Quality Manager

ABB Schweiz AG; Morley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Quality Manager to lead the quality strategy within a dynamic team. This role involves driving quality systems and culture to exceed customer expectations while ensuring sustainable operations. You will coordinate efforts across functions to achieve world-class performance and compliance with certification requirements. If you have a strong engineering background and are passionate about quality management in manufacturing, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Career Development Opportunities

Impactful Work in Technology

Team Management and Growth

Qualifications

• Strong IOT/electronic technical background is preferred.
• Proven experience in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodology.

Responsibilities

• Lead the quality strategy and ensure customer expectations are met.
• Establish a closed-loop quality cycle from product development to customer feedback.

Skills

Customer Focus

Communication Skills

Lean Manufacturing

Six Sigma

Leadership Skills

Root Cause Analysis

Education

Engineering Qualification

Lead Auditor Certification (ISO9001)

Tools

Quality Management System (QMS)

ISO9001

Job description

Quality Manager

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This is a position with grade

13

This position reports to

Manufacturing Unit Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to deploy and lead the quality strategy for a local organisational unit, including quality culture, systems, tools, and competent teams, with the aim to achieve and exceed customer expectations while ensuring sustainable operations. Each day, you will drive the local quality system through the right mix of prevention, continuous improvement, robust root cause analysis, quick response, and sustainable solutions to problems. You will also showcase your expertise by coordinating the efforts of all necessary local functions that impact the quality results to reach the targets for the organisational unit and aim for world-class performance and ensuring that the necessary certification requirements are met throughout the organisation. The work model for the role is: #onsite. This role is contributing to the UK, Electrification Emergency Lighting division. Main stakeholders are Local Sales Organisation, R+D, External Customers and Operations.

You will be mainly accountable for:

1. Influencing and consulting with management within the local ABB unit to innovatively shape the design and development of your functional area to improve the organisation’s overall performance.
2. Ensuring appropriate internal and external communication relevant to quality management system.
3. Implementing short, medium- and long-term strategy, activities, and planning to develop the quality management system, based on identified risks and opportunities, in collaboration and agreement with the local management team.
4. Establishing a closed-loop quality cycle from product development to customer experience feedback to ensure customer requirements and expectations are met.

Qualifications for the role

• Engineering qualification is a significant value-add with a strong IOT/electronic technical background.
• Knowledge of the ISO9001 standard with a lead auditor certification.
• Clear QMS management experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong customer focus values with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven experience in Lean Manufacturing, including Six Sigma methodology (Black Belt level is a significant plus).
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing a team.
• A collaborative team player who is open-minded and self-motivated.

What's in it for you?

• Bring your knowledge and expertise, make the difference in technology.
• Help customers in driving efficiency and sustainability, making a strong impact.
• Manage a team of motivated individuals, make them grow and keep growing with them.

More about us

We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory