Sub-Contract Quality Team Leader

Sub Contract Quality Team Leader

Salary £48,000DOE + Relocation Package

Newquay, Cornwall

A world-class organisation whom provide innovative filtration solutions across the world are seeking for a Sub-Contract Quality team Leader to lead the sub-contract Quality Engineering team in providing support for new production, process improvement, complaint response process and defect reduction. Their manufacturing facility has been named their Global Centre of Excellence for the design, manufacture and supply of medical related filtration solutions.

The suitable candidate will:

Have management skills and experience
Recognised and appropriate degree and subsequent experience
Be Six Sigma qualified
Have experience of working within ISO 13485/FDA Part 820 regulated manufacturing environment
Be an effective communicator, verbally and in written form
Have coaching, mentoring and motivation skills and experience
Knowledge of quality tools e.g. Discipline investigations, 5 Why, 7 Step, Ishikawa diagrams. SPC, FMEA, Pareto analysis, parts and process capability studies
Be able to investigate and solve complex issues and define root cause using good analytical skills and pay attention to detail
Have knowledge of Microsoft Office applications such as: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, and Word. Knowledge of Quality Analysis or Minitab also.
Be able to organise and coordinate numerous projects simultaneously
Have the ability to work in a team orientated way towards problem resolution and continuous improvement
Have the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines
Be able to make reasoned and objective decisions when necessaryMajor Responsibilities

Manage complaint response process with subcontractors to ensure timely and relevant responses and corrective actions.
Ensure sub contract non-conformance reporting/escalation system operates effectively.
Coordination and reporting of relevant failure investigations and subsequent corrective and preventive actions and reviewing effectiveness of these.
Ensure non-conformances are trended and analysed to establish priorities and identify common threads aimed at a continuous reduction in complaints and non-conformance occurrences via process improvements.
Ensure required processes, practices and standards in production, quality control and related areas are validated.
Keep abreast of development of standards to ensure techniques and practices are kept up to date; recommend changes as required.
Preparation of miscellaneous documentation/reports.
Support product development/transfer activities.
Review and develop procedures relevant to departmental operations.
Oversee customer audits and conduct audits of subcontractors and/or suppliers.
Performance management – monitoring of performance indicators relevant to the role.
QA KPI reporting for the subcontract sites.