Quality Leader

Parker Hannifin; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early finish on fridays

Competitive pay package

Annual bonus scheme

Buy and Sell holidays

Career progression opportunities

Income protection

Employee Perkz - Offering ouremployees

Job summary

Parker Hannifin is seeking a Quality Lead to direct the Quality team across materials inspection, in-process assemblies and finished products to ensure quality standards. You will compile data and create trend charts for management information on product quality.

You will own proactive quality measures, lead continuous improvement, and coordinate audits with regulatory and customer requirements. This role is based in Stevenage, UK, with strong cross-functional collaboration and career

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality teams and initiatives in engineering/manufacturing.
• Proven ability to analyse data and drive improvements.
• Experience with audits and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Owns quality measures and drives analysis, problem solving and continuous improvement.
• Leads Zero Defects initiative across departments.
• Maintains quality systems in line with regulations and customer requirements.
• Prepares defect data and action plans for QA management reviews.
• Leads internal and external audits and manages audit plans.
• Coordinates responses to audit findings and closes issues timely.
• Supports APQP activities and cross-functional gate reviews.

Skills

Quality leadership

Root cause analysis

Statistical analysis

APQP

Regulatory compliance

Audit management

Problem solving

Tools

Minitab

Quality Management System

Job description

Position Summary

The Quality Lead directs work activities for the Quality team, in the inspection of materials, in-process assemblies, and finished products to assure quality standards are met. Compiles data and prepares trend charts for management information regarding product quality.

Responsibilities

Are you ready to shape a brighter future?

At Parker, we play a pivotal role in applications that change our world. We are in almost everything that moves. With our wide range of technologies, including in the clean tech space, we help our customers solve their most complex engineering challenges.

We believe that the future belongs to those with vision. That’s why we’re seeking team players who share our purpose of enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Is that you? Working at Parker means belonging to a passionate, dynamic and innovative team, empowered to make a difference.

Your Responsibilities

• Proactive ownership of the business’ Quality measures and adherence; leading the analysis, problem solving and continuous improvement of all aspects related to product and process quality assurance.
• Leads the business’ Zero Defects initiative; actively promoting and progressing the improvement efforts across the organisation’s departments.
• Assures product quality through maintenance of a quality system in accordance with the quality regulations and customer requirements.
• Compiles data and action plans on defects and Cost of Poor Quality for QA department use, for management review and for guiding the actions that the Quality Lead will own and champion for the business.
• Fronts regulatory and customer audits and manages the internal audit plan to ensure compliance with quality regulations and customer requirements.
• Coordinates the response to audit findings to ensure timely closure.
• Contribute to development programmes through active participation at Gate reviews and coordination of APQP activities.
• Directs work activities for the Quality team members in the quality assurance, problem solving, inspection of materials, in-process assemblies, and finished products to assure quality standards are met.
• Monitors engineering specifications to insure inspector’s ability to verify requirements and to check for conflicting or missing requirements.
• Fosters the professional growth and development of the Quality team through personal example and appropriate training.
• Promotes team engagement among Production, Quality Assurance and Engineering through positive feedback and supporting coaching behaviours relative to process & product quality and mutually-generated corrective actions.
• Provides QA product recommendations within the limits of specifications, manuals and company policy.
• Oversees the maintenance of timely equipment calibration by the Quality team
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Ideally, you will also be

• Adept at solving complex problems in a cross-functional environment in a time-demanding environment.
• Able to plan and direct efforts to meet Quality Assurance targets.
• Applies processes, procedures and data-driven insights to resolve complex tasks.
• Experience working with a variety of technical and engineering data e.g. drawings, charts, diagrams, and sketches.
• Understanding of metrology principles and able to oversee measurements and use of test equipment.

What We Offer

• Early finish on fridays
• Competitive pay package
• Annual bonus scheme
• Buy and Sell holidays
• Career progression opportunities
• Income protection
• Employee Perkz - Offering our employees discounts

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on grounds of age, race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation or disability in relation to recruitment and employment.