Strategic QA Leader, Underwater Systems (Hybrid)

Thales Group; East Staffordshire; Híbrido; GBP 90 000 - 135 000; Tempo integral

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Resumo da oferta

Thales Group seeks a Head of Quality to lead Quality Assurance across its Underwater Systems (UWS) business in the UK. The role drives quality strategy, governance, and continuous improvement across bids, projects, design, qualification, and manufacturing lifecycles while managing QA budgets and the QMS.

The successful candidate will lead multi-site teams, ensure customer requirements are embedded, and report to senior leadership.

Qualificações

• Proven experience in a senior Quality Management leadership role.
• Experience leading, developing, and coaching professional teams and people leaders.
• Background in a fast-paced engineering, design, development, or manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasting, and reporting.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive quality improvement and embed a culture of continuous improvement.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the functional team across three key sites to deliver all aspects of Quality Assurance within bids, projects, design and development lifecycles, system validation, supply chain, manufacturing, and customer acceptance across all domain programmes.
• Lead the team to ensure consistent application of governance that upholds quality standards across all process gates, milestones, and lifecycle events, including those attended by customers on-site and off-site.
• Implement and ensure the application of the Quality Policy and adherence to, and governance of, the organisation's QMS, championing its benefits.
• Represent Quality Assurance within senior leadership reviews, presenting material as appropriate to meet the needs of the business and functional strategy.
• Ensure functional attendance at formal project reviews and the provision of independent Quality reporting to senior programme stakeholders.
• Ensure customer requirements are understood, embedded, and delivered, with customer needs and perspectives considered throughout delivery.
• Ensure effective escalation of quality issues and use of alerting and veto processes for major quality system breakdowns, ensuring actions are taken at the appropriate leadership levels.
• Drive Quality Assurance forward within the domain by delivering a strategy and roadmap to achieve continuous improvement. Support UK Quality Performance Plans through robust implementation of initiatives.
• Optimise competitiveness in programmes through risk-based Quality Assurance.
• Manage accreditations and certifications as appropriate to the needs of the domain.
• Ensure the domain quality team can deliver its objectives by maintaining the appropriate skills, capabilities, and resources across the team. Support the development and growth of all team members.
• Measure customer satisfaction and capture and address customer complaints, compliments, and issues, including leadership of the domain elements of the UK Customer Satisfaction Network, as well as measurement and reporting of associated KPIs

Conhecimentos

Senior QA leadership

Team leadership

Budget management

Quality governance

Stakeholder management

Strategic quality planning

Problem solving

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Thales Group seeks a Head of Quality to lead Quality Assurance across its Underwater Systems (UWS) business in the UK. The role drives quality strategy, governance, and continuous improvement across bids, projects, design, qualification, and manufacturing lifecycles while managing QA budgets and the QMS.

The successful candidate will lead multi-site teams, ensure customer requirements are embedded, and report to senior leadership.