Quality Excellence Leader
1 week ago
Job Overview
We are seeking a Quality Excellence Leader to join our team at Leonardo, where you will play a critical role in driving world-class production and business growth.
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned quality professional to lead, develop, and improve the quality of people, processes, culture, safety, and customer experience within our organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a business area quality management team, responsible for effective leadership, planning, and communication of objectives.
- Support the Head of Quality, Head of Manufacturing Engineering (inc. Ops leadership), and Business Area leadership (Sector level Vice President) in identifying sector and program risks, threats, and opportunities.
- Agree Project Assurance Plans (PAP) at both the Program and Project level, defining project assurance activities aligned to risk, opportunity, and improvement.
- Recognized as an expert in quality, operations, operations framework, manufacturing, leadership principles, and business processes such as finances.
- People management & leadership skills, including effective performance and change management skills (change agent).
- Experienced in maturity review at the highest level.
- Extensive experience of assessing a lifecycle deliverable, ensuring results and actions are implemented.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of all phases of the product lifecycle and the associated processes.
- NPI / MRL quality experience bringing new electro-mechanical products to market.
- Expert in influencing and negotiating with others using facts, proposals, data, and analysis to support line of reasoning.
- Communicate quality at a leadership level in a non-technical influencing way.
- Evidence of leadership of capability and process development within quality engineering and ability to implement change.
- Ability to partner effectively with operations, project teams, customers, and suppliers.
- Success in mentoring and coaching in order to grow Quality excellence within the business.
- Experienced in reducing TQNQ and implementation of a root cause and corrective action culture positively affecting business.
What We Offer
We offer a competitive salary of $140,000 - $160,000 per annum, a company-funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers.
Benefits
- Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options.
- Company-funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology, and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance).
- Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year.
- Pension: Award-winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution)
- Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support, and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion.
- Lifestyle: Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme.
- Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera.
- Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member.
- Bonus: Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below.
Why Choose Us?
At Leonardo, we value our employees' contributions and provide opportunities for growth and development. Join us and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of quality excellence.
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