Quality Improvement & Capability Manager

Operating within the Quality Excellence function, you will lead the shift toward a proactive, "right-first-time" culture. We are looking for a coach and facilitator to tackle complex challenges, using FMEA and DMAIC methodologies to empower our teams and ensure zero-defect excellence across our entire product portfolio. This is a genuinely exciting chance for a determined individual to drive real change while pursuing their own career growth.

As a time-served Quality professional, you will bridge the gap between product design and world-class manufacturing. You will own the Product Risk Mitigation strategy—utilising DFMEA to 'design out' failures, PFMEAs/Control Plans to ensure operational excellence, and DMAIC cycles to drive continuous improvement in production yields. Your goal is simple: zero-defect product launches built on a foundation of proactive quality and robust process controls.

Risk Mitigation: Facilitate workshops and coach cross-functional teams on DFMEA and PFMEA best practices to ensure design and process risks are identified and eliminated early in the project lifecycle.

Design-to-Production Link: Guide the seamless transfer of "Special Characteristics" and Severity ratings from design intent into practical, robust manufacturing Control Plans and realistic measurement methods.

Process Stability & Coaching: Mentor teams through DMAIC cycles to stabilise production, improve yields, and reduce variation from the launch phase throughout the entire product lifecycle using MSA and SPC.

Problem Solving & Lessons Learned : Lead advanced problem-solving frameworks (FRACAS, 8D) and coach teams to feed root-cause findings back into FMEAs and Control Plans, maintaining them as "living documents."

Standards & Audit Compliance : Act as the Quality Excellence subject matter expert for risk-related audits, ensuring strict compliance with EN9100, ISO 9001, AS9145 (APQP/PPAP), and applicable Defence/Military standards (Def Stan / MIL-STD).

Engineering Prioritisation: Utilise Action Priority (AP) logic to help engineering teams objectively prioritise engineering changes, risk mitigations, and validation testing for high-risk items.