Quality Manager
Holt Engineering
Christchurch, Dorset
Quality Manager salary: £50,000 – £55,000
Working Week: 4-day week
Please note: only applicants with the full-time, permanent right to work in the UK will be considered.
Quality Manager Overview:
- Own AS9100 quality activity on site and keep audits controlled and stress-free
- Support a second site one day per week as it develops from ISO 9001 toward AS9100
- Drive internal rejects down through proper RCA, 8D discipline and follow-through
- Stay close to the shop floor, supporting machinists and inspectors day to day
- Keep the QMS lean and effective, improving discipline rather than rebuilding it
- Possibility of working a 4-day week
This Quality Manager role reports to the General Manager and takes ownership of quality across a Christchurch-based precision engineering business, with support to a second site around one day per week. The Quality Manager will maintain AS9100, support inspection activity, sign off FAIRs, lead audits, and be the first point of contact for quality questions from machinists and inspectors. The QMS has already been simplified, so this Quality Manager position is about maintaining standards, improving follow-through and tightening control of internal rejects and day-to-day quality issues.
Day-to-day responsibilities of a Quality Manager
- Maintain AS9100 compliance, audit readiness and day-to-day QMS control as the Quality Manager
- Support the second site’s quality activity and help progress from ISO 9001 toward AS9100
- Lead internal, customer and external audits, ensuring actions close properly and stay closed
- Run internal quality issue control: NCRs, internal rejects, concessions, RCCA and 8D closure
- Review and sign off FAIR packs and support shop floor understanding of requirements
- Support and guide the inspection team on priorities, queries and technical challenges
- Work hands-on with machinists and production to resolve quality problems quickly and properly
- Track repeat issues and drive corrective actions through to completion, not partial fixes
- Maintain key quality records and inspection documentation without unnecessary paperwork
- Support improvement activity as it develops, including potential future SPC use
- Hands-on Quality Manager background in a manufacturing environment where you are close to production
- AS9100 involvement is essential for this Quality Manager role
- Comfortable owning FAIRs, audits, internal rejects, 8D and RCA from start to finish
- Experience managing or supporting an inspection function in a smaller team setting
- Practical and approachable style, able to support machinists and inspectors without being abrasive
- Strong attention to detail and a habit of following issues through properly
- Able to maintain and improve an existing QMS rather than needing to rebuild everything
- Experience supporting a move from ISO 9001 toward AS9100
- SPC exposure or interest in introducing it over time
- Supplier quality exposure (especially treatments, paint or material supply)
- Broader quality planning exposure such as FMEA or NPI support
What’s on offer - Quality Manager
Quality Manager salary: £50,000 – £55,000
A hands-on Quality Manager role in a smaller precision engineering environment where you can see the impact of your work quickly.
Good variety across QMS control, audits, FAIRs, inspection support, internal rejects and improvement activity.
A role that values practical support, attention to detail and consistent follow-through, not ego.
How to apply for the Quality Manager position
If you’re interested in this Quality Manager role, get in touch to run through the role.
Call or message Hayden at Holt Engineering on (phone number removed).
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