Senior Product Quality & Process Excellence Lead

Porvair Filtration Group; Park Gate; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Porvair Filtration Group is seeking a Lead Product Quality and Quality Engineering professional to oversee QE across the complete product lifecycle—from supplier qualification and NPI through serial manufacture, to customer experience. The role focuses on preventing defects, improving process capability, and reducing cost of poor quality with a strong emphasis on RCCA, PFMEA, and APQP.

You will drive quality performance, coordinate with Quality Manager and wider teams, manage supplier quality,

Qualifications

• Engineering or Quality qualification at HNC/HND level or equivalent
• Trained, working knowledge of AS9100
• Good general education, including strong written and verbal communication skills
• Degree in Engineering or Quality (Desirable)
• AS9100 Internal/Lead Auditor (Desirable)
• Part 21G, AS9102 FAIR and AS9145 APQP experience (Desirable)
• 4-6 years’ Quality Engineering experience in aerospace or similar regulated manufacturing environment
• 2-3 years’ Leadership of QE and demonstrable product Quality improvement
• Relevant experience leading quality team in a high performing regulated environment
• Strong product conformity, nonconformance and MRB management
• Proficient engineering drawing interpretation capability
• Product Quality Engineering including RCCA, PFMEA, control plans, MSA, SPC and process capability
• Data analysis by customer, product family, part number, process and defect mode
• Cross-functional leadership with Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, Inspection and FAIR
• Experience coordinating, delivering or supporting quality subject matter training
• MS Office – 365, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

Responsibilities

• Drive quality performance improvement across the product lifecycle from supplier and NPI through manufacture, delivery and customer experience
• Analyse and report performance by customer, product family, part number, process and defect mode to identify and remove dominant product risks
• Collaborate with Quality Manager and wider business to reduce Cost of Poor Quality through targeted reduction of inputs and strong education of wider team
• Drive QE excellence and defect prevention through RCCA, FMEA/control plans, MSA/SPC, process capability and error proofing as a minimum
• Own operational customer Quality including complaints, escapes, returns, containment, 8D/RCCA, customer metrics and execution of corrective action commitment
• Lead customer Product quality responses, coordinating and engaging customer representatives as appropriate
• Manage supplier Product Quality, including risk classification, surveillance, SCAR, RCCA effectiveness and supplier development
• Monitor and improve operational nonconformance performance including NCR ageing, containment, MRB Quality representation, recurrence analysis and action effectiveness
• Embed QE in NPI/APQP, product/process change, supplier readiness, FAIR readiness and production readiness
• Advocate the quality principle: Production owns manufacture of conforming product; Engineering retains responsibility for design and authorised technical disposition
• Coordinate operational priorities with Inspection and FAIR in collaboration with Quality Manager
• Escalate significant product conformity, customer, supplier, regulatory or safety risks to the Quality Manager
• Delegate for Quality Manager as appropriate
• Support company initiatives to reinforce company values and improve employee capability
• Maintain confidentiality of employee, training and business information
• Perform other tasks as required
• Ensure safe working practices and conditions exist within the QE operating environment
• Prioritise resources to ensure that business goals are met
• Support setting of departmental objectives and KPI, review and assess ongoing performance
• Active participation and promotion of daily Tiered Accountability for escalation and support
• Enable and leverage continuous improvement initiatives with support functions to drive performance gains
• Ensure trained resource is available to meet workload and regularly assess workforce competencies
• Provide day-to-day management of the team, including attendance and performance oversight
• Manage team development through clear training plans and objectives
• Performance manage team

Skills

Strong communication

Leadership of QE

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Quality improvement

Education

HNC/HND in Engineering or Quality

Degree in Engineering or Quality (Desirable)

Tools

MS Office 365

Excel

PowerPoint

Visio

Outlook

Job description

Porvair Filtration Group is seeking a Lead Product Quality and Quality Engineering professional to oversee QE across the complete product lifecycle—from supplier qualification and NPI through serial manufacture, to customer experience. The role focuses on preventing defects, improving process capability, and reducing cost of poor quality with a strong emphasis on RCCA, PFMEA, and APQP.

You will drive quality performance, coordinate with Quality Manager and wider teams, manage supplier quality,