Quality Manager

Tarmac Trading Limited; Dunbar; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Are you an experienced and dynamic Quality Manager looking for your next position?

We are currently looking for a Quality Manager at our Dunbar plant in East Lothian to play a key role within the cement team to be responsible for the management and continuous improvement of the Quality function. You will be able to lead development and performance within the Quality team whilst working closely with the Plant Management Team, driving to achieve performance and process improvements, meeting plant & customer objectives.

Main Responsibilities

As the successful Quality Manager, your day-to-day duties and responsibilities will include (not exhaustive):

• Fostering safety awareness amongst employees, striving to achieve a zero-harm culture, leading by example and by setting high standards towards creating a sustainable Health & Safety culture coupled with Environmental excellence.
• Complying with the Company environmental standards in the relevant fields of activity.
• Ensuring the quality of products and services are in line with objectives, quality contracts and standards, and any process improvement work is relevant and of good quality.
• Leading daily reviews of Quality KPI’s & Product conformity, setting in place key actions for any deviations.
• Operating a Quality Management System, ensuring certification of products, operational testing, monitoring and reporting as well as maintaining Quality compliance.
• Ensuring sampling, measuring and analysis procedures (including Tarmac quality technical standards) are in place, adequate and respected.
• Providing prompt production of Dispatch Quality Data as required by the sales function and customers.
• Promoting quality of work and motivating personnel, developing skills to keep abreast of technical developments.
• Evaluating the suitability of new plant together with safe procedures for their use that ensure conformity to legislation and Tarmac Management System.
• Investigating product quality issues, putting in place corrective actions with a corresponding action plan.
• Liaising with the technical sales force and NCTM in case of quality claims.
• Managing chemistry/quality/environment projects to carry out improvements and standardization and coordinating certification procedures.
• Ensuring that all required personnel are fully trained and competent in the Quality management system and the ISO Quality Management system.
• Providing line manager support including, recruitment, retention, development opportunities and appraisals for your team.

Qualifications

The ideal Quality Manager will possess the following:

• Significant experience in a technical/optimisation/quality management role with experience of laboratory testing procedures.
• Extensive knowledge of cement industry processes from raw mix design, clinker production (burning) to finished products grinding.
• In-depth knowledge of physico-chemical characteristics of raw materials, in process and finished.
• Fully conversant with laboratory sample and recording systems in a cement/concrete or related-product laboratory.
• Experience of managing change and implementing new processes and procedures.
• A sound knowledge of standards and QA certification procedures.
• Fully conversant with ISO9001 quality management system, BS EN197.
• In-depth working knowledge of cement products is essential.
• Analytical thinking, able to analyse data and compile logical, structured reports.
• Good time-management skills; with ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Coaching and Influencing skills are paramount in this role.

Suitable candidates for the Quality Manager role will hold a Chemistry/Materials Science related degree (or equivalent) whilst IOSH and Management or leadership certification would be desirable.

At Tarmac, ‘who you are’ matters. We want to get to know you. If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer. Tarmac is the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business. Our innovative products and solutions not only deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the UK economy today but also help to create a more sustainable built environment for the country’s long-term future.

Here at Tarmac, we are working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it’s important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.