Job Title: Quality Inspection Manager
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £39,000 - £43,000 per annum
We are currently recruiting for a Quality Inspection Manager working for a large engineering company for a permanent position based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Responsible for leading a team of Quality Control Inspectors in performing the inspection of products and reporting of defects/non-conformities. To liaise with supervisors, suppliers and clients on investigating available data to
determine opportunities for continuous improvement to systems and processes and reporting on statistical data gathered.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead the overall quality performance process and drive quality process outcomes through the effective management of Quality Control Inspectors in performing pre and post cast checks.
- Develop, monitor and refine quality performance process; partner with key stakeholders to track and trend Key Performance Indicators.
- Study existing operations and processes to identify opportunities to drive out waste and improve profitability.
- Drive containment, root cause determination, short-term and long-term corrective action, and preventive action ongoing basis.
- Manage all development and coaching for your team on root cause identification and appropriate closed-loop corrective and preventive action and in the use of quality improvement tools such as PDCA, Six Sigma, Problem Solving, Quality Tools, etc.
- Deliver relevant training and coaching, to ensure employees are appropriately educated throughout the business.
- Report overall quality performance to the Head of Quality and key stakeholders.
- Communicate critical issues in a timely manner.
- Supervise team members, providing feedback where necessary, conducting performance reviews and ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.
- Ensure that all team members and new starters fully understanding of the duties they are expected to perform, and that they fully understand their responsibilities to work safely.
- Manage staffing rosters to ensure an optimum staffing complement to meet workload demands, including the pre-authorisation of overtime working where applicable.
- Manage attendance and timekeeping and take initial action in cases of poor timekeeping and unauthorised absence.
- Manage sickness absence, including taking sickness reporting calls and dealing with returns from short-term sickness absence, and support the management of long-term sickness absence cases.
Qualifications & Training:
- Appropriate quality-related qualification e.g. CQI
- Degree or other equivalent higher education qualification preferred but not essential.
- MS Office and strong computer skills.
- IOSH Certificate in Managing Safely.
- VFL Training.
- First Aid Training (Emergency Responder).
- Train the Trainer programme.
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