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Quality Assurance Manager - Surrey UK

Quality Assurance Manager - Surrey UK

Established 30 years ago our client is a highly successful systems engineering company and a specialist supplier of innovative open architecture solutions to the defence and civil electronics markets.
Based in Surrey with over 70 staff they are proven experts in the design, development and manufacture of hardware, software and firmware with specialist skills including:

*Project Management
*Research and Design
*Development and System Integration
*Production and Implementation
*Trials and Evaluation
*Testing and Commissioning
*Installation and Acceptance
*Integrated Logistics Support
Their services are offered from concept, research and design, to manufacture, installation, testing, commissioning and integrated logistics support and due to the ongoing success of their current projects and new workload they now require a Quality Assurance Manager.

The Position
The Quality Assurance Manager (QAM) is responsible to the Managing Director for providing overall assurance that the Company policy is being implemented with regard to work carried out in-house and work that is sub-contracted.
The QAM has the authority for establishing and documenting the Quality Management System (QMS) in conjunction with Senior Management and for monitoring its efficiency in accordance with
BS EN ISO 9001:2008 and TickIT.
Key Responsibilities
- To maintain and update the Company Quality Manual
- To audit and review the Company's operations to ensure compliance to the Quality Procedures and provide evidence of the systems effectiveness
- To ensure prompt solution of quality problems, monitoring timely completion of corrective actions, quality planning, and maintaining and filing quality records.
- To attend project product and lifecycle reviews
- To work closely with Design, Engineering and Production to ensure all required quality standards are met for both hardware and software
- To monitor sub-contractors as required to maintain Quality Integrity
- To be the authority for control and issue of Concessions, Production Permits, Certificates of Conformance and Certificates of Design
Qualifications and Experience
- Experience of working on Ministry of Defence programmes with sound knowledge of defence Quality Standards
- Working knowledge of ISO9001:2008 Quality Standard and TickIT.
- Qualified IQA Lead Auditor preferred, otherwise relevant experience of internal auditing and supplier assessment.
- Customer facing experience
- SC Cleared

Due to the nature of this position it is a legal requirement that all candidates must be able to pass Security Clearance. This means you must have been in the UK for the last 5 years and hold a British passport.
If interested and you feel you have the necessary experience for this role please forward your CV to: jenna.beard@serl.co.uk

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