Location Quality Manager Ansty Park

PARKER HANNIFIN CORP; Coventry; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Healthcare

Pension scheme

Internal growth

Collaborative culture

Fortune 250 company

Job summary

Parker Aerospace, part of Parker Hannifin Corp, is seeking a Quality Manager based at the Ansty Park facility in Coventry to lead the site quality function and drive continuous improvement. You will oversee the Quality Management System, implement AS9100/AS9110, and develop the local quality team of about 25 engineers to meet customer and regulatory requirements.

Reporting to site leadership, you will champion quality performance, supplier and product quality, audits, corrective actions, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of aerospace quality standards, including AS9100/AS9110.
• Knowledge of FAA, EASA, CAAC Part 21 and Part 145 regulations.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Operational Quality Management.
• More than 3 years’ experience in a senior quality leadership role, such as Quality Manager.
• Trained auditor status, with AS9100 Lead Auditor approval.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent experience; Black Belt is an advantage.
• Knowledge of relevant quality tools and methods, including DFMEA, PFMEA, MSA, SPC, PPAP, APQP, 8D, and other aerospace or automotive core tools.
• Experience in project management and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the plant Quality function, ensuring effective processes, systems, and standards are in place.
• Establish, maintain, and optimise the Quality Management System to meet customer, regulatory, Corporate, Group, and Division requirements.
• Implement AS9100/AS9110 standards, prevention methods, problem-solving tools, and continuous improvement techniques.
• Communicate customer, regulatory, industry, and organisational requirements to ensure product quality, contract compliance, and customer satisfaction.
• Lead, develop, and support the local quality team to strengthen technical capability and performance.
• Coordinate internal, customer, and third-party quality system audits.
• Maintain corrective action processes to investigate, analyse, and resolve nonconformities and complaints.
• Monitor quality performance, customer satisfaction, Cost of Poor Quality, supplier quality, and product/service trends to identify improvement opportunities.
• Work with site leadership to ensure employees performing quality-related activities are trained, competent, and achieving required performance standards.
• Assess supplier capability and drive supplier quality improvements where needed.

Skills

Aerospace quality standards AS9100/AS9

Six Sigma Green Belt

Quality leadership

Project & change management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

DFMEA

PFMEA

MSA

SPC

PPAP

APQP

8D

Job description

Responsibilities

Parker Aerospace is a global leader in advanced motion and control technologies, supporting some of the world’s most important aircraft and aerospace programmes. Our teams design, manufacture, and support high-performance systems that help make flight safer, more efficient, and more reliable.

Joining Parker means becoming part of a purpose-driven, engineering-led business with strong values, world-class technology, and real opportunities to grow. You’ll work on meaningful aerospace challenges, collaborate with talented people, and contribute to innovations that keep the world moving.

Role Overview

The Quality Manager, based at the Ansty Park manufacturing facility in Coventry, is responsible for leading and managing the site Quality function. The role forms part of the site leadership team and is accountable for maintaining and improving the Quality Management System, implementing the Division’s Quality Plan, and supporting the Parker-Meggitt Quality philosophy and Parker Lean System at plant level. The position also leads a team of approximately 25 Quality Engineers and drives quality performance, compliance, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement across the site.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the plant Quality function, ensuring effective processes, systems, and standards are in place.
• Establish, maintain, and optimise the Quality Management System to meet customer, regulatory, Corporate, Group, and Division requirements.
• Implement AS9100/AS9110 standards, prevention methods, problem-solving tools, and continuous improvement techniques.
• Communicate customer, regulatory, industry, and organisational requirements to ensure product quality, contract compliance, and customer satisfaction.
• Lead, develop, and support the local quality team to strengthen technical capability and performance.
• Coordinate internal, customer, and third-party quality system audits.
• Maintain corrective action processes to investigate, analyse, and resolve nonconformities and complaints.
• Monitor quality performance, customer satisfaction, Cost of Poor Quality, supplier quality, and product/service trends to identify improvement opportunities.
• Work with site leadership to ensure employees performing quality-related activities are trained, competent, and achieving required performance standards.
• Assess supplier capability and drive supplier quality improvements where needed.

Education & Experience Needed

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge & experience of aerospace quality standards, including AS9100/AS9110.
• Knowledge of FAA, EASA, CAAC Part 21 and Part 145 regulations.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Operational Quality Management.
• More than 3 years’ experience in a senior quality leadership role, such as Quality Manager.
• Trained auditor status, with AS9100 Lead Auditor approval.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent experience; Black Belt is an advantage.
• Knowledge of relevant quality tools and methods, including DFMEA, PFMEA, MSA, SPC, PPAP, APQP, 8D, and other aerospace or automotive core tools.
• Experience in project management and change management.

What we offer

• Competitive salary, bonus and healthcare. A competitive pension scheme.
• Stable and growing employer present on the market for over 100 years.
• Career growth and opportunities: we hire from within!
• Collaborative and empowered work environment where team spirit is at the center of our success.
• Company values that encourage trust, respect, collaboration and professional growth.
• Chance to be part of a global, Fortune250 company