QA Manager

Job Title: QA Manager

Location: Blackpool

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

About Us:

Glasdon UK Limited is part of the Glasdon Group with companies in Europe and the United States and is a market leader in the design, marketing, and supply of environmental and safety products.

About The Role:

Are you looking for an exciting, challenging and rewarding long-term career opportunity?

Can you develop and implement processes to ensure the delivery of high-quality products?

The design and supply of award-winning, high-quality products is fundamental to our 65-year success at Glasdon UK Limited. To further support our "Quality by Design" mantra, Glasdon UK Limited are looking to recruit a Quality Assurance Manager to assist with all aspects of the QA Department.

The department is crucial to ensuring that the high levels of quality demanded from all our market leading products is maintained. To protect the highly regarded reputation of the Company, it is important to maintain the quality of all our products, which include street furniture, recycling products, road safety equipment, winter safety products, water safety products, cycle shelters and modular buildings.

This is an excellent opportunity for a QA professional, passionate about sustainability, to drive product excellence and support our commitment to environmental sustainability.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• General day to day management of a team within a busy QA Department
• Manage and implement Total Quality Management initiatives and strategies throughout the entire supply chain
• Maintain, develop and implement robust quality assurance processes aligned with technical specifications and ISO accreditations
• Ensure stringent compliance with evolving environmental and health & safety regulations
• Conduct quality inspections, testing of incoming stock and audits throughout the production cycle
• Oversee environmental stress testing, accelerated aging tests and performance evaluations
• Analyse and interpret product quality data and investigate defects to drive corrective actions
• Audit, develop and support a network of new and existing suppliers throughout the UK and worldwide to align with our UN Sustainability Development Goals
• Work collaboratively with various stakeholders throughout the in-house supply chain, including the company's Design team through the entire lifecycle of new products
• Maintain accurate and extensive technical files, quality records and compliance documentation

About You:

• Degree in Engineering, Science, Quality Management, or related technical field
• Commercial experience of progressive QA and quality control
• Excellent IT, literacy, numerical and analytical skills
• A confident, pro-active individual with good communication skills
• A proven record of managing people or a desire to develop supervisory and managerial skills
• Familiar with TQM, ISO 14001:2015 / 9001:2015, ESG, UN Sustainable Development Goals, environmental regulations, safety standards and supplier auditing
• Excellent attention to detail
• Valid UK Driving Licence (Essential)

Benefits:

• A competitive commencing salary
• 33 days paid holiday
• Flexible Working Pattern
• A comprehensive training programmes
• Company final salary pension scheme after a minimum of two years' service
• Life insurance after a minimum of two years' service
• Pension through NEST within 3 months of start date
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Long service awards
• Private health insurance scheme after a minimum of one year's service
• Subsidised on-site Café
• Team building days
• Paid charity days

Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of: Product Design, Manufacturing, Engineering, CAD, Tooling, Supplier Management, Process Planning, Production, Warehousing, Environmental Awareness, Product Life Cycle, Total Quality Management (TQM), Quality Management, Software, MS Office, Excel, .NET, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, Auditing, FSC, British Standards, BS, Quality Control, Outlook, Microsoft, Science, Audits, Six Sigma, Lean and Kaizen may also be considered for this role.

The Glasdon Group Limited is an equal opportunities employer and Living Wage Accredited.