Aerospace Quality Manager — AS9100/ISO 9001

Tekever; Swindon; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension contribution match up to 10%

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Private dental care

Employee assistance programme

Hybrid working model

Job summary

TEKEVER Swindon seeks a hands-on Quality Manager to lead day-to-day quality management and assurance in the Swindon manufacturing operation, establishing robust, clearly defined and controlled processes that meet AS9100 requirements and ensure safe, repeatable delivery of conforming product.

You will work closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Supply Chain and the UK QSHE team to translate requirements into effective shop-floor controls, FAIRs, nonconformance handling and sustained

Qualifications

• Experience in Aerospace/Defence manufacturing environments.
• AS9100 and ISO 9001 knowledge and applying requirements in production.
• Experience preparing, reviewing or approving FAIRs and applying AS9102 requirements.
• Ability to define and deploy manufacturing processes with controls, measures and interfaces.
• Proven ability to lead nonconformance, root-cause and corrective action through to closure.
• Experience leading Kaizen, Lean or structured continual-improvement activity in manufacturing."
• Knowledge of production quality controls such as inspection planning, traceability, configuration control, calibration, preservation and release.
• Strong communicator who can work across production, engineering, supply chain and leadership teams.
• Balance shop-floor priorities with longer-term system development and certification readiness activity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and improvement of the Quality Management System in Swindon, aligned with AS9100 and ISO 9001.
• Define, map and improve manufacturing and quality processes with clear ownership and controls.
• Plan, coordinate and approve First Article Inspection activity and FAIRs per AS9102 and customer requirements.
• Embed quality planning into new product introduction and production readiness.
• Establish inspection, verification, acceptance and release controls with traceability.
• Lead nonconforming materials control, containment and disposition.
• Drive corrective action using root-cause methods and verify effectiveness.
• Lead Kaizen and continual-improvement to reduce defects and waste.
• Plan and conduct QMS audits and support customer and regulatory audits.
• Support monitoring resources, traceability and change control with proper documentation.
• Collaborate with Supplier Quality and Supply Chain to resolve nonconformities and maintain production continuity.

Skills

Quality Management

AS9100

ISO 9001

FAIRs

Root Cause

Kaizen

Audit Planning

Cross-functional Communication

Job description

TEKEVER Swindon seeks a hands-on Quality Manager to lead day-to-day quality management and assurance in the Swindon manufacturing operation, establishing robust, clearly defined and controlled processes that meet AS9100 requirements and ensure safe, repeatable delivery of conforming product.

You will work closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Supply Chain and the UK QSHE team to translate requirements into effective shop-floor controls, FAIRs, nonconformance handling and sustained