Quality Manager

Quality Managers

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £47,690 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

AWE is currently recruiting for Quality Managers. We have a number of exciting opportunities across our Quality function, and we are looking for experienced Quality Managers who have a background within any of the following disciplines;

• Production
• Science
• Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Project Management

As Quality Manager you will lead the Quality team in support of development of staff, the expansion of Quality data and improvements in overall Quality performance. This will be done within an exciting work environment looking to build a future ready Quality capability which builds quality in from the start.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have some of the following:

• Working knowledge of Quality Management Systems and related standards (e.g. Health & Safety, Environment, Security).
• Understanding of improvement techniques, such as Lean, Six Sigma, RLI, etc.
• Excellent inter-personal / negotiation / communication skills.
• Basic Project Management or in-depth knowledge of specialist subject.
• Customer satisfaction and the tools and processes utilised in measuring business performance and delivery.
• Good understanding of configuration and change management techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading subject matter expertise in the fields pertinent to their role within Quality.
• Lead and develop a technical multi-functional team to resolve problems when required by the area they represent.
• Plan and deliver technical assessments using appropriate methodologies and contributing to capability development.
• Plan and implement development of tools, techniques, and validation methods to ensure Right First-Time methodology.
• Plan and participation in improvement activities, and completion of Quality analysis, where appropriate.
• Engagement with relevant stakeholders across AWE, the UK, and our international partners in pursuit of continuous improvement.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

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