Quality Director

4 weeks ago

Stockport, Stockport, United Kingdom Novanta Europe Gmbh Full time
Job Title: Quality Director

Novanta Europe Gmbh is seeking a highly skilled Quality Director to lead our global quality system. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing a quality vision that drives customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and growth.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Represent Novanta Europe Gmbh in addressing key customer quality issues, ensuring effective communication and complete problem resolution.
  • Develop and implement a quality organisation structure that supports strategic initiatives and organic growth.
  • Ensure that procedures for process control, process improvement, test, and inspection exist and are followed.
  • Train and manage root-cause analysis and other problem-solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements.
  • Establish collection and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect the improvement of product quality.
  • Ensure that customer product specifications are analysed to establish efficient, cost-effective requirements for ease of manufacture and reproducibility.
  • Lead the Supplier Management Program as Chair of the Supplier Management Board (SMB), ensuring advancement of supply chain quality.
  • Oversee calibration and testing programs.
  • Ensure that both internal and external quality audits are performed professionally and necessary follow-up actions are completed on time.
  • Maintain and achieve ISO certifications (9001, 14001, 45000) for acquisitions.
  • Educate and train all employees on their impact on the quality management system.
  • Interact with customers to identify opportunities to improve quality and establish feedback with manufacturing and development colleagues.
  • Drive metrics (process capability, control charts, measurement quality) for monitoring system effectiveness and to enable managers to make sound product quality decisions.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or manufacturing engineering required. Master's degree preferred.
  • Proven experience in QA system implementation and management, with Quality or Operations Management experience in a medium-size manufacturing environment preferred.
  • Proven track record of leveraging continuous improvement and Kaizen methodologies to deliver business results.
  • Strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Travel Requirements:

UK and international business travel as required by the role.

Novanta Europe Gmbh is an inclusive employer and wants to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the application process, interview process, and whilst at work. We therefore encourage you to inform your Talent Acquisition Partner of any reasonable adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.

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