customer expectations and operational performance.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a specialist engineering and manufacturing organisation with an international reputation for technically demanding products and high-performance materials.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make a genuine impact on the business, working closely with senior leadership to strengthen quality systems, improve operational performance and support the continued development and growth of the UK operation.

If you are an experienced Quality Manager with strong knowledge of AS9100, AS9120, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, and you are looking for a senior, hands-on position where you can influence both strategy and day-to-day manufacturing performance, we would be very interested in hearing from you.

Apply today for a confidential discussion.

Pay: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person