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An excellent opportunity has arisen for a proactive and flexible individual to join the Consett Team at Airedale, part of the Modine Group as a Quality Manager reporting to the Plant Manager with a dotted line into the Head of Quality at Leeds. The role is pivotal to the success of our business in meeting and exceeding our customers’ expectations and driving a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
* This role will be key in driving down the cost of Quality at Consett and incorporate the Quality Management System (ISO9001) across the Plant, implementing and managing a ‘Quality Improvement Plan’.
* Maintaining a safe workspace and good housekeeping standards.
* Recognise the ‘Voice of the Customer’ in everything we do by contributing to a proactive and preventive quality improvement culture, underpinned by the spirit of continuous improvement.
* Develop and Manage the Quality Management System. Liaise with Leeds Quality Team to ensure synergy across sites.
* Driving down ‘Cost of Quality’ across the business including internal quality, warranty and reliability costs.
* Act as a ‘change agent’ to actively support the business with a strong focus on developing a proactive and preventive quality improvement culture and mindset across the business.
* Manage and develop the ‘CAR’ process. Ensuring that internal quality problems and customer concerns are fully investigated using recognised problem solving tools and techniques (e.g. Cause and Effect Analysis, 5 Why) to identify root cause and implement corrective and preventive actions.
* Verification of SOMs
* Strong working relationship with other departments including Manufacturing, Technical Support, Service, Product Development, Customer Service, R&D Test House, Sales and Purchasing.
* Ensuring Business & Departmental Quality reviews take place.
* Generating Customer reports related to Quality failures or concerns.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience
* Hold a higher education qualification applicable to a Quality Engineering role and/or demonstrate at least 3 years’ experience in a similar position.
* Excellent attention to detail.
* Good communicator - confidently liaising with Team Leaders and departmental managers.
* Familiarity with root cause analysis or problem solving tools e.g. FMEA and DMAIC.
* Have skills and knowledge to encourage and implement change.
* Strong IT and analytical skills.
* Positive Attitude with a ‘can do’ mindset when faced with a quality challenge.
About Airedale
Formed in the UK in 1974, Airedale is a world leader in the delivery of innovative thermal management solutions in mission critical environments like data centres.
At our heart we’re a technology company, working with huge global colocation and hyperscale clients to design, build, install and optimise precision cooling systems that operate 24/7/365 in data centres all over the world. We are engineers, we are problem solvers and we are passionate about the role that air conditioning plays in an increasingly connected world. We’re also passionate about sustainability and we’re part of the Modine group, a global organization with fiscal 2022 revenues of $2.1 billion, who’s vision is to help engineer a cleaner, healthier world.
Prospective candidates must have proof that they have the right to work in the UK.
We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not contact us regarding the position. CVs will only be accepted directly by interested candidates and no speculative CVs will be accepted