Aerospace Quality Inspection Manager — Lead & Optimize

Omega; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Long service awards

Company Cash plan Medical Insurance

Eye Care cover

Sick Pay Policy after 6 months

3 x Base salary Life assurance

Job summary

Omega, a Gloucestershire-based aerospace component manufacturer near Cheltenham, is seeking a Quality Inspection Manager to lead the inspection team and drive quality standards. You will own inspection methods, CMM programming, calibration and compliance with aerospace standards, collaborating with Production, Engineering and Planning.

This dayshift role offers stability, development opportunities and a focus on continuous improvement within a high-precision environment.

Qualifications

• Experience within aerospace, precision engineering or a similar manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience leading, supervising or managing an inspection or metrology team.
• Strong understanding of engineering drawings, tolerances and GD&T.
• Experience managing inspection workload and production priorities.
• Knowledge of calibration and measurement equipment control.
• Understanding of quality and inspection processes.
• Excellent organisational, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing and mentoring technical personnel.
• Lean / Continuous Improvement experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and develop the Inspection Team.
• Plan, allocate and prioritise daily inspection workload in line with production and customer requirements.
• Monitor workload, capacity, performance and lead times, identifying and escalating potential delivery risks.
• Develop a flexible, multi-skilled team through training, mentoring and cross-skilling.
• Conduct team meetings, one-to-ones and performance reviews.
• Promote a culture of accountability, teamwork, quality and continuous improvement.
• Own the development, standardisation and continual improvement of inspection methods.
• Ensure inspection methods are accurate, repeatable, efficient and appropriate to product requirements.
• Provide technical leadership for CMM inspection and programming activities.
• Support the introduction of new inspection technology, equipment and measurement techniques.
• Work with Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering to develop inspection strategies for new and existing products.
• Own the inspection equipment calibration process, ensuring equipment remains within calibration and is fit for purpose.
• Maintain effective control and traceability of measurement equipment and calibration records.
• Manage external calibration requirements and investigate out-of-calibration situations.
• Ensure inspection activities comply with company procedures, customer requirements and applicable aerospace standards.
• Maintain high standards of product quality, traceability and inspection records.
• Support non-conformance investigations, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Support internal, customer and regulatory audits.
• Ensure quality or measurement risks are identified and escalated appropriately.
• Own the competency and development of the Inspection Team.
• Maintain skills matrices and identify training and development requirements.
• Develop inspection capability through structured training, mentoring and succession planning.
• Drive improvements in inspection efficiency, lead times, processes and methods.
• Promote Lean, 5S and continuous improvement within the inspection function.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Lean / Continuous Improvement

Tools

CMM programming

Calibration equipment control

Job description

Omega, a Gloucestershire-based aerospace component manufacturer near Cheltenham, is seeking a Quality Inspection Manager to lead the inspection team and drive quality standards. You will own inspection methods, CMM programming, calibration and compliance with aerospace standards, collaborating with Production, Engineering and Planning.

This dayshift role offers stability, development opportunities and a focus on continuous improvement within a high-precision environment.