Quality Lead - Hardware Engineering

ONYX Insight; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ONYX Insight is strengthening its Advanced Sensing hardware quality capabilities as part of its renewable energy portfolio. The Quality Lead will own QA processes, drive reliability, and scale the quality function across hardware products.

In this senior role, you will lead quality teams, manage supplier quality, perform root cause analyses, and ensure compliant testing and product release, with strong engagement at senior levels.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior quality role within hardware/electronic environments.
• Experience leading quality teams and driving accountability across functions.
• Strong track record in supplier quality management and performance improvement.
• Proven ability to lead root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Experience establishing testing, validation and product release processes.
• Solid understanding of ISO 9001 and regulatory/compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and ownership of quality assurance across hardware products.
• Develop and evolve the quality capability as the business scales.
• Oversee supplier quality across Tier 1 and 2 suppliers, including audits.
• Lead RCA, defect reduction and incident management.
• Ensure robust testing and validation preceding release or shipment.
• Maintain and improve quality standards across the lifecycle, aligned with CE, FCC, IEC.
• Report quality performance with metrics to senior stakeholders.
• Represent quality topics in cross-functional forums and drive improvements.
• Analyse quality processes to identify risks and drive improvements.
• Support audits and compliance with the Quality Management System.

Skills

Quality leadership

Hardware quality

Supplier quality

Root cause analysis

QA testing

ISO 9001

Tools

QMS tooling

Job description

The Role:

The continued success of our Advanced Sensing hardware product line has created the need to scale our quality capability alongside business growth. The Quality Lead - Hardware Engineering will play a key role in supporting this growth, ensuring quality processes are robust, scalable, and able to support increasing product volume and complexity within the renewable energy sector.

The role is responsible for the leadership and delivery of quality assurance across the hardware portfolio, owning the effectiveness of quality processes and ensuring products, systems and materials meet required standards and are delivered with consistency and reliability.

The role provides clear ownership, leadership and visibility of quality performance, acting as the primary point of accountability for quality outcomes and a key point of engagement for senior stakeholders on quality risks, issues and resolution. This position plays a critical role in supporting high-quality hardware solutions that enable the continued growth of renewable energy technologies worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, ownership and visibility of quality assurance across Advanced Sensing, ensuring products, systems and materials meet company and international standards
• Lead and develop the quality capability, including management of team members and evolution of the function as the business scales
• Own supplier quality across Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, including audit programmes, approval processes and performance management
• Take full ownership of quality incidents, leading root cause analysis (RCA), defect identification and implementation of corrective and preventative actions
• Ensure robust testing and validation processes are in place, with accountability for product approval prior to release or shipment
• Set, maintain and continuously improve quality standards across the product lifecycle, ensuring alignment with regulatory and certification requirements (e.g. CE, FCC, IEC)
• Provide clear visibility of quality performance through reporting, metrics and structured communication of risks, issues and remediation plans to senior stakeholders
• Act as the quality lead in cross-functional forums, confidently representing quality topics and driving alignment on resolution and improvement actions
• Analyse the effectiveness of quality processes, systems and controls, identifying risks and leading continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure alignment with the organisation's Quality Management System (QMS) and support audit and compliance activities
• Support the delivery of high-quality hardware products that contribute to the reliability and performance of critical renewable energy infrastructure

Experience & Qualifications:

• Proven experience in a senior quality role within hardware, electronics engineering or manufacturing environments, with clear ownership and leadership of quality outcomes
• Experience managing and developing teams, providing leadership, direction and visibility across quality functions
• Strong track record in supplier quality management, including audits, approvals and performance improvement
• Demonstrated experience leading root cause analysis, defect reduction and quality incident management
• Experience establishing and maintaining testing, validation and product approval processes
• Strong understanding of quality standards, regulatory requirements and quality management systems (e.g. ISO 9001, CE/FCC)
• Experience operating with visibility at senior stakeholder level, including communicating complex quality issues and driving resolution
• Strong analytical capability with experience assessing process and system effectiveness and driving continuous improvement
• Ability to operate with a high degree of ownership and leadership, influencing cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
• Some exposure to working at a global level is an advantage
• Experience supporting products used within the renewable energy, industrial technology or engineering sectors would be advantageous

About ONYX

ONYX Insight is a growing technology and engineering organisation in the renewable energy sector. Our vision is to build a more efficient future by becoming the world's most innovative provider of predictive technology solutions. Our advanced sensing, software and analytics combined with our engineering experience are deployed on wind turbines around the world to maximise production and make turbines more reliable for longer, optimising energy production and supporting the global transition to renewable energy.

ONYX Insight is part of the Macquarie Group. Macquarie is a global financial services group operating in 34 markets in asset management, leasing and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advisory services, capital raising and principal investment. The diversity of the Macquarie Group operations combined with a strong capital position and robust risk management framework has contributed to a 54 year-record of unbroken profitability.

For any further information, or to understand our products and services better, please feel free to look through our website: ONYX Insight Website

ONYX Insight are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.