Quality Manager: Lead Audits & Continuous Improvement

Hunter Selection Limited; Ebbw Vale; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days holiday + bank holidays

Sick Pay package

Death in service

Onsite parking

Excellent training and long term dev

Opportunities for progression

Job summary

This is a great opportunity to join the quality team of an established manufacturing business in Ebbw Vale. Hunter Selection are working with an expanding business looking for a Quality Manager.

The role involves auditing, certifications, managing a QMS, and driving quality improvements across the organisation. You will lead the quality function, drive continuous improvement, support supplier quality, and oversee APQP/PPAP activities while developing your team and ensuring compliance with

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining and improving a certified Quality Management System.
• Experience planning and conducting internal audits.
• Experience supporting certification-body and customer audits.
• Practical experience of structured problem solving, root-cause analysis and 8D.
• Working knowledge of automotive Core Tools, including APQP, PPAP and FMEA.
• Experience reviewing PPAP submissions,

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve the Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with ISO 9001, IATF 16949, customer requirements, and business objectives.
• Drive quality performance through analysis of audits, customer feedback, supplier performance, and risk assessments, identifying opportunities for corrective action and continual improvement.
• Manage and oversee all audit activities, including risk-based internal and layered process audits, ensuring process effectiveness, compliance, and support for certification requirements.
• Act as the primary quality representative for customers and product safety, overseeing APQP, PPAP, corrective actions, product conformity, and adherence to customer and regulatory requirements.
• Lead supplier quality and product governance activities, including supplier development, performance monitoring, specification approval, outsourced process control, and maintenance of robust quality controls and traceability systems.

Skills

Quality management

Internal audits

Root cause analysis

8D problem solving

APQP/PPAP/FMEA

Supplier quality

Regulatory compliance

Job description

This is a great opportunity to join the quality team of an established manufacturing business in Ebbw Vale. Hunter Selection are working with an expanding business looking for a Quality Manager.

The role involves auditing, certifications, managing a QMS, and driving quality improvements across the organisation. You will lead the quality function, drive continuous improvement, support supplier quality, and oversee APQP/PPAP activities while developing your team and ensuring compliance with