Lead Quality Engineer

Step into a rewarding opportunity as a Lead Quality Engineer, where process thinking meets real-world impact. This Lead Quality role plays a pivotal part in shaping a robust quality management system, strengthening assurance across the business, and ensuring customer, regulatory, and AS/EN9100 expectations are built into day-to-day operations. If quality leadership, practical controls, and continuous improvement excite, the Quality Lead position is ready to meet your ambition.What You Will Do:• Define, implement and maintain the quality management system framework and governance arrangements.• Embed customer, regulatory, AS/EN9100 and IATF 16949 requirements into business processes.• Lead and improve internal audits, and support external audit activity with confidence and clarity.• Drive document control and manage changes to the management system to keep standards effective and current.• Analyse process performance data to identify root causes, remove friction, and promote sustainable improvement.• Collaborate across HSE and IT to align and develop an integrated management system approach.What You Will Bring:• A degree, HNC/HND, or equivalent experience in engineering, manufacturing, quality, or a related discipline.• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001, with AS9100 and/or IATF 16949 experience as a real advantage.• Proven experience developing management systems in a manufacturing environment, including process mapping, risk assessment and effective process control.• ..... full job details .....