Quality Manager

The Quality Manager is responsible for overseeing and maintaining the quality management system within the manufacturing plant. This includes ensuring that products are manufactured to meet internal and external quality standards, conducting audits and inspections, managing quality control processes, and leading initiatives to improve manufacturing processes and product quality.

Responsibilities:

- devise and establish a company's quality procedures, standards and specifications

- review customer requirements and ensure they are met

- work with purchasing staff to establish quality requirements from external suppliers

- set standards for quality as well as health and safety

- make sure that manufacturing or production processes meet international and national standards

- look at ways to reduce waste and increase efficiency

- define quality procedures in conjunction with Quality Engineers

- set up and maintain quality controls and documentation procedures

- monitor company's quality performance by gathering relevant data and produce statistical reports

- review existing policies and make suggestions for changes and improvements and how to implement them

- measure team's performance and identify any areas of weakness, recommending and implementing improvements

- assess the effectiveness of changes made

- use relevant quality tools and make sure his/her managers, engineers and other staff understand how to improve the business

- make sure the company is working as effectively as possible to keep up with competitors

- train and manage a team of quality assurance Engineers & quality control technicians

Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role:

• Degree or diploma in quality management, mechanical engineering/precision engineering or equivalent.
• Knowledge and experience in the field of plastic injection manufacturing is preferred.
• Ability to perform internal and external auditing in relation to ISO system requirements.
• Knowledge in Supplier Management
• Knowledge of quality Management Standards such as ISO 9001, 14001, 13485 and ISO 22301.
• Knowledge in PFMEA, Control Plans and GR&R
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of programs.
• Good verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong leadership to lead, guide and inspire the project team to produce quality work and stay committed to all deliverables.
• Ability to analyse, solve problems and decision making.
• Strong organisational skills with a can-do attitude to always improve and initiate new ways of working to achieve results.