Salary: £43,000 - £47,000 plus benefits

Ricardo’s Performance Products division are seeking a QMS & Compliance Lead to sustain and develop Quality Management System in line with industry standards (including: IATF16949, ISO14001 & ISO 9001), accreditation requirements and business requirements across our organisation.

Key accountabilities

• To supervise, lead, and coach the QMS & Compliance team to achieve quality management system targets for our customer and business goals
• Monitor, control, and improve the quality and effectiveness of all processes throughout the Powertrain Assembly business.
• Manage the audit program to ensure that all non-conformances raised are corrected and verified.
• Embed a culture of process adherence, continuous improvement, and quality accountability throughout the company.
• Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on the QMS.
• Be a main point of contact for external bodies on all matters relating to registration.
• Ensure that the necessary systems and procedures are in place to satisfy all customer requirements and audits.
• Introduce new systems and procedures.
• Train others in all aspects of the QMS and application of procedures.
• Undertake regular internal and process audits of the QMS
• Develop, implement, and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) for each area of responsibility.
• Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports.
• Oversee the updating and reporting of the management scorecard, and Chair QMS review meetings.

Technical skills, experience, and knowledge

• Automotive Quality Management System Auditing experience and managing audit programs.
• Experience of the implementation of improvement projects in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Excellent organisational and follow-up skills.
• Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making.
• Commercially aware

Desirable

• Relevant engineering degree, equivalent qualification.
• Knowledge / experience of 5S / LEAN / Six Sigma processes.
• Knowledge of Health, Safety Regulations.
• Experience of APQP processes.
• Knowledge of geometric dimensioning & tolerancing.
• Full driving license.

Behaviours

• Consistently promotes high standards through personal example.
• Good listener / communicator.
• Team player, and able to work under own initiative.
• Tenacity, resilience, and focus.

Working with Ricardo

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Wellbeing and work life balance

Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programs and policies that support individuals including flexible working, careers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance program.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.

Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.