QA Head - Plastic & Rubber Industry

Candidates who are in Plastic and Rubber industries only please apply.

Job Purpose:

1. Strategic and tactical responsibility for implementing Quality strategy and strategic operational goals to exceed customer expectations for product quality, cost and delivery, optimizing production quality levels and supporting operational excellence.

2. Lead and deploy the Quality Management system, striving for best in class products and business practices to deliver to the customer's expectations, managing teams and projects across the business. Provide clear leadership and vision, inspire and motivate staff to achieve excellence and mentor them as they develop new skills.

Key Responsibilities:

- Strategy and Development

- General and Task Management

- People Management

- Financial Budget & Control

Skills and Attributes

1. Proven leadership and management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development

2. Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key stakeholders and suppliers

3. Strong and confident negotiator with the ability to negotiate at all levels

4. Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills

5. Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities

6. Results orientated with ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines

7. Commercially and financially astute with experience of managing budgets

8. Technical mindset

9. An appreciation of and an ability to positively resolve issues arising from different cultures

Qualifications and Experience Levels

1. Graduate Mechanical Engineer or Equivalent

2. Expo sure to World class system like SPC, ISO 14001:2015 & ISO 45001:2018 /IATF 16949 :2016

3. Appropriate qualification in quality management

4. Considerable and diverse demonstrable experience of leading a quality function with a proven track record in strategic quality leadership delivering effective quality strategies, policies, processes and systems

5. Ability to add value, reduce costs and make business improvements

6. Proven project management and quality experience

7. Experience of operating and influencing at a strategic level

8. Knowledge and technical understanding of automotive processes, components and manufacturing techniques