Senior QMS & Compliance Leader

Dana; Birmingham; Híbrido; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Dana Canada Corp. in Birmingham is seeking a senior Quality Systems leader to govern and continually improve the Integrated Management System, ensuring compliance with IATF 16949, VDA 6.3, and TISAX.

You will drive governance, audits, and business process excellence while partnering with customers and senior leaders to boost performance and satisfaction. The role demands strategic leadership, risk management, and hands‑on experience with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to reduce COPQ and

Qualificações

• Degree in engineering, manufacturing, quality management or related discipline.
• IATF 16949 Lead Auditor qualification is required.
• Proven experience managing Quality Management Systems in high‑volume manufacturing.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain compliance with IATF 16949, VDA 6.3, TISAX and customer‑specific requirements.
• Lead management review activities and quality system performance reporting.
• Maintain control of procedures, standards, policies and quality records.
• Ensure quality objectives are deployed and monitored across the organisation.
• Develop and manage the annual audit programme.
• Lead certification body, customer and corporate audits.
• Verify effective closure of non‑conformances.
• Report compliance status and risks to senior leadership.
• Lead site‑wide quality and compliance improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and corrective action processes.
• Drive reductions in COPQ, waste, variation and audit findings.
• Monitor KPIs (PPM, IPM, FTT, COPQ, warranty and customer scorecards).
• Support customer escalations and quality performance reviews.
• Promote customer satisfaction and proactive issue prevention.
• Lead quality system and compliance risk assessments.
• Develop mitigation plans and escalation strategies.
• Embed lessons learned across the business.
• Coach and develop employees in quality systems and auditing.

Conhecimentos

Quality management

Audits

Lean Six Sigma

Change management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Formação

Engineering/Manufacturing degree

IATF 16949 Lead Auditor

Ferramentas

MS Office

Auditing software

Descrição da vaga

Dana Canada Corp. in Birmingham is seeking a senior Quality Systems leader to govern and continually improve the Integrated Management System, ensuring compliance with IATF 16949, VDA 6.3, and TISAX.

You will drive governance, audits, and business process excellence while partnering with customers and senior leaders to boost performance and satisfaction. The role demands strategic leadership, risk management, and hands‑on experience with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to reduce COPQ and