Vacancy Description
Do you have experience with manufacturing?
Have you worked within a regulated environment?
Role Summary
We are seeking a skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a QHSE manager, working within operations this role will work with all areas of the manufacturing team in ensuring a good health & safety culture is built and maintained throughout the business and be responsible for deploying also the quality management system. Driving updates and changes to the system and ensuring all department managers understand requirements.
Essential Duties
• Lead driving a culture of health & safety and quality across both manufacturing sites (1 time a month travel to South Wales)
• Effectively lead and deploy the quality team (1 x Senior Quality Engineer & 2x Quality Engineers) to achieve quality KPI targets.
• Reporting of accidents and incidents and supporting staff in carrying out accident investigations.
• Ensure the business QMS is up to date and being followed by departments.
• Key contact for customer and external body complaints and assisting / directing operations staff in their investigations.
• Carrying out toolbox talks and give guidance and direction on health & safety and quality related matters.
• Guiding department heads to help build health & safety awareness within their departments.
• Liaise with suppliers on ongoing performance and resolution of supplier quality issues.
• Create reports on site health & safety, quality & environmental performance, for review at senior management and board level.
• Support operations director in monitoring and driving improvements to achieve health & safety, quality & environmental KPIs.
• Work with operations staff to carry out health and safety risk assessments of on site processes.
• Work as part of the team producing FMEAs, risk management plans and risk management reports.
• Liaise with group compliance staff to ensure all product regulatory requirements are met.
• Lead the internal auditing team for all manufacturing sites and ensure completion of the audit schedule.
• Liaise with suppliers on PPAP requirements and new product introduction.
• Support operations teams in creation of SOPs.
• Support in producing company literature (instructions for use etc.).
• Liaise with R&D department in the testing of new products.
Education & Experience (Knowledge & Skills)
- Minimum of 5 years' health & safety, quality & QMS experience required.
- Experience of working in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001 (ISO13485 & ISO 14001 would be desirable)
- Excellent quality systems knowledge Internal auditing qualified (minimum ISO 9001)
- Experience within Manufacturing
- NEBOSH or IOSH qualified
- Experience working in a HSE responsible role, liaising with suppliers on complaints and PPAP submissions, experience of implementation of QMS within a business and problem-solving techniques. (8D, 5 Whys, Ishikawa etc.)
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