Quality & EHS Manager na Gooch & Housego Pheonix UK

Description

LOCATION - St Asaph with occasional travel to other sites

REPORTING TO - Director of Global Quality

ROLE

To be a member of the site leadership team taking responsibility for managing the Business Management System across the site whilst ensuring that processes and manufactured products fully comply with and exceed demanding regulatory/customer expectations.

QUALIFICATIONS

Degree level Engineering qualification preferred but not essential

MANDATORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Adherence to all Company policies, management systems and standard operational procedures, including legal responsibilities in relation to Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality
• Working positively to develop and foster good working relationships with colleagues and contracted personnel in order to maintain a culture of mutual respect and dignity
• Promote and display the G&H values: Customer focus, Integrity, Action, Unity, Precision

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overall responsibility for the Business Management Manual and associated procedures.
• To support implementation of the Company’s Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality policies and enable compliance to relevant procedures.
• Overall responsibility for the Environmental and Health and Safety Management system and associated procedures. First responder for accident investigation.
• Continually evolve best working practices and procedures to deliver ISO9001 and Environmental excellence and certification.
• Manages Quality customer interface to proactively assure requirements are understood and satisfied, including assisting in complaint resolution and root cause and corrective action determination.
• Analyses organizational quality metrics and performs managerial reviews to evaluate results and recommend action plans to close gaps at an operational level.
• Participates in, and may lead, the auditing of internal Business Management Systems including ownership of the schedule.
• Leads and develops the Quality Assurance and Control structure capable of supporting both the tactical and strategic business plans and initiatives.
• Ensures quality organisation support to the Global Supplier Quality team in the management of new and existing supply chains.
• Identifies and drives improvement opportunities across multi-functional teams to continually improve the business performance measures
• Champion root cause analysis and preventative actions.
• Actively support New Product Development activities. 
• Provide analysis and regular tracking of issues related to material non-conformance.
• Supporting the NPD/NPI gate review activities.
• Management of calibrated equipment.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and maintain accurate documentation for audits.
• Reports EHS metrics and performs accident investigation to evaluate results and recommend action plans to close gaps at an operational level.
• Participates in, and lead, the implementation and management of ISO14001 Systems including ownership of the audit schedule.
• Management of safety equipment and statutory inspections.

PERFORMANCE MEASURES

• On Time Delivery

• Customer returns

• Cost of Poor Quality

• Customer Satisfaction

• Supplier related problems

• Internal audit schedule adherence

• Timely reporting of Sustainability Metrics

• Spot it/near miss accident reporting

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Self-driven with the ability to set own priorities and work independently

• Challenging, but with high level of emotional intelligence

• Attention to detail with excellent analytical skills

• Strong influencing, communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills

• Change agent

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Familiarisation with ISO9001 and ISO14001 accredited management systems is essential.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within a quality management role working in the aerospace and defence sector.

• Lead or Internal Auditor recognised certification is essential.

• Experience with co-ordinating multi-functional teams in delivering business objectives/initiatives.

• Experience within a safety and environmental Management 

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of quality assurance and continuous improvement methods, approaches, and tools, including strategic management.

• Demonstrated ability to drive results in Quality and continuous improvement areas.

• Mature Customer focused approach handling issues with urgency.

• Experience in implementing process improvements using structured problem solving methodologies.

• Experienced in the use of Microsoft office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint essential 

Notes: This job description is not intended to be exhaustive in every respect, but rather to clearly define the fundamental purpose, responsibilities and dimensions for the role. Therefore, this job description does not describe any individual role holder. In addition to the contents of this job description, employees are expected to undertake all other reasonable and related tasks allocated by their line manager

The Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunity or practices on the grounds of gender, race, religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national laws under which the Company operates.

 Potential candidates should be aware that many of the employment roles at Gooch & Housego are subject to government security and export control restrictions.  These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities that you may have previously held and your place of birth, could restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.

All UK applicants must, as a minimum, be able to successfully complete security vetting to the UK government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard, which includes a criminal record check being performed. Many roles may also require higher levels of security vetting to be completed, where applicants must typically have been continuously resident within the UK for the past five to ten years.