Title : Quality Assurance Manager
Location : Airport Service Rd, Portsmouth PO3 5PE, United Kingdom
Reports to : Quality Assurance Director
About us
F.P.T. Industries Ltd is an aerospace manufacturing facility part of the DART Aerospace Group. Here we are passionate about delivering quality technologies across a number of safety-orientated products in commercial and defense aerospace sectors. With a rich history in manufacturing excellence, we pride ourselves on delivering high standards of service across all of our site-based disciplines from the valued manufacturing of the products to the support functions, which enable our success. We embody our robust organizational values in our daily activities in order to maintain and flourish within an engaged workplace culture.
At DART Aerospace we strive to become the leader in aerospace mission critical equipment, related services and replacement part and tools. We define the future of safety enhancing and cost effective equipment in an evolving industry. Should you feel ‘Mission Ready’ – submit your application today!
Responsibilities
- Oversee the overall quality management system performance of the Portsmouth facility.
- Ensuring the quality management system is continuously improving.
- Execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals.
- Auditing of quality system annually to ensure that manual and procedures are current and being followed.
- Ensuring that training and inspection equipment are sufficient for the tasks to be performed. • Initiating action to prevent NC occurrence of product, process or quality system nonconformities.
- Ensuring that the quality system is established, implemented, and maintained in accordance with AS9100 Rev. D.
- Interfacing with customer quality representatives
- Ensure a high level of internal and external customer/ Regularity communication
- Investigate, determine root cause, initiate permanent corrective action and document customer issues and escapes as they arise (e.g., RCCA, problem solving, PFMEA, 5 why, etc.).
- Assess and implement the appropriate data analysis, quality methods, inspection criteria and procedures to ensure the technical integrity of our quality processes and results.
- Supports and drives supplier development, Approval and Performance, Lead Internal & External aerospace quality compliance audits.
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in engineering, quality management or a related field (desirable – not essential)
- Experience as a quality manager from within the engineering, aerospace, automotive sectors is desirable.
- Expertise in problem solving through Lean Six Sigma and other quality techniques required to identify route causes and engage sustainable solutions to issues presented.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Prior experience managing a team of quality professionals
- Proficient in Microsoft outlook, excel, word and PowerPoint packages
- Planning and organizational skills
- Experience leading aerospace/engineering compliance audits
- Advanced knowledge of applicable quality standards such as AS 9100 & ISO 9001
- Demonstrable experience of effective workforce and people planning
Working Hours
- 07:30 -16:15: Monday-Thursday
- 07:30-16:00: Fridays
- (Every other Friday is a non-working day)
Compensation & Benefits
- Generous Salary Sacrifice Pension Provision
- Competitive Company Sick Pay Entitlement
- 9 Day working Fortnight
- Access to Retail Vouchers Via Perks at work
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Health 365 Access 24/7 Care when you need it most via spectrum life
- Cycle to Work Scheme supplied by Blackhawk Network